My fall semester course on Maimonides’ Principles of Faith at Lander College for Women just ended. Maimonides cites the verse of Shema Yisrael as the biblical source for his second principle, the ...

In Modern Hebrew, shama typically means “to hear,” while the other two verbs convey to listen. Yet the earlier nuance of shama persists in the word mashmaut, significance, originally, that which i ...