Second Blessing before Shema

Second Blessing before Shema

[With] An everlasting love You loved the House of Israel, Your people. You taught us Torah and commandments, statutes and laws. Therefore, Adonoy, our God, when we lie down and when we rise, we will discuss Your statutes, and rejoice in the words of Your Torah and in Your commandments forever. For they are our life and they lengthen our days, and on them we will meditate day and night. [May] Your love never be removed from us. Blessed are You, Adonoy, Who loves His people Israel.

This prayer is an abbreviated form of the אהבה רבה prayer in the morning service. It thanks God for the sacred gift of Divine Revelation that He granted Israel. It declares that Torah alone is the eternal heritage of the Jewish people and that all other goods and gifts of life are transitory.—S.R. Hirsch

Library

• Ashkenaz · Shabbat · Maariv · Blessings of the Shema · Second Blessing before Shema

Where it comes in the siddur

• Comes after: First Blessing before Shema
• Followed by: Shema
• Part 2 of 7 in Blessings of the Shema
• The same text in Hebrew: אהבת עולם

Texts and sources

Every prayer text in Amidora comes from openly licensed editions published on Sefaria. Only editions released under CC-BY, CC0 or the public domain are included.

• Metsudah Siddur, Avrohom Davis, 1981 — CC-BY, via Sefaria
• Translation based on the Metsudah linear siddur, by Avrohom Davis, 1981 · CC-BY
• https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH002211687