B"H
Voice of Concern
Prayer is an expression that modifies restraint of mobility in
the aura of silence; breath and heartbeat working harmo niously
to exert thought waves that characterizes the calm of eternity.
Prayer; by definition, is where the mind escapes from transient
thought. By virtue of the principle, the brain functions only at
one focus at any specific mo ment. If we take a mo ment to stud y
the words of the Jewish prayer liturgy, we'll find phrases,
sentences, and passages of historic significance, mentative
description of miraculous occurrences. Our minds are trained to
delve into exalted commentaries that unite ou r thoughts to the
insignificance of the mo ment.
Now this incredible research leads to instruction taught in
regards to saying the Credo of Israel; She'ma Yeisroael Adon-
ay Alohe-inu Adon-ay Echad! Firstly, the ayin of She'ma has to
enunciated as a guttural sound by inhalation of breath that
passes over the vocal chords as it enters the lungs. As if gasping
for a breath to utter ahh, She'maahh! As commonly understood
by linguists; the process of speaking involves the lungs, and
throat to establish the percussion of the breath , the palate and
tongue to shape the sound wave, and the teeth and lips to modify
sounds they have depicted in terms of fricative, plosive, nasal,
and etc.
The vowel sound that couple with the yud of Yeisroael (not
to be confused with the lazy schwa prono unced yih) is cheereek
(one dot, not two) - the long ee, said by tensing the lips and
fluttering the tip of tongue. It's being said with the consonant to
follow requires an exertion of breath straight form the lungs like
the hiss of a snake, and a pause be fore pronounce ment of the "r"
consonant that begins the next syllable . Making a phoneme with
the Sein consonant is possible only if articulated verbally. The
R phoneme is said gutturally with lowered tones, which literally
empties the lungs of breath.
Afterwards, the long sounding A vowel is vocalized b y
inhalation and smoothed into L and is co mpletes the word
Yeisroael. The next four words begin with the variations of the
A vowel: Ad (short- aah), Al (middle nasal -ahh), Ad (short),
Ech (middle - ahh, but connecting to the guttural ch from the
throat (like gargling). The wind of inhaling causes the initiatio n
of sounding the A vowel of each word and with Echad, the lungs
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