who enacted the text to all our prayers, gave primacy to this unique clarion call of our fealty to Hashem, our Creator, the Creator of all. Indeed, it was with these words of Shema Yisrael that ...
He culminated with the Shema, a passage from Deuteronomy that serves as the signature prayer affirming the Jewish belief in one God. Along with the Jewish participants, non-Jews joined as well.