Bar'chu
This is the meaning of Bar'chu.
What is Let us praise?
This is when the Shema is said.
What are the morning and evening services?
This is when the Mi Chamocha was first sung.
What is once the Jews escaped from Egypt and were free?
This is the message that Oseh Shalom tells us.
What is God will make peace for all Jews.
This is the type of prayer.
What is call and response?
This is the action performed while saying the Shema.
What is covering your eyes with your hands?
This is the book of the Torah that the Mi Chamocha appears in.
What is Exodus Chapter 15 (part of the Song of the Sea)?
This is where Oseh Shalom comes from.
What is the book of Job (Job's friend says it)?
This is the reason that Bar'chu is not included in the afternoon service.
What is the Shema the is not said?
These are the special times when the Shema is said.
What are 1. Yom Kippur, and 2. before death?
This is the message of the Mi Chamocha.
What is 1. God is one of a kind, and 2. there is no one like God?
This is when Oseh Shalom is recited.
What are several different parts of the Shabat service and at the end of the Mourner's Kaddish?
This is the reason that the meaning of the Bar'chu changed from "bless" to "praise."
What are 1. all blessings come from God and 2. it would be weird if people could bless the creator of blessings?
These are the reasons that some Jews describe the Shema as the most important prayer in Judaism.
What are 1. the Shema states that God is one and God is king and 2. some Jews think that the Shema is a commandment?
This is what the Mi Chamocha celebrates.
What is having a better life and being able to make our own decisions (our lives and freedom)?
These are the types of melodies that Oseh Shalom is usually performed in.
What are 1. upbeat klezmer music, and 2. downbeat/sad music?
This is the translation for the second line of the Bar'chu.
What is "Praised is the Lord, who is [to be] praised for ever and ever?"
This is the translation of line one of the Shema.
What is "Hear O’ Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One?"
This is something meaningful that the Mi Chamocha tells us to do.
What is to dedicate ourselves to help other people become free and to make sure they have equal rights?
This is the translation of the first three lines of Oseh Shalom.
What is "He who makes peace in high places, He will make peace for us, And for all Israel?"