While attending services Friday night for the first time since we’ve paid our own car insurance, we found out that the Shema is a perfect haiku. Count the 5-7-5 syllable pattern for yourself:
She-ma Yis-ra-el
A-do-nay El-o-hei-nu
A-do-nay E-chad
Is it a coincidence that the most powerful yet simplest Jewish prayer fits the Japanese form of poetic perfection? It must be, but then Adonai works in mysterious ways.
(Check out some other less holy Haikus For Jews by David Bader.)
Cool. But did you know that the Viahafta is perfectly timed to Notorious B.I.G.’s “Hypnotize”???