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Chapter six contains many important sections that correspond to essential elements of prayer: the <\/span>shema<\/span><\/em>, the first paragraph following the <\/span>shema<\/span><\/em>, and tefillin (phylacteries).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shema<\/b>: \u201cHear oh Israel, God is our God, God is one\u201d (verse 4). The opening line of the shema is the counterbalance to the first of the Ten Commandments. \u201cI am God your God.\u201d The shema is the directive from Moses to the people. It is also communal. Instead of God\u2019s introduction of self-presentation, the shema is a collective announcement and consensus among the people that God is unitary and that God is our God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The first paragraph:<\/b> \u201cYou shall love the LORD your God with all your might and all your soul and all you being\u201d (verse 5). The commandment to love God is a direct contrast to the commandment to fear God. The Meam Loez explains that one who loves God will follow God\u2019s commandments with happiness, joy, and commitment. If one only feared God, then God\u2019s commandments would become too overbearing, causing the person to flee. Ramban explains that \u201call your heart\u201d means loving God with all your emotional desire; \u201call your soul\u201d means that one must be willing to die for God; \u201call your being\u201d means that one should serve God with monetary worldly possession if necessary.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Tefillin<\/b>: \u201cBind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol<\/span> between your eyes\u201d (verse 8). The consensus is that this verse refers to the mitzvah of tefillin. The first part, \u201cbind them as a sign on your hand\u201d refers to the tefillin on the arm. The second part \u201clet them serve as a symbol between your eyes\u201d refers to the tefillin on the forehead. The actual description of the tefillin does not appear in the Torah. This leads to various counter opinions about what exactly tefillin were and what this verse means. For example, the word used for binding \u201c<\/span>totaphot<\/span><\/em>\u201d is a unique word that does not appear anywhere else in the Torah. Rashi explains that it means two in various languages. From here we learn that there are two separate boxes, one on the arm and one on the forehead. Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik explains that tefillin embodies two types of people, the thoughtful one, symbolized by the tefillin on the head, and the person of action, symbolized by the tefillin of the arm. One should strive to embody both types of people to be a person of God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Just before the Sh\u2019ma and Ve\u2019Ahavta in this chapter, we\u2019re reminded \u2013 again \u2013 of the Land flowing with milk and honey. Much has been written about this expression, which highlights its peculiarity. What is it about milk and honey?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Babylonian sage Rami Bar Yechezkel made aliya and arrived in Bnai Brak. As described in Tractate Ketubot 111, he saw goats grazing under fig trees and possibly trying to make sense of what he heard about the Promised Land throughout his own childhood, is quoted saying, \u2018Ah, says Rami Bar Yechezkel, it must be that honey from fig trees mixing with milk from the goats grazing under those trees!\u2019 His answer, if anything, just highlights how hard he worked to make the metaphor and the reality in front of him harmonize.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sforno, who lived in Italy centuries later, said that \u201cLand flowing with milk and honey\u201d means that it\u2019s ready for those who worship God to do just that, like a giant pre-paid school cafeteria for the students who are committed to learnings, \u201cso you\u2019ll make a living in this Land with no sorrow and have time for contemplation, (good) deeds, and be fruitful and multiply\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rav Uri Sharki suggests that while we usually do not eat products of non-kosher creatures, we do so in two cases: milk and honey: Honey from bees and milk \u2013 from humans. The unique gift of the Land then is its ability to be transformative; to take something that would be normally be considered \u201cimpure\u201d, non-kosher, not fit for eating and turn it into something \u201cpure\u201d, digestible, healing, sweetening and life giving.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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He taught at the Hebrew Union College (Jerusalem), The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Schechter Institute for Judaic Studies in Jerusalem, and at the Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheba, Israel. During 1993 he was Visiting Associate Professor at Yale University, and during 1996 he was the Stroum Professor of Jewish Studies and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle. During 2005, Bregman served as the Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at Harvard University and was awarded a Teaching Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He also has served as Forchheimer Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the author of The Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature: Studies in the Evolution of the Versions (Gorgias Press, 2003). 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In our chapter, with the Israelites spread out before him, Moses proclaims what has become perhaps the most well-known verse in the Hebrew Bible: \u201cHear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One\u201d (verse 4). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Since early Rabbinic times, this concise declaration of the unity of God, has served as the beginning of the Shema prayer, consisting of three biblical sections (Mishnah Berakhot 5:2), recited by observant Jews at least once every day (Shulhan Arukh, Orah Hayyim 58-70). However, Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi, under whose aegis the Mishnah was compiled in the early third-century CE, recited only the first verse of the Shema, in fulfillment of what the Rabbinic Sages referred to as the Biblical commandment of Kriyat Shema. Because the recitation of the words \u201cHear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One\u201d requires maximum kavanah<\/em> (\u201cintention\u201d), it has become customary to cover one\u2019s eyes with the right hand when declaiming them aloud (see Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot 13b, Shulhan Arukh, Orah Hayyim 61:5 with the Ba\u2019er Hetev commentary). It is also customary to then recite quietly: \"Blessed be the name of His glorious kingdom for ever and ever\" (see Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Reciting the Shema 1:4, on the basis of Babylonian Talmud, Pesahim 56a). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Midrash (Sifre Devarim 31:7, Genesis Rabbah 98:3 and parallels) understands the imperative addressed to \u201cIsrael\u201d in our verse refers to Jacob, who was renamed \u201cIsrael\u201d(Genesis 32:28, 35:9), and fathered the twelve sons who were the progenitors of the Israelite tribes (see Genesis 49:1-28): We are told that on his death-bed Jacob gathered his dispersed sons to him with the help of an angel or the Holy Spirit. He asked if there might be any disagreement among them about who is God. They answered: Listen Israel (Shema\u2019 Yisrael), our father -- \u00a0The Lord our God, the Lord is One! On hearing this, Jacob bowed on his bed (see Genesis 47:31) and said quietly: Blessed be the name of His glorious kingdom for ever and ever. As we can see, this Rabbinic retelling of the biblical narrative provides the basis for how we recite the Shema to this day. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our Midrash concludes that this aggadic tradition is why the people of Israel every day, morning and evening, say to their forefather: 'Listen Israel' (Shema Yisrael) \u2013 who lies buried in the Cave of Machpela (Genesis 50:13) -- \u00a0what we assured you on your death-bed, we continue to proclaim today: \u201cThe Lord our God, the Lord is One\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Deuteronomy 6 is most famous for the ultimate proclamation of Jewish faith, the Shema. For millennia, Jews have covered their eyes twice a day and exclaimed, \u201cHear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is One\u201d (Deut 6:4). The paragraph that follows outlines one of the most profound, complicated, and unique mitzvot of Judaism: it commands us to love God, with all our being (more on this later).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But this chapter begins with another startling message: \u201cThis is the <\/span>m<\/span>itzvah<\/span><\/em>, the laws and the rules, that the Lord your God commanded me to teach to you, to be observed in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy\u201d (Deut. 6:1). This is <\/span>the<\/span> mitzvah<\/span><\/em>. This is the big one. The capital-M <\/span>Mitzvah<\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

But what is it? Is it the command to love God? Is it the command, in that same paragraph, to teach these things to our children (Deut. 6:7), or to \u201cbind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead\u201d (Deut. 6:8)? Is it the command later in the chapter to make sure we don\u2019t forget God and all that God has done for us (Deut. 6:12)? Or is it answering our children\u2019s questions when they ask us why we do all these things (Deut. 6:20)?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The answer is that it\u2019s all of these things. <\/span>The Mitzvah<\/span><\/i> is gratitude. This chapter commands us to love, appreciate, and pass on what we know. It reiterates these messages, doubles- and triples-down on them. It tells us to appreciate all God did and does for us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But it doesn\u2019t just tell us to <\/span>voice<\/span><\/i> our gratitude, it tells us to <\/span>live<\/span><\/i> our gratitude. It tells us that living our lives in gratitude will lengthen our lives. When our lives, actions, deeds, <\/span>mitzvot<\/span><\/i>, come from a place of gratitude, we fill our lives and the lives of others with the love God has commanded. We pass on that love, filling the future with love. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And we do so by proclaiming, \u201cHear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is One\u201d. \u201c<\/span>Hear<\/span><\/i>, O Israel\u201d: transmit the message. \u201cThe Lord is <\/span>our<\/span><\/i> God\u201d: ours to be grateful for. \u201cThe Lord is <\/span>One<\/span><\/i>\u201d: the oneness of love. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

As the man said, \u201cOne love, one life\u2026 we get to carry each other\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Regarding his recap of the laws and rules given by God, in Deuteronomy 6:18 Moses tell the Israelites \u00a0\u201cDo what is <\/span>right and good in the eyes of God.<\/span><\/em>\u201d But back in Deuteronomy 4:5-6, Moses says \u201c<\/span>observe them carefully, for <\/span>this is your wisdom and understanding in the eyes of the nations.<\/span><\/em>\u201d So it seems we\u2019ve got two audiences for our actions: the eyes of God and the eyes of the world, and two ways of executing the laws: the right way and the good way.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi interprets that the \u201cgood\u201d in \u201cright and good\u201d is Moses\u2019 reference to the compromise needed to properly execute God\u2019s commandments. It is not a matter of merely enacting the letter of the law, it needs to be for ultimate good as well. Rashi expounds on this in Bava Metzia 108a in which, in reference to a law about enforcing field borders, he says \u201cOne should not perform an action that is not right and good, even if he is legally entitled to do so.\u201d \u00a0In other words, common sense should prevail. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

But what of our actions in the eyes of the rest of the world? It\u2019s certainly not the first time that God has mentioned our impact on the world. In Genesis 12:3 God says <\/span>\u201cthrough you all the families of the earth will be blessed.\u201d And in Exodus 7:5 about the signs and wonders He was going to perform for the Israelites, God says they are so \u201cthe Egyptians will know that I am the Lord\u201d. In fact until today the Jewish people exhort the prophet <\/span>Isaiah\u2019s transmission of God\u2019s promise to make us \u201ca light unto the nations\u201d (Isaiah 49:6). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

God may judge us on both <\/span>the right<\/span><\/i> (the observance of laws and rules) and <\/span>the good<\/span><\/i> (the way in which we enact our observance), but because it\u2019s reasonable to assume that the rest of the nations do not know all the laws and rules under which the Jewish people operate, it is only in the way that we fulfill the commandments that we will be judged by the world. If indeed we are to be \u201ca light unto the nations\u201d and fulfill our destiny as world leaders writ large we must individually remember to exemplify our commitment to Jewish law (do what\u2019s right) while heeding the call of common sense and compromise (doing what\u2019s good).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Deuteronomy 6 contains the best-known declaration in the entire Torah:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This verse, which is known as the <\/span>Shema<\/span><\/i> after the first word of the verse, is as close to a credo as one finds in Judaism. The reason for the centrality of the <\/span>Shema<\/span><\/i> in Jewish life is readily apparent. The whole paragraph (Deuteronomy 6:4-9) proclaims that the God of the Israelites is the only God, and He should be loved and worshiped passionately. The <\/span>Shema<\/span><\/i> is thus a profound expression of Jewish monotheism.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Just as fundamental is the passage\u2019s idea of surrounding oneself with remembrances of God, primarily in the form of words of Torah. The text instructs the Israelites to take these words and \u201crehearse them to your children; Recite them when you stay at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up. Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead; inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. (Deuteronomy 6:7-9).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The rabbis understood the verses of the <\/span>Shema<\/span><\/i> as obligating a number of commandments. People are to recite the Shema prayer daily. More broadly, they need to constantly study Torah and teach it to their children. And they should inscribe on parchment key biblical passages, including this paragraph, and then place these texts in the form of <\/span>mezuzot<\/span><\/em> positioned on the doorposts of their homes, and in black boxes bound to their body in the form of <\/span>tefillin<\/span><\/i> (phylacteries).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is a fascinating vision of a life fully encompassed by sacred texts and remembrances of divine covenant. The second century sage, R. Meir, put it most powerfully:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Meir used to say: There is not a single Jew whom the commandments do not surround. The <\/span>tefillin<\/span><\/i> on his head, the <\/span>tefillin<\/span><\/i> on his arm, the <\/span>mezuzah<\/span><\/i> on his door, and the four <\/span>tzitzit<\/span><\/i> (ritual fringes) encompass him. And regarding these [seven] commandments, King David said, \u2018Seven times per day I praise You for the laws of Your righteousness.\u2019 (Psalms 119:164).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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There are always new layers of meaning and emotion waiting to be discovered in the Shema - the centrepiece of Jewish prayer. Beyond the obvious religious importance of this declaration of faith, the Shema also offers insight into philosophical elements shared by Jews around the world. This calligraphy artwork is inspired by the first word of the prayer: \u2018Hear!\u2019<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To me, the Shema is above all a call for attentiveness. If we listen well enough, we will sense the oneness of the world and God. This Oneness, which lies far beyond the grasp of rational understanding, can only reveal itself through an immediate perception of the senses. In this piece I seek to convey this decree to listen and to perceive this oneness by using the three Hebrew letters comprising the word \u2018Shema\u2019. The letters stretch upwards, connecting heaven and earth, divine and mundane, pointing out the interconnection of everything that exists, at a hearing\u2019s reach.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Throughout history, the traditional last words of Jews who have been killed <\/span>al kiddush Hashem<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>sanctifying God's name, are the 6 words of the Shema found in chapter 6. The power of that statement takes on deeper meaning in light of Rashi's elucidation of the phrase. For Rashi, this is not a declaration of faith as much as it is a prayer, a hope.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"God, who is our Lord (<\/span>Elohei<\/span><\/i>nu<\/span><\/i>) <\/span><\/i>now, and not the God of the nations, in the future will be one God, as it says 'For then will I turn the nations language clear, to all call in the name of God' and it says 'On that day will God be one, and His name will be one.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Jew being killed because he is a Jew spends his last words, his last breath, expressing the hope for the day that no nation will lift sword against nation, because all nations will accept upon themselves the majesty of God. To hold onto this hope in the face of evil is to die sanctifying God's name.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But, the Rambam points out, our first responsibility is not to die <\/span>al kiddush Hashem<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>but to live that way. And that is precisely what the next verse directs us to do.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"And you shall love Hashem your God.\" What does it mean to love God? The Talmud gives an answer that needs to be read and reread, taught and re-taught. We dare not skip a single word.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"'And you shall love Hashem your God'- that the name of Heaven should become beloved because of you, that you should study, learn, and serve Torah scholars, and conduct your business pleasantly with people. What will people say about such a person? 'Fortunate is his father who taught him Torah, fortunate is his rabbi who taught him Torah, woe to those who don't learn Torah. This one who learned, see how pleasant are his paths, how proper are his actions.' About him the verse says 'And He said 'You are my servant, Israel in whom I glory.' But- he who studies, learns and serves Torah scholars but whose business dealings are not faithful and who doesn't speak pleasantly with people, what do people say about him: 'Woe to him who learned Torah, woe to his father, to his rabbi who taught him. This man who learned Torah, look how corrupt his actions are, how ugly his ways are.' About him the verse says 'As they say- this is God's nation, who left his land'\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The rest, as they, is commentary. If we want to sanctify God's name, we need to start internalizing these words.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cAnd you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be frontlets between your eyes.\u201d \u00a0(Deuteronomy 6:8)
\r\n
\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There are snakes and there are snakes.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Eden\u2019s serpent, for example,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>An anaconda emblazoned in flashy red, jungle green and peacock blue,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Was a master of speech<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Who despite his lisp,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Knew how to entice and beguile his prey. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

But each morning when I pray,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I find a gentle black snake wound seven times around my forearm;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Her tail weaves delicately three times around my finger<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>As her head rests on my biceps<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And nestles against my heart.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Her mate, who crowns my head,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Has no double tongue, but a double tail.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>This pair of domesticated snakes, venomless and with no fangs,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Tame and faithful to each other,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Barely squeeze<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And scarcely seem reptile;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>They snuggle up to me like puppies,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Nudging and pushing me towards the heavens. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

At night my two pets sleep in a velvet bag;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>After I waken them each morning<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>In silence they request I be their spokesman<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And thank Him who fashioned us three<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>For enabling us to slide out of bed<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And stand upright before Him. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Farmers value black snakes<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>That eat mice and rats which infest their granaries and barns;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Does the snake on my head devour impure thoughts,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The snake on my arm swallow shameful deeds? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In India, fakirs play flutes<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To hypnotize cobras and make them dance.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>But my two black snakes<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>In silence sing,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And as I sway<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To their soundless music<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>In the morning dance of prayer,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Eden\u2019s serpent,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Deafened,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Slithers away.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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More than three thousand years ago, Moses made a request that has echoed down the ages. Speaking to the Israelites who were about to enter the promised land, he said, \u201cAnd you shall teach these things to your children, speaking of them when you are at home or on the way, when you lie down and when you rise up\u201d (Deuteronomy 6:7). Moses was the leader of a small and injured people. They had been slaves; now they were free. They had set out on a long and tortuous journey through the desert and they had not yet reached their destination.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

They were not a people to inspire confidence. They were quarrelsome, ungrateful, indecisive and at times disloyal. Yet Moses sensed that something great had happened to them, something whose significance went far beyond that time, that place and this people. He believed \u2013 no, he <\/span>knew <\/span><\/i>- that this people would be the carriers of an eternal message, one that would have an effect not only on itself but on the civilization of the world. But only if successive generations of Jews took it upon themselves to hand down their beliefs to their children and their children\u2019s children.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Just before Moses said these words he made an even more poignant request: \u201cYou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.\u201d (Deuteronomy 6:5) The sixteenth-century commentator Rabbi Moses Alshekh was surely right when he said that these two verses are connected. We can only pass on to our children what we ourselves love. We cannot order our children to be Jews. We cannot deprive them of their choice, nor can we turn them into our clones. All we can do is to show them what we believe, and let them see the beauty of how we live. As the English poet Wordsworth said: \u201cWhat we love, others will love, and we will show them how.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\r\n

I cannot tell my children and grandchildren what they should be. Only they can make that choice, and I wish them blessing in whatever they decide. But I can tell them where we came from, and where our ancestors were travelling to, and why it was important to them that their children should carry on the journey. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is our story, unfinished yet. And there is a chapter only they can write.<\/span><\/p>\r\n


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\u201cStanding, Sitting, Bowing\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Leora Perkins: How does our posture impact our mindset?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cMezuzah\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Kevin Wolf: Explore sources on the commandment to put Torah on our doorposts.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    1. All in. All in, with all the wherewithal: \u201cYou shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might\u201d<\/span>
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    2. Totafot<\/span> (verse 8). <\/span><\/em>One of those mysterious words, which, according to the context seems to be a sort of ornament, something like what we\u2019ll meet in about 639 chapters \u201cLet me be a seal upon your heart, Like the seal upon your hand\u201d (Song of Songs 8:6).<\/span><\/i><\/li>\r\n\t
    3. On the <\/span>mezuzah<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i> Compare and contrast, the sign on the doorpost in the story of the Exodus (Ex. 12) and its use here: \u201cinscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates\u201d (verse 9).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    4. To inherit a settled land<\/em>. That\u2019s the backstory: \u201cWhen the LORD your God brings you into the land that He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to assign to you\u2014great and flourishing cities that you did not build; houses full of all good things that you did not fill, hewn cisterns that you did not hew, vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant\u2014and you eat your fill\u201d (verses 10-11).<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

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