Ouvir e amar a Javé : Dt 6,4-9 : um caminho para a cultura de paz

Abstract

The dissertation To hear and to love Iahweh: Dt 6,4-9, a way towards a culture of peace is an exegetic biblical-pastoral study of the pericope of Deuteronomy 6,4-9, which is called Shemá Israel, which is the challenge faced by Israel of listening and accepting Iahweh as the only God in response to His love and fidelity. His attitude should be of loving Him with all his heart, with all his soul and with all his strength and to inculcate into the children these teachings. Such demonstration of love towards Iahweh and not towards other gods, leads Israel to organize a society based not in violence or social classes, but determined by fraternal structures. In our times, the recuperation of these actions express values such as solidarity, cooperation and fraternity that have been abandoned throughout history, causing situations of violence. The Kings Hezekiah and Josiah, in the VIII and VII centuries B.C., favored reforms aiming at uniting Israel around the unique God, the unique people, the unique land, an unique sanctuary and a unique Law, to keep the nation strong and united. During that period they found in the Temple the Book of the Law that was used as the basis for those reforms. This book is part of the present Deuteronomy in which the Shemá Israel works as a set of values such as solidarity, fraternity, and justice that helps to build up actions towards peace. In our days, in the middle of conflicts and dehumanization, the Shemá is presented as an alternative way to recognize the signs already existent in our society, that focus on the construction of a culture of peace. It points towards a social change in the perspective of a communitarian solidarism, having the Jesus complement in the commandment to love your neighbor as yourself, becoming a fundament for attitudes that consolidate traditions of peace.