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The Shema

The Sages taught that Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi and the Rabbis disagreed with regard to the language in which the Shema must be recited: 
The Shema must be recited as it is written, in Hebrew — this is the statement of Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi. 
The Rabbis say: The Shema may be recited in any language. -Talmud berachot 13

What matters is that we say it twice each day, morning and night.  

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