One Breath, One Prayer:A Vision of Unity

Why not take a few moments - right here, right now - to join the "One Breath, One Prayer" vision of true unity, by listening to, and speaking for yourself, Yeshua's great prayer - the "Lord's Prayer" - in his own native language of Aramaic?

When his followers asked him, "Lord, teach us to pray," the Middle Eastern wisdom teacher Yeshua - Jesus - did not answer them in Greek or Hebrew. He didn't answer in Old English, or Danish, Catholic or Southern Baptist, New Thought, Hindi, American or Korean, Malawian, Reformed or Orthodox. Western or Eastern.

He responded as a man of his land, his time, his people, in his language - the language he was raised to speak. He responded in Aramaic.

What if ...?

What if all who believe in the message of Yeshua and who hold his spiritual vision in our hearts and souls set aside for just a few minutes all our myriad differences in doctrine and denomination, principle and practice, anhd found our way back to our origins in unity - back to true communion - by sharing Yeshua's prayer in the language in which he spoke it into the world?

What if we could find our way to closer union with, and experience of, the spiritual truth and wisdom and power that resonated for Yeshua's listeners as they heard his great prayer for the first time - by speaking the Aramaic words he spoke, as he spoke them?

This is the vision:

ONE BREATH - Yeshua's words, ringing with the spiritual power and devotion with which his very breath infused them as he gave voice to his spiritual vision

ONE PRAYER - Connecting us back to the beginning - back to what "those who have ears to hear" would have heard in their hearts on that hillside in Judea 2,000 years ago

"You breathe with, you say the words of the teacher or the prophet in their language - and you come into rhythm with the words as a living experience.”- Dr. Neil Douglas-Klotz

Here are some resources to support your "One Breath, One Prayer" experience:

See and Read the Prayer

On the left is the Aramaic Prayer written in a variant of Aramaic script called "Syriac" that dates back to the 1st century CE. The lines read from right to left, top to bottom.

On the right is a transliteration of the Aramaic Lord's Prayer - showing you how to pronounce each word. On your own or when listening to the audio tools below, you can use this transliteration to speak the Aramaic Prayer aloud - knowing as you do that your breath is moving through your body in the way Yeshua's did 2,000 years ago when he taught his followers to "pray as I pray."

Click here for a printable version of this commemorative prayer card, courtesy of The Abwoon Network.

Aramaic words and transliterations are from Prayers of the Cosmos: Meditations on the Aramaic Words of Jesus (HarperSanFrancisco 1990). Copyright Neil Douglas-Klotz, www.Abwoon.com. Used here with permission.

Hear and Say the Prayer

In this brief, powerful inspirational video, you can hear and read along with the Aramaic Lord’s Prayer line by line, spoken by Neil Douglas-Klotz. (Created by SelfHealingExpressions.com)

In this video Dr. Douglas-Klotz leads a gathering in singing and body prayer to the first line of the Aramaic Prayer, Abwoon d'b'shmaya. At the end, the gathering speaks the entire Aramaic Prayer together.

Google Search: There are now hundreds of audio and video recordings available on line under the search heading "Aramaic prayer." Many are duplicated recordings set to different visuals. Many are shared by native Aramaic/Assyrian speakers, in a variety of dialects. Many are set to music or recorded during religious services. All are worth checking out to find your own favorites!