"Shiviti Ha-Shem Le-Negdi Tamid"
("I have set the lord always before me", Psalms 16:8).
This Shiviti is also an amulet with many Kabbalistic Verses signs for general protection and health and house blessing.
Plaques such as these were hung in synagogues and in Jewish homes as a reminder of God's presence and against evil eye.
In the Ashkenazi Milieu the Shiviti is often placed in a decorative frame next to the Holy Ark and has been common element in synagogue furnishing since the 18th century.
Wrote the Hida, peace be upon him, in his book Tzafar Shamir or Ch
And this is the language of anyone who calls the conductor in the melodies of the menorah and understands it perfectly
Then he was considered as the one who lit the Menorah in the Holy Temple and nothing bad happened to him