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What is the level of obligation for krias shema al hamita (the recitation of Shema before going to bed)? Is it a mitzvah deoraisa, mitzvah derabanan, is it a minhag avoseinu byadeinu? Maybe it's something else?

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The Gemarah in brachos 4b,Rabbi Yeshua Ben Levi says it is a mitzvah to read the shema again.Rav Yossi brings a passuk from Tehillim as proof.It seems that one has an obligation to recite the shema before going to sleep.It seems to me to be a drabbanan.

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How could it be a deoraisa if the pasuk is from tehillim? – Double AA♦ Mar 4 at 3:15
Could be Reb Yeshua Ben Levi held it was one. – sam Mar 4 at 3:21
How? It's a verse from Ketuvim not the Oraita==Torah. – Double AA♦ Mar 4 at 3:22
I see your point it seems like a drabbanan. – sam Mar 4 at 3:25
Related: judaism.stackexchange.com/q/16046 – msh210♦ Mar 4 at 3:43

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