Da Lifne Mi Atah Omed

I have been reading a book entitled "Sitting at the feet of Rabbi Jesus" and came across a portion discussing how Jews during the time of Jesus regarded God as ever present, intimately involved in the believer's daily life, even down to the most trivial of issue. I agree with the writer that we have somehow lost this aspect of belief in the modern world. The text in the subject of this post, as indicated by the author is often inscribed in a synagogue above where the Torah scrolls are stored. It is there to remind those that enter that God is an active participant in the world, not a passive God that wound the clock of creation and now just watches it run. The text translated is "Know Before Whom You Stand".