Hebrew:

A total of twelve Hebrew personal names are used to identify the Twelve. Nine different Hebrew names are used with three of these names being used twice: Shimeon (Simon), Jacob (James), Nathaniel, Thomas, Levi, Bar Talmai (Bartholomew), Lebh (Labbaeus), Todah (Thaddaeus) and Judah (Judas). The three Hebrew names that are used twice are Shimeon, Jacob and Judah. The Hebrew personal names of the "sent ones" possess messianic meaning. Divine providence has instilled in these names an abbreviated witness to the Messiah and His Torah (Rabbi Yeshua's Teaching).

Heard:

(1).  Witness 1. "Heard" (Shimeon’s name). Man's love language in Hebrew is to "Hear" God, "Hear O' Israel Yahweh our Eloheynu is One Yahweh." To hear in Hebrew means to listen, understand and obey. In the prayer of Unity, the Shema, God's elect people Israel vow to be one with God by offering up all their collective spirit, soul, mind and body to serve as a temple for God's Spirit to dwell in (forever). This means God's Spirit defines who we are existentially and behaviorally. God's people are to welcome and embrace God's intellect, will, and emotional life as if His life is their only life. In time with the help of God's Spirit His people are to become perfectly "one" with Him. In this way all Israel's behavioral and relational life will become solely and exclusively an expression of God’s Life. The Holy Spirit seeks to continuously dwell upon, in and through God's people. God's love transforms us by His first indwelling us. The Way of God’s Living Torah is experienced solely through the continuous indwelling of His own Spirit within our cleansed hearts (Jeremiah’s Heart of flesh and not of stone). Redeemed man reciprocates this Gift of the Father by obeying the Spirit who lives as Lord within him. In Hebrew parents love and children obey.  Nowhere in the Tanach are children asked to love their parents. However, children are asked to reciprocate their Parent’s love through their obedience.

Shimeon is a name that is mentioned twice therefore it is doubly important. Until now only the Messiah has succeeded in obeying the Shema. In all human history there has only been one person who has lived a sinless, blameless, perfectly obedient life (fulfilled all God's Torah). I believe one day soon, with the miraculous help of the Holy Spirit, all God’s children (physically dead and living) will be transformed into Messiah’s likeness, and then there will be an entire nation of children who will perfectly fulfill the promise of the Unity Prayer, the Shema. Rabbi Shaul (Paul) describes this entire transformational process from start to finish. Regarding the fulfillment of the Shema he states:

"Therefore I...implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love, being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all" (Ephesians 4:1-6).

The witness of the name Shimeon speaks of our practice of faith in God’s Word. Faith is obedience to God. Faith, exercised in the power of the Holy Spirit is man’s love language to God our Father.