Posting the Covenant and Passing It On

   In law school all first year students are required to take Real Property.  Covenants running with the land are a big deal.  This is where I was first introduced to covenants.  Now over 30 years later I'm studying covenants from a different perspective.  God used covenant as a way of relating to his people the Israelites.
      The Bible is the main text of the study.  As I write this, the first study book, about creating covenant, is almost finished.
     The formal study is Covenant Bible Study published by Abingdon Press.  This series of short notes is my response to the daily readings.
     Episode 8 ends with the Moab covenant, which is in  Deuteronomy 6:4-9. Scripture commands us to write God's commandments on the doorposts of our house and on the gates.
     Perhaps this is a reference to the gates of the city, in contrast to the doorposts of an individual home.  All those entering the city would see the  commandments.  Gates were an immobile structure, a stationary place.  This suggests a degree of permanence. All would see them, whether members of Israel or not.  At this point, Israelites are not directed to affirmatively spread the words of the commandments to outsiders.  The point of posting commandments seems to be to make the existence of the commandments known to all, and to serve as a reminder of the commandments to Israel.
     Israelites are directed to constantly teach the commandments to their children, and to learn them by heart.
     Maybe the Shema is the source of posting the Ten Commandments in various public places.
     The Shema was given to a group, the Israelites. "Hear, O Israel. . .."   Individuals make up a group. Individuals are called to respond to the covenant in their individual capacity.  Importantly, individuals are commanded to pass the covenant on to their children.  The means of passing the covenant includes the written word and the spoken word.  It  becomes a word of the heart.
     To know "by heart" is to know by rote or from memory.  Teaching and learning commandments is a 24- hour undertaking.
   Covenant requires a personal, individual response.
   Covenant is given to the community, and covenant living is exercised in community.
   Faith must be exercised in public.  There is a sign on the gate.
Does the Shema say anything about imposing it on others, outside the community?  What implications does this have for me?