"Therefore, one should focus the will on twenty-five and twenty-four,
elevating them by aspiration of the heart through the forty-nine gates
that we have mentioned. Having focused on this, one should focus on the
unification described by our Master ─ שמע ישראל (Shema Yisra'el), 'Hear
O Israel! ...', and ברוך שם (Barukh shem), 'Blessed be the name...',
are the entirety of the whole Torah. Happy is the share of one who
focuses on them, for this is surely the entirety of Torah, above and
below! This is the mystery of the complete Human, male and female, and
mystery of all faith."
-- Sefer haZohar, 2:139b (transl. D. Matt, Pritzker ed. vol. 5, pp. 284-5)
One who recites the Shema is as one who has fulfilled all 248 positive commandments, which are body parts of the "complete Human" - supernal Adam.
The 3 paragraphs of the Shema contain 245 words. Including the 3 words אל מלך נאמן (El melekh ne'eman) 'God, faithful king', brings the count up to 248.
The 248 words of the Shema are coded for the mathematics of the exceptional simple Lie group E8, a 248-dimensional Lie group that is part of the foundations of mathematical physics, in particular string theory and supergravity. Below is an image of E8 projected into the Coxeter plane:
-- Sefer haZohar, 2:139b (transl. D. Matt, Pritzker ed. vol. 5, pp. 284-5)
One who recites the Shema is as one who has fulfilled all 248 positive commandments, which are body parts of the "complete Human" - supernal Adam.
The 3 paragraphs of the Shema contain 245 words. Including the 3 words אל מלך נאמן (El melekh ne'eman) 'God, faithful king', brings the count up to 248.
The 248 words of the Shema are coded for the mathematics of the exceptional simple Lie group E8, a 248-dimensional Lie group that is part of the foundations of mathematical physics, in particular string theory and supergravity. Below is an image of E8 projected into the Coxeter plane:
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| The Lie group E8 |
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