Rashi on the Shema - To Love Hashem your God

"And it will be that if listening, you will listen to My commandments that I command you today, to love Hashem your God..." -- Deuteronomy 11:13

"TO LOVE HASHEM : That you should not say, 'Behold I shall learn so that I will be rich', or 'so that I will be called Rabbi', or 'so that I will receive reward for having studied'. Rather, all that you do, do out of love and the honor will come in the end." -- Rashi


honor = כבוד
כבוד = 32

The 3 Essential Daily Prayer Sessions and the 12 Essential Daily Prayers

There are 3 Essential Daily Prayer Sessions:

1. Morning (Shacharit) - instituted by Abraham.
2. Afternoon (Minchah) - instituted by Isaac.
3. Evening (Maariv) - instituted by Jacob.

The 12 Essential Daily Prayers:

1. First Blessing of the Recitation of the Shema (Shacharit)
2. Second Blessing of the Recitation of the Shema (Shacharit)
3. The Shema (Shacharit)
4. Third Blessing of the Recitation of the Shema (Shacharit)
5. Shemoneh Esrei (Shacharit)
6. Shemoneh Esrei (Minchah)
7. Fourth Blessing of the Recitation of the Shema (Maariv)
8. Fifth Blessing of the Recitation of the Shema (Maariv)
9. The Shema (Maariv)
10. Sixth Blessing of the Recitation of the Shema (Maariv)
11. Seventh Blessing of the Recitation of the Shema (Maariv)
12. Shemoneh Esrei (Maariv)


The entire round of 12 prayers is a mathematically precise sequence. There are certain Metatronic wavelengths that can only be accessed by the complete performance of all 12 prayers.

Midrash Rabbah Devarim on the Meticulousness in the Enunciation of the Letters of the Recitation of the Shema

"A halakhic question: A man of Israel who recited the Shema reading and was not meticulous in enunciating each of its letters, has he fulfilled his obligation?

"The Sages taught in a Mishnah: If one recited the Shema and was not meticulous in enunciating each of its letters, Rabbi Yose says that he fulfilled his obligation, but Rabbi Yehudah says that he has not fulfilled his obligation.

"And what is 'meticulousness of the letters'? Our Rabbis taught us: With regard to the words 'bechol' and 'levavchem' (Deut. 11:13), one must separate between the lamed at end of bechold and the lamed at the beginning of levavchem. Similarly with regard to the words 'vaavadtem' and 'meheirah' (Deut. 11:17), one must separate between the mem at the end of 'vaavadtem' and the mem at the beginning of 'meheirah'."

-- Midrash Rabbah, Devarim Rabbah, 2.31


This is a very straightforward proof-text for the fact that halakhic regulations are expressed as morphic functions of the vibrational effect generated by the person's actions in the world. That is, there is a mathematical physics to halakhah, in addition to the scholarly dimension of Talmudic analysis.

Here, the fulfillment of the Shema is a function of the correct pronunciation of each letter that comprises each of the 248 words that make up the daily Shema recitation. 

Midrash Rabbah Devarim on the Halakhah of Reciting Shemoneh Esrei after the Shema

"A question of halakhah: If an Israelite were reciting the Shema, would it be permissible for him to wait following the reciting of the Shema [i.e. get up and do something else], and only later pray the Shemoneh Esrei (Eighteen Blessings)?

"The Sages taught as follows: Immediately following the blessing of redemption [i.e. the blessing after the Shema is read] is the Shemoneh Esrei prayer.

"And one who does these things, what is his reward? Rabbah bar Avin said: If he recites Shema with the accompanying blessings, and immediately following, prays the Shemoneh Esrei, he may be assured that his prayer will be heard."

-- Midrash Rabbah, Devarim Rabbah 2.10 (on Devarim 4:7).


This is coded for Overself Dynamics.
 

Sefer haZohar on Reciting the Shema Fulfills the Entire Torah

"When the people of Israel enact unification by this verse ─ in the mystery of twenty-five letters: שמע ישראל יהוה אלהינו יהוה אחד (Shema Yisra'el YHVH Eloheinu YHVH ehad), 'Hear O Israel, YHVH our God, YHVH is one'; and ברוך שם כבוד מלכותו לעולם ועד (Barukh shem kevod malkuto le-olam va-ed), 'Blessed be the name of His glorious kingdom forever and ever', which contains twenty-four letters ─ focusing on each one of the, all those letters join as one and ascend to forty-nine gates, in the mystery of Jubilee. Then one must elevate ועד (va-ed), 'and ever' ─ no further ─ upon which gates are opened, and the blessed Holy One considers that person as if he had fulfilled the complete Torah, which appears in forty-nine facets, completely.

"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:

The Lie group E8