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.

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

   

Sefer haZohar on the Prayers of the Righteous and Angels Appointed Over Prayers of Israel

"Rabbi Abba said: [...] The blessed Holy One constantly desires the prayers of the righteous and crowns Himself with their prayers, as they have said: That angel appointed over the prayers of Israel takes all those prayers, fashions them into a crown, and places it on the head of Vitality of the Worlds, as they have established. All the more so with prayers of the righteous, desired by the blessed Holy One, fashioned into a crown with which He is crowned. [...]

"Come and see what Rabbi Shim'on said: 'The prayer of a congregation ascends before the blessed Holy One, who crowns Himself with that prayer because it ascends in many colors, encompassing many facets. Interweaving many colors, it is made into a crown and placed on the head of the Righteous One, Vitality of the Worlds; wheras the prayer of an individual is not interwoven but monochromatic and so not as readily received as the prayer of a congregation.'"

-- Sefer haZohar 1:167b (transl. D. Matt)

Sefer haZohar on Emanation and the Letters of YHVH

"Rabbi Shim'on said, 'We have learned that when the blessed Holy One created the world, He carved engravings of mysteries of faith within radiances in supernal mysteries. He engraved above, He engraved below, all in one mystery of engravings of the Holy Name, YHVH, ruling through its letters above and below. Through this mystery worlds were consummated, the upper world and the lower world.

"The upper world was consummated by mystery of the letter Yod ─ primordial supernal point emerging from within the concealed and hidden, which is unknown unsusceptible to knowing, and completely unknowable, mysterious ascension of Ein Sof. From this concealment shone a single radiance ─ subtle, concealed, comprising within itself the totality of all lights. That concealed radiance was struck by one who did not strike, illumined by one who did not illumine, and then it emitted one radiance ─ bliss in which to delight, radiance in which subtle concealed radiance may be secreted..."

-- Sefer haZohar, 2:127a (transl. D. Matt)

Rabbi Shim'on continues his discourse, but consider: this portion of text is meant to be recited aloud as a blessing. It is a theurgical exercise that opens the subtle energy channels inside one's own Tree.