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In Deuteronomy
6:4-9 it is written:
Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One. You
must love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul
and with all your might. Take these words with which I command you this
day. Impress them upon your children and recite them, when you stay at
home and when you are on your way, when you lie down and when you get
up...
Most people are not aware of the true meaning of these sentences. When
Jacob was about to die, he called upon his sons and swore them to
believe in one G-d. The name of Jacob is Israel, and the first sentence
is the oath of the sons.
The perception unity is the
highest value that one should strive to contemplate in his life. The
whole creation is one body that multiplies itself into numerous shapes
of existence. The laws of geometry, physics, mathematics and biology
prove the existence of this oneness. Creation exists for
each one to experience the highest of all – love.
The meaning of creation is placed inside the word love (AHAVA). The word consists of
the Hebrew letters Alef (1) and Beit (2) meaning that one splits into
two. This process is required, as one cannot experience oneself without
a point of reference. At the moment of fertilization, the cell
divides
itself into two which bring us to three – creator, creature and
creation. The Lord commands us to love him three times, which are
expressed in the three spheres of the pendant and the three engraved
words – heart, soul and might.
The value of the word love
(AHAVA) is 13, which is the same as the word one…
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