RDK - Maharal - Echad (Shma)

Long days & long years

Why do you go long on the echad (shma)
Many 'ones'
One can be part of a set on singles
One sun
Many unique items
Saying echad which is singular and unique, but better, one which is all encompassing
Only one reality
A long echad shows that you are encompassing everything in one.
Experiential, not intellect. A letting go.
Mind always wants to hold on, but experience is to let go - access to a level of unity and inclusiveness beyond reason.
Achdut Gamur
Don't shorten/cut the chet
Shlemut is when each participant member in the declaration has its presence - perhaps contradictory to echad.
Shalem is unity with participant parts.
Achdut gevurah
Don't over extend or grasp the chet, or else you might be clutching at an individual part of Gd in this world.
Lack in achdut if you can't take account of all the details
Saying chet long participates in eternity, and there is no moment in which He is not present
Time disappears in a non-motion eternal moment - a contact with eternity.
Matza is 'no time'.
Every moment is the same access point and doorway to eternity
Ach & Chad
Chet is the window to eternity - straddling both worlds
Ichui (ach) is binding
Chad is sharpness - a point
Everything is conquered/won over in eternity
Not lengthening the chet participates in insufficiency
Don't limit or bind yourself
Lengthening is part of transcendental
Rushing belittles the details
Don't have an awareness or even hyper-awareness of time by shortening chet
Be focussed and engaged
No need to rush a mitva
Your soul is part of eternity
Do what you are meant to be doing with wholeness, don't rush it. Don't lengthen and don't shorten.
Don't over extend chet and don't cut it short. Say chet fully and properly.
Gd leaves no room for other.
There is no acher, only echad.
The divine has no measure of time, only fulfillment of purpose to participate in eternity.

Aleph is 2 sharp points of Gd (yud) that are joined (bound) together by a common line between worlds - ach & chad.

Echad: Aleph, Chet, Daled = directions
Aleph is 1 - one point.
Chet is 8 - forward, backward, left, right, up, down, present and future.
Daled is 4 - everyone lives within their 4 amot, from which all directions are measured. Their makom = omnipresent.

Map out your life - visualise. Then cut it in half... Make the most of every moment.


Leah Golda bat Esther Frumit