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Shema

“Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one”: the central declaration of Jewish faith.

Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism

The Shema, from Deuteronomy, affirms the oneness of God and is recited morning and evening and at the hour of death. Jewish mystics read its declaration of unity as pointing to the unification of the sefirot and to the truth that nothing exists apart from God.