Ve’ethchanan: unity

One of the main themes of this oft quoted parsha is the unity of Gd.
One really should have only one meaning ( that would make it non-Richardian#), but it doesn’t.
One is the unit of increase for addition and it is the identity element for multiplication.
1+1=2 but 2X1=2.

One stands between fractions and addenda.
לֹא תֹסִפוּ, עַל-הַדָּבָר אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוֶּה אֶתְכֶם, וְלֹא תִגְרְעוּ, מִמֶּנּוּ

The fractional gd leaves a corner of the universe unobserved. Multiple gds let a person appeal to their conflicts. The one Gd is all encompassing.

Ultimately, you know what it means. When you feel it with all your heart, and every breath, and you do it with all your might.

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#A Richardian number is a number that does not exemplify itself. For example, if one said that 3 represents even-ness, it would be Richardian, if it represented oddness it would be non Richardian Goedel’s theorem, which proves the incompleteness (and/or inconsistency) of mathematical proofs is based on such a concept. Consider the number that represents Richardianism.