The Tanya as a treatise on how the 613 mitzvot animate the whole person — body, soul, attention.
Six hundred thirteen is the canonical count of the commandments of the Torah — taryag (תר״ג) mitzvot. The figure breaks into 248 positive commandments and 365 negative ones — corresponding in classical enumeration to the 248 limbs and 365 tendons of the body, and to the days of the solar year.
Bottle No. 613 of the Bereshit Series carries the most architecturally complete of the Holy Numbers. The Hebrew document accompanying it points to the Chabad treatment of the whole person as the site where the 613 are enacted: body, soul, attention, the discipline that makes a life a coherent text.
For the collector who acquires bottle 613, the object is something close to a portable summary of the tradition. Allocated once, kept privately, opened at most once.
The bottle itself
Bottle No. 613 of the Bereshit Series is part of the Holy Numbers Edition. It is delivered with an individual Hebrew document placing the numeral in its traditional context, under rabbinical supervision within the Chabad-Lubavitch tradition. Price: € 7,700. Allocation by private invitation only.