Living Journey

Here is the first of the Hebrew Alpha-bet. It is called the aleph it is the father of the alpha-bet and it has no sound of its own, so it is a silent letter (more on the significance of the silence in another post) and will usually have a vowel associated with it. There is a particular way of writing it, so you have to start with the line diagonal and that line is called the vav and then the upper right line is called a yod which is the next bit to be drawn following by the last yod in the lower left corner. At the end of this post you will find the correct sequence of the letter to be drawn.
The upper yod is said to be a hidden arm and represents YHVH while the lower yod is said to represent YHVH revelation to mankind. The upper is divine while the lower is the revealed earthly realm. What separates the two yods is the vav which is said to represent humanity or man (some say Adam) and is given the value of 6 as it is the 6th letter in the Hebrew Alpha-bet.

The vav is also called the hook and it shows the connection between the yods. This is interesting when you think that the vav is numerically 6 and Adam was created on the 6th day; according to some they say that it actually does represent Adam. The yods both represent the numerical number of 10. The aleph being the first in the Hebrew Alpha-bet is given the number 1 or 1000.

The aleph can also be written in a pictogram and is displayed as an ox, this really interested me because I have read about early Chinese writing and how that started with pictograms as well. The ox in Hebrew Alpha-bet means strength and leader and is also designated with the number 1 and 1000. The pictogram for aleph looks very much like the ancient Chinese pictogram for ox. Why I find this interesting is because Leviticus says this about the ox or bull calf which is a shadow of the Moschiach Yeshua bar Yoseph that was to come.

Lev 9:2 and he said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a bull calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and offer them before the LORD.

There is an excellent book called ‘God’s Promise to the Chinese’ which I have read, and although today I am not going to post much more about this book, I may find that during my journey in learing the Hebrew Alpha-bet I may come across some little pieces of information that may interest me between the similarities of the Ancient Chinese picture-graph’s and the Hebrew ones.
Anyway, this is what I have learnt today - and I have a feeling there will be more coming up on this one symbol being the Aleph. I have only just started to scratch the surface …. I am quite excited about it actually.

The aleph has within it many aspects of truth:

• divine (upper heavenly arm represents 10)
• man (vav, the diagonal line represents 6)
• revealed (lower earthly yod represents 10)
• bull calf/ox (pictogram of an ox represents sacrifice)