October 3, 2018 · 00:05:05
Tehilim Perek 119: Letter Aleph . Aleph is the first letter of the Aleph Beis. Its numerical value is 1, which represents Hashem, Who is Echad, yachid u’meychud. Always was, is and will be One. Just as Aleph is the head of all the letters, so too is Hashem the Head of the world. As Aleph is synonymous with Hashem, it contains all of creation in it. All that was, is and will be can be found within the letter Aleph itself! Mathematically, Aleph is the only letter whose numerical value equals itself. If you spell the letter Aleph out as a word: aleph, lamed, fay, it equals one hundred eleven (111), to remind us that Hashem is One. Furthermore, the word eleph means one thousand (1,000). If you take the gematria of aleph which is 111, and add an additional 1 for the eleph, you get one thousand one hundred and eleven. These 4 ones (1’s) in the number 1111 represent all the kochos, forces, in the 4 worlds which all emanate from one divine source and are unified by God, who is One. It should also be mentioned that they correspond to the four letters of Hashem’s name of HVYK, meaning there is one Force behind all of existence including the world we see, and the hidden world we don’t see. The letter formation of the letter Aleph is comprised of a vav and two yud’s. which is the numerical value of 26. This also corresponds to Hashem’s Name of YKVK, whose gematria is 26. If you look closer at the letter aleph, you will see a yud above with a vav in the middle, and a yud below. The yuds a