ALEPH - 1 - Andrea Beloff

Aleph has a numerical value of 1.

It’s pictograph is the head of an ox, and represents

the strength of the leader or strength of the leader of the Covenant.

We study Hebrew because it was the original language created by God and in studying it, we arrive at deeper levels of understanding of Him.

Aleph is the beginning! From Aleph,everything else came to existence. It is the silent sound, like the breadth of the Holy Spirit and it gives life to everything that follows it.

In the Old Testament or Tanakh, Genesis or Bereishit 1:1 reads like this in Hebrew:

Bereishit bara Elohim; et hasha mayim ve’et ha’aretz.

In English, Genesis 1:1 reads:

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Notice the ‘et’. That word has no translation. It is a combination of the Aleph and the Tav implying that we should focus on what comes after the Aleph. That would be the Tav, and later I will circle back around to this because it is extremely key in the Hebrew language and in understanding the Father’s plan that is already laid out in the opening sentence of the Bible.

Another thing to notice in the first verse of Genesis in Hebrew is the word Elohim. Elohim is plural and gives us the revelation that God is a triune spiritual being and that is of extreme importance because it gives preface to the knowledge that the Father, Yeshua, the Son, and the Holy Spirit have always operated as one but in their distinct formats just like water is seen as a liquid, as a solid as in ice or as a vapor.

How blessed are we that we will be able to receive an acceleration of all this knowledge due to hindsite. Something that just popped into my head is that this shows us that there is a beginning and an end to this knowledge in order to be able to move on with what the Father has planned for us. Let us not grow faint in our search and in this understanding, now that I have brought it to the foreground. I may not even be able to contain sharing it with you before we reach the TAV. That is not a plug to jump ahead as the journey is what matters. In this revelation we learn that He, who is revealed, has always been there and will always be there. Yes, you guessed it, Yeshua or Jesus was concealed in the Old Testament but he has always been there.

Isaiah 44:6

“This is what the LORD says-

Israel’s King and Redeemer, the LORD Almighty:

I am the first and I am the last; Apart from me there is no God.

Revelation 1:8

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, (in Greek),

“I am the Aleph and the Tav.” (In Hebrew)

“who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

In the New Testament, Yeshua was revealed. I cannot tell it better than Apostle John. He was there. He lived among the Messiah and the testimony of this truth is clearly written.

John 1:1-14

[1] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. [2] He was with God in the beginning. [3] Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made. [4] In Him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. [5] The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. [6] There was a man sent from God whose name was John. [7] He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through Him all might believe. [8] He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. [9] The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. [10] He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him. [11] He came to that which was His own, but His own did not receive Him. [12] Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His Name, He gave the right to become children of God— [13] children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. [14] The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the One and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

The ALEPH as seen in the artwork is made up of a two YUDs and a diagonal VAV. The YUD means the Right Hand of power of God and the VAV is the nail that connects or Yeshua. So in the ALEPH we see the higher Hand of power and the lower Hand of power separated by the nail, or the tent peg that connects heaven and earth. That design alone says it all. Through Yeshua we are connected to the Father and His power. In Yeshua, we are one.

The word ALEPH breaks down to an Aleph, a Lamed, and a Pay. The Aleph we know means the strength of the leader, Lamed is instruction, or teachings, and Pay has to do with speaking things forward with the mouth. So from here we see the strength of the Torah is the Word, and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us and came to teach us, is the Word. There is no separating that Yeshua has always been present. So I just wanted to emphasize that as it is important for the rest of this journey to have that sealed in our hearts and mind.

The study of the alphabet should change our lives. There is a spiritual message inside each letter and the combination of letters when looked at as parts of a whole, break down the meaning of words. One might not even know what the word itself means but once you know what each letter means, you can put the idea together.

Each letter also has a number value and ALEPH is 1 and the meaning of “1” is that it is the number of God (YHVH). It is also the number of unity, for it cannot be divided. 1 also means beginning, unique and by itself. It is completeness and perfection.

Aleph words:

Amet – truth
Amuna – faith
Ani – eye
Acheret – blessing
Adonai – LORD
Echad – One
Elohim – GOD
Or – light

Thank you for coming along on this journey into each letter of the Hebrew Alphabet. Painting and studying them has been such a blessing to me and I know it would please the Father to share this, as He has been so present in the creation of each painting. Each letter is available in a Metallic Photo Reproduction in two sizes. I believe they would make great learning tools to be displayed in Houses of Prayer, Churches, Youth Group classrooms. Eventually I would like to create learning tools for all ages on the Alphabet.