In Hebrew, the first word is אָנֹכִי, which starts with an aleph. The letter Aleph has 3 distinct parts and 10 laws concerning its form. There is an upper Yud, a lower Yud, and a body that ...

But actually doodling around the letters of the aleph bet is age-old — it’s part of Jewish tradition to have illuminated manuscripts. An illustration of the Hebrew alphabet. (Rabbi Emily Meyer) ...

"If all you know is alef (the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet), then teach alef!" the Chabad Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, would often quote.

The first letter of the Hebrew Aleph-Bet and the the first letter in the first word of the Ten Commandments (lit. “words” – aseret ha-d’varim) is the Aleph (Exodus 20:1).

To that Shomer’s aleph bet adds 11 consonants and one vowel. The new letters may look quizzical to some, but at the same time familiar to Hebrew speakers in that they visually combine existing ...

In our four weeks of study, our Beginner Aleph class made only a dent in the textbook. I can’t yet manage a discourse on sandwich fillings, but I can tell you that I’d like red or white יין ...

David Goldstein, “Hebrew Aleph-Bet” (2020) (image courtesy David Goldstein) The next section moves into calligraphy and lettering, a particular passion of the author, who movingly describes a ...

The rise of a whole new profession of calligraphy artists, often with little or no connection with tradition, has meant a new approach to the aleph-bet.