What Is an Aleph?

Aleph is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ʾālep ?, Hebrew ʾālef א, Aramaic ʾālap ?, Syriac ʾālap̄ ܐ, and Arabic alif ا. It also appears as South Arabian ?, and Ge'ez ʾälef አ.

What does Aleph symbolize?

Aleph, in Jewish mysticism, represents the oneness of God. The letter can be seen as being composed of an upper yud, a lower yud, and a vav leaning on a diagonal. The upper yud represents the hidden and ineffable aspects of God while the lower yud represents God's revelation and presence in the world.

What does Aleph mean in math?

In mathematics, particularly in set theory, the aleph numbers are a sequence of numbers used to represent the cardinality (or size) of infinite sets that can be well-ordered. They were introduced by the mathematician Georg Cantor and are named after the symbol he used to denote them, the Hebrew letter aleph ( ).