aleph

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This was the mission Rebbe Nachman held out to him a few days after their frist meeting: to become the lower point of the aleph, to bring life, vitality and faith to all the lower levels.

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  1. noun The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. See Table at alphabet.

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  • Underneath, where it counts, I'm aleph-sub-aleph happy The hardware filled a large bleak room, and at that much of it was below the floor in a cryogenic chamber. —  Asimov's Science Fiction - 1977_02(002)Summer
  • This was the mission Rebbe Nachman held out to him a few days after their frist meeting: to become the lower point of the aleph, to bring life, vitality and faith to all the lower levels. —  Israelated - English Israel blogs
  • Here's what will work: the Aleph tailcap ($45), available at OSCommerce (oreilly. com / go / aleph) or the McE2S LOTC two-stage switch DIY Kit ($30, lets you mod the stock switch to give two light levels), available at —  MAKE Magazine
  • Should. short fts_level; / * depth (-1 to N) * / fts_level is short type, no aleph zero - —  SecuObs.com
  • If the Hebrew language is not written with vowels, why is the word חטא (sin) written with an aleph at the end? —  A Simple Jew
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  1. Hebrew 'ālep, of Phoenician origin; see אlp in Semitic roots.

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  1. Hebrew 'āleph = Arabic 'alif: see alpha.
 

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/ˈeɪlɛf/
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