Aleph is the subject of a midrash which praises its humility in not demanding to start the Old Testament. In Hebrew the Bible begins with the second letter of the alphabet, Bet. In this folktale, ...

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As part of her capstone project at her Tel Aviv-area college, graphic artist Michal Shomer revamped the Hebrew alphabet — adding a dozen new letters to make the 3,000-year-old language more inclusive ...

'The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter': The shape of aleph-bets to come - review The rise of a whole new profession of calligraphy artists, often with little or no connection with tradition, has meant a ...

Hillel Smith, “Who Brings Forth Bread from the Land” (2016) (image courtesy Brandeis University Press) “A beautiful Hebrew letter, as I understand it, needs to have not only surface beauty but also an ...

https://doi.org/10.2979/aleph.19.2.0269 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/aleph.19.2.0269 Copy URL There are five copies of the Parisian Alfonsine Tables ...