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2 unusual facts about Alef


Alef

Aleph, the reconstructed name of the first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet

Liga Alef, the third tier of the Israeli football league system


Abuna Aregawi

The Nine Saints, Abba 'Afsé, Abba 'Aléf, Abba Gärima, Abba Guba, Abba Liqanos, Abba Pantelewon, Abba Sähma, Abba Yäm'ata and Abba Zä-Mika'él 'Arägawi were learned monks who revitalized Christianity in Ethiopia and to whom the Ge'ez version of the New Testament is attributed.

Kiryat Gat Railway Station

The station is accessible by intracity bus lines 1, 1-alef, 2-alef, 3-alef, 4 and 4-alef, and the regional bus line 011 that runs between Kiryat Gat and Shekef.

Sefer HaTemunah

According to Lawrence Kushner, author of The Book of Letters: A Mystical Alef-Bait, Sefer HaTemunah teaches that "every defect in our present universe is mysteriously connected with this unimaginable consonant", and that as soon as the missing letter is given to us, our Universe will be filled with undreamed of new words, the words that will turn repression into loving.


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