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Primary metaphor

The aleph is first noticed by it's absence in the beginning of Genesis 1:1 which starts with the bet; the second letter of the alphabet. Modern rabbis remember to ask the question; Why does it not start with the aleph, but they do not remember the proper answer. They attribute personality to the letter and say that it was humble.

It's meaning from the strokes, as seen previously, is: God spoke and created the heavens and the earth. Being a silent letter (not pronounced) and in Genesis 1:1 an absent letter or invisible letter, it means that when God spoke and created the heavens and the earth, there was no one there to see or hear him do it. ^[1]

The first visible aleph is in the first word of Ge 1:1 בראשית bereshith 'in the beginning'. In sequence, letter by letter bereshith says, a revelation to man ב, it is revealed that ר, God spoke and created the heavens and the earth א. It has the same meaning as the first invisible occurrence.

It can also be read in combination with other letters from bereshith.

bar-a

bar-a בר-א -- the son בר spoke and created the heavens and the earth א. ^[2]

bara ברא

created. Previously stated, the Word pre-existed creation. And since words are used to make the Father known, and only the Son makes him known, the Word is the Son AND the Son is the Word. The word bara says that the son created, but it also says the Word created or the Word who created. The aleph has the same meaning as before.

ra רא

see. Seeing is a metaphor for understanding. <ref>Isa 41:20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.

The second visible aleph is in the second word of Ge 1:1 at the end of bara ברא create.

References

1. ↑ Job 38:4 ¶ Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
2. ↑ Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.