How the aleph tells us about God
Hebrew letters have many attributes, and each is a riddle which speaks of God.
These are some the attributes:
- Order or position in the alphabet: the aleph is first.
- A number value: the aleph is 1
- A meaning using notarikon (splitting it into smaller parts): the aleph א is yod י vav ו yod י
- The meaning of it's name: Spelled out aleph אלף is meaning teach, learn, one thousand, chief, or אלוף meaning duke, guide, friends, governors, captains, governor, ox, tame, docile, friend, intimate, chief
- The number of it's name: if spelled אלף it is 831 or 3. If spelled אלוף then it is 837 or 9.
- The formation of the name: א(ל)ף, א-ל-ף, אל-ף , א-לף
- The gate (a reversal gives an opposite sense): פלא
In order for God to hide a riddle in the historical events, there must be meaning hidden inside the symbols (numbers, letters and words) which relate those ideas.
Often the accusation of eisegesis, putting meaning into a text, is leveled at the New Testament author method of interpreting scripture. but the meaning is already there and made available to create the riddles. We need only observe them.