The third letter balances the contradictions. This letter is seen as the bridge between the opposites that have arisen from the second letter, the Bet. The third letter of the alphabet, Gimel, has a number value of three. This duality means contradictions created by God, such as day and night, light and darkness, the waters and the dry earth, the sun, and the moon. Because two is the numerical value of this letter, this letter stands for duality in creation. Bet בīet is the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet. This is expressed in the central confession of Israel: “Listen, Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is the only one!” (Deuteronomy 6: 4). This letter symbolizes that there is only one God and Creator. Alef refers to unity and in particular, to the unity of God. The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet is the Alef. Each letter in Hebrew also has a certain number of value. The twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet each have a symbolic meaning. The letters from the heart of the language and of the Hebrew religion. The meaning of the Hebrew letters transcends the sound for which they stand. Each Hebrew letter has a name and identity. Spiritual meaning of the Hebrew alphabet. 13-14) The symbolic meaning of the Hebrew letters Twenty-two letters: He (God) designed them, carved them out, weighed them, combined them, and exchanged them, each with all through them, He formed the entire creation and everything that still had to be created. The Dutch author Harry Mulisch wrote about these twenty-two Hebrew letters in his book ‘The procedure’.įor do not forget that the world was created in Hebrew that would not have been possible in another language, least of all in Dutch, whose spelling is not certain until heaven and earth perish. The story of creation is written with the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The vowels, the soul of language, are invisible. The Hebrew letters form the visible body of the words.

The Alef does not have the sound of the ‘a’, as you would expect, but the sound of a hard tap in the throat. The Hebrew alphabet consists of twenty-two letters. They have also been given a numerical value that can be used for calculations. The Hebrew letters have a symbolic meaning. This Hebrew letter is not just a number of abstract linguistic elements that you can use to compile words and sentences, as is the case with the letters in the Dutch language.

Symbolism of letter h