Aleph

Having mastered the building blocks of the alefbet--the vav and the yud--Miri discovers the secret of letter number one: The Alef. It's the secret of making one out of many.

"Beit!" cried the angry little Aleph to G-d. "Beit is a nice little house with a roof and walls to hold out the Infinite Light and a little door on one side to let a trickle in. And You chose that constipated, square-headed letter over me!"

The Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi,  1747-1812. The first Rebbe, or leader, of the Chassidic movement known alternately as Chabad or Chabad Lubavitch. wanted to teach his son the alef-beis. He called one of his disciples into his study ...

Why is Adam's name spelled with a big Alef and Abraham's with a small one?

Meditate on the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

Man has shrunk over the centuries. At the same time, our planet became an infinitesimal speck in a universe of mind-numbing vastness. Did we become humbler?

Moving along with the Alefbet, Rabbi Infinity illustrates the power of the letter Vav to his granddaughter, Miri.