So God compensates him by making the aleph the first letter of the word for God. |
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Thus all infinite sequences of natural numbers have the same power, aleph zero. |
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Similarly, it is customary to write Yehudah with an aleph rather than a final hey, lest one accidentally leave out the letter dalet and write the Tetragrammaton. |
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The first word of the poem begins with aleph, the first letter of the alphabet, and the last one begins with the last letter, taw. |
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Daneri is using the aleph to write a terrible poem that minutely and pointlessly describes everything on earth. |
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In another classic instance of more-is-less, Prior, who was jolted by a sudden vision of a neon aleph in Part I, is now shown the better part of the Hebrew alphabet. |
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Its name is thought to have corresponded closely to the Hebrew or Arabic aleph. |
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More generally, to assume that any cardinality is represented in the scale of aleph numbers is to assume in particular that any set can be well-ordered. |
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Indeed, as was stated above, the hypothesis that the scale of aleph numbers is sufficient amounts to the claim that any set can be 'counted' by some ordinal. |
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More likely, he is an aleph, an eventful trompe-l'oeil, the ornamental archivolt of Italy's exploded order, the empty barycenter of Italy's populist constructivism. |
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Kabbalists believe that every letter of the Hebrew Aleph Beth has a hidden meaning. |
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It is tempting to ask oneself what Borges would have done with The Fattened Aleph. |
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Short stories such as Ficciones and The Aleph are among his most famous works. |
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The Hebrew alphabet, the Aleph Beit, is said by the Kabbalists to embody wonderful and miraculous powers. |
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