Beit is the house, and represents the House of G-d, being the place G-d rests as Shekinah in this world. It is also desire or passion and can be our longing for the goodness of G-d. It is also the blessing of G-d and represents pregnancy and the blessing of goodness coming into the world. It is the number two, which represents opposites coming ( Read more... )

The first letter of the Hebrew Aleph-Beth is Aleph.  It has no sound of its own and so represents silence.  Aleph means Ox, which is often used symbolically as Strength.  Mystically, Aleph represents the water above end the water below, when G-d separated the waters, and with the joining of the two.  The upper waters represent nearness to G-d and ( Read more... )