𐤀 א
Letter 1
Aleph
Ox Head · Strength · First · Leader
Verses 1 – 8
The 8 Opening Words
Each verse in this stanza opens with the letter Aleph. These are the 8 words — one per verse — that form the hidden sentence.
v.1
אַשְׁרֵי
Ashrei
Blessed
v.2
אַשְׁרֵי
Ashrei
Blessed
v.3
אַף
Af
Indeed
v.4
אַתָּה
Attah
You
v.5
אַחֲלַי
Achalai
Oh that
v.6
אָז
Az
Then
v.7
אוֹדְךָ
Odecha
I will praise You
v.8
אֶשְׁמֹר
Eshmor
I will keep
The Hidden Sentence
When you read only the opening word of each verse, a sentence emerges from the letter Aleph:
"Blessed, blessed — indeed YOU — oh that it were so — then I will praise You, I will keep."
The Teaching
The starting point of everything. Yahuah is the Strength, the First, the Leader of all things. Blessed is the one who encounters Him — and who resolves to praise and keep His Torah.
- Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
- Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
- They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
- Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
- O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
- Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
- I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
- I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
This Letter in the Complete Message
Here is where this letter's voice falls in the full 22-sentence narrative:
𐤀 א Aleph · Verses 1–8
Blessed and blessed is the one who encounters YOU, Yahuah — oh that I would always walk in this — then I will praise You and I will keep Your Torah.
The narrative continues through 21 more letters — up to Tav, the final seal.