The Midrash says; An ignoramus once entered into a Yeshiva and heard all that was being studied. He asked "How can I possibly learn so much?" Those who heard him answered "Begin with Aleph-Beit, proceed to Chumash, then go on to Mishna and Gamorah." HEBREW LETTER NUMERICAL VALUE HEBREW NAME PRONUNCIATION 01 ALEPH SILENT 02 BET BEH 02 VET VEH 03 GIMEL GEH 04 DALET DEH 05 HEY HEH 06 VAV VEH 07 ZAYEN ZEH 08 CHET CHEH 09 TET TEH 10 YUD YE 20 CHOF CHE 20 KOF KEH 30 LAMED LEH 40 MEM MEH 50 NUN NEH 60 SAMECH SEH 70 AYIN SILENT 80 PAY PEH 80 FAY FEH 90 TZADIK TZE 100 KOOF KEH 200 RESH REH 300 SIN SEH 300 SHIN SH 400 SAV SEH 400 TAV TEH The following letters are called "sofit." Final letters. They are used at the ends of words rather than at the beginning or within: HEBREW LETTER NUMERICAL VALUE HEBREW NAME PRONUNCIATION 500 CHOF-SOFIT CHE 600 MEM-SOFIT MEH 700 NUN-SOFIT NEH 800 FAY-SOFITTAV FEH 900 ZAYIN-SOFIT TZE Remember that the "CH" in the pronunciation category is not pronounced like "cherry" but rather like if one clears his throat. Click each active link above to learn the mystical significance of each letter and then to further enhance your knowledge, click on the following link

Within each letter there is hidden countless number of treasures. The power of creation and existence can be found within the Hebrew letters. When Adam Ha Rishon (Adam the first) named the animals, as written in the first book of Torah, within each name that he gave the animals existed, and still does, every aspect and character of that animal. Within the word; (DAG = Fish), every possible attribute that a fish has is specified. Our Scriptures teach us that the Universe was created with ten utterances, not words. The utterances of Hashem were and are the foundation of all existence. We have learned in Chumash Tips That all is born within the wisdom. And therefore, creation started within the wisdom of Hashem. Keeping this in mind, let me quote you a section of the Tanya From the Rebbe Schneur Zalman; When a man utters a word, this utterance in itself is as absolutely nothing even when compared only with his general articulate soul, which is the so called middle garment (speech), namely, its faculty of speech, which can produce speech without limit or end, all the more when it is compared with its so called innermost garment, to wit, its faculty of thought, which is the source of speech and its life force, not to mention when it is compared with the essence and entity of the soul, these being its ten attributes mentioned above, and so on, from which are derived the letters of thought that are clothed in the speech when it is uttered. For though can as much be defined in terms of letters as speech, except that in the former they are more spiritual and refined. But the ten attributes are the root and source of thought, and prior to their being clothed in the garment of thought, still lack the element of letters. For example, when a man suddenly becomes conscious of a certain love or desire in his heart, before it has risen from the heart to the brain to think and meditate about it, it has not yet acquired the element of letters, it is only a simple desire and longing in the heart for the object of his affection. All the more so before he began to feel in his heart a craving and desire for that thing, and it is as yet confined within the realm of his wisdom, intellect and knowledge, that is the thing is known to him to be desirable and gratifying, something good and pleasant to attain and cling to, as for instance to learn some wisdom or to eat some delicious food. Only after the desire and craving have already found their way into the heart, through the stimulus of his wisdom, intellect and knowledge, and thence ascended once more back to the brain, to think and meditate on how to translate his craving from the potential into the practical, with a view to actually obtaining the food, or acquiring that wisdom, it is here that the so called letters are born in his mind, such letters corresponding to the language of each nation, employing them in speech and thought about all things in the world. Okay. Got it? Creation is the desire of Hashem. Since it is His desire, it all began at the beginning, within His great wisdom. The utterances of the Holy Tongue is the result of wisdom turned into action and physical substance. Speech is the tool by which the souls of this world communicate, and therefore, it is also the tool which allows this world to continually exist. It is the revealed wisdom of Hashem.