Immediately a scroll fell from heaven with the word Truth (Emet) written on it, and a fiery lion immediately came out of the sanctuary. 64a.), the following is related: "The men of the great synagogue prayed to God to remove from the earth the Evil Inclination, as the cause of all trouble. Thus Emet is a sacred word expressing that in God, truth dwells absolutely and fully.
There is no one higher than He, and there will be no one after Him, since He is eternal. The Tav, or last letter, in like manner, signifies that God is the ultimate being. There was no one before Him of whom He could have received the fullness of truth. As the first letter of Emet, Aleph denotes that God is the first of all beings. God's absolute perfection is expressed in Isaiah 41:4 and 44:6 by the phrase, "I am the first and I am the last apart from me there is no God." The phrase fitly expresses the idea that God is unique and eternal, the beginning and end of all that exists. The fact that the word Emet begins with the first letter of the alphabet and ends with the last led the ancient Jewish rabbis to see in this word a mystical meaning. The Aleph and the Tav are the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet, equivalent to the Alpha and Omega in the New Testament scripture, which was originally written in Greek.
It is composed of three letters: Aleph, Mem, and Tav.
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