You write the cursive version of the letter Aleph according to the following pattern: Manual print is important to learn to help you recognize printed Hebrew type however, handwritten communication is normally written using Hebrew cursive. The numbered arrows show the order and direction for drawing the lines (the gray rectangle indicates the letter proportions in a graph paper cell). You write the manual print version of the letter Aleph according to the following pattern: You will learn manual print in order to recognize the printed Hebrew letters as they appear in Hebrew texts. Notice that the manual print form of Aleph resembles the book print version-except that the strokes of the lines are all even.
In modern Hebrew, the letter Aleph can appear in three forms: Aleph has no sound of its own, but usually has a vowel associated with it. The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet is called 'Aleph' (pronounced 'ah-lef').