"Many ideas of modern mathematics are based on the work of the same functional modules of a human brain, which served in the last history of mankind and form now a basis for the creation of religious feelings." To substantiate his claim, he adds that "both spiritual experiences and experiences of a more ordinary material nature are made real to the mind in the very same way - through the processing powers of the brain and the cognitive function of the mind." (from Andrew Newberg and others, "Why God Won't Go Away"
In the Jewish religious tradition of Kabbalah, the letter "aleph" designates "the infinite nature and exclusiveness of existence of the God". Cantor had purposely chosen a symbol "aleph" for the designation of actual infinity: his attempts to understand the absolute infinity actually represented his attempt to approach the essence of the God.
Now we shall return to a problem of the brain hemispheric asymmetry. We shall recollect, that religious experiences are connected to the activity of the right hemisphere, and that that mental disease, depression, which suffered Cantor is connected to same activity. Was George Cantor's mental disease really connected to subjects of his scientific researches? It cannot be proved with certainty, but such an assumption is rather probable. And yet, strangely enough, the other great mathematician who successfully continued and developed the ideas of George Cantor--Kurt Goedel-also concluded his life in a condition of heavy mental illness.
But in fact it is far from being true that all great scientists showed attributes of mental illnesses. For example, Isaac Newton was a deep and sincere believing Christian, and his faith did not prevented him to become one of the greatest scientists of mankind. Apparently, the point is in the harmonious interaction of Reason and Belief.
The Knowledge and the Belief are localized separately: Knowledge in the left hemisphere; Belief, in the right one.
Aleph. drawn as shown above. The literal meaning of aleph is ox or bull. The symbolic meaning of this letter is: God, strength, strong leader. It shows God's mastery and oneness.
In the ancient Hebrew, it was drawn like the head of an ox which is part of the original meaning of the letter. The literal meaning is "strong leader, strength, master, 1 or 1000.
A young, inexperienced oxen would be yoked with a full grown ox accustomed to ploughing, and the younger would learn from the older because of the latter's size and great strength, he would literally drag the young ox around in the proper direction as commanded by the ploughman.
Alef is formed by two yuds, one to the upper right and the other to the lower left, joined by a diagonal vav. These represent the higher and lower waters and the firmament between them, as taught by the Ari z"l ("Rabbi Isaac Luria of blessed memory," who received and revealed new insights into the ancient wisdom of Kabbalah)
Water is first mentioned in the Torah in the account of the first day of Creation: "And the spirit of God hovered over the surface of the water." At this time the higher and the lower waters were indistinguishable; their state is referred to as "water in water." On the second day of Creation God separated the two waters by "stretching" the firmament between them.
In the beginning of Creation, when Infinite Light filled all reality, G d contracted His Light to create hollow empty space, as it were, the "place" necessary for the existence of finite worlds. Into this vacuum God drew down, figuratively speaking, a single line of light, from the Infinite Source. This ray of light is the secret of the letter vav. Though the line is singular in appearance, it nonetheless possesses two dimensions, an external as well as an internal force, both of which take part in the process of Creation and the continuous interaction between the creative power and created reality.
The numerical value of the letters is interesting when one understands the meaning of numbers. For example, Aleph
the first letter stands for unity, for origin, for power, stability. Its shape reflects this. The shape of the letter Aleph is made of two Yods divided by a slash what actually is the fifth letter Vau 
. As we mentioned in the above, Yod 
is the primal vibration, the point of light out of which everything came. Emanation arose when the Divine Light, as Yod, reflected upon itself, that is, mirrored itself into the lower world, hence the two Yods divided by a slash. In Gematria, the system of where every word us analyzed numerological according the numeric value of each letter, the numerical value of Aleph is 1 + 30 + 80 = 111. We can interpret the number 111 is different ways.
There are three one's reflecting the Trinity.
111 = 1 + 10 + 100: In Gematria, the unities in numbers relate to the divine world, the tens relates to the spiritual world, and the hundreds relate to the physical world. Thus 111 contains unity in each of the three worlds.
The Fibonacci spiral is the apparent basis for the Hebrew alphabet, as well as the Greek, Arabic, and Sanskrit alphabets, making it the root of the universal language used at the Tower of Babel. It all started when he discovered a pattern in the original Hebrew letters of the first sentence of Genesis - a pattern that appeared when he counted the letters in base three. He then placed these letters into geometric shapes based on that pattern. When placed in a square shape, with like letters placed next to each other in concentric square rings, the result was what looks like a “bird’s eye view” of a seven-stepped ziggurat like the Tower of Babel. When this was then placed upon a torus or “doughnut”-shaped surface, and the excess space stripped away, what Stan Tenen had was a three-dimensional representation of the Fibonacci spiral, a shape that can be found in numerous occurrences of nature, including the shape of a developing fetus, and the horns of a ram. This somewhat snakish, flame-like shape Tenen then placed inside of a crystal tetrahedron - a four-sided prism or pyramid. When light was shined through the object in a shadow-box, Tenen found that he could form every single letter of the Hebrew alphabet - in order - just by changing the position of the shape relative to the crystal. With a slightly different orientation, he was able to produce the letters of other alphabets as well. Appropriately, Tenen named the shape the “flame letter.”Fibonacci spiral is the apparent basis for the Hebrew alphabet, as well as the Greek, Arabic, and Sanskrit alphabets, making it the root of the universal language used at the Tower of Babel. It all started when he discovered a pattern in the original Hebrew letters of the first sentence of Genesis - a pattern that appeared when he counted the letters in base three. He then placed these letters into geometric shapes based on that pattern. When placed in a square shape, with like letters placed next to each other in concentric square rings, the result was what looks like a “bird’s eye view” of a seven-stepped ziggurat like the Tower of Babel. When this was then placed upon a torus or “doughnut”-shaped surface, and the excess space stripped away, what Stan Tenen had was a three-dimensional representation of the Fibonacci spiral, a shape that can be found in numerous occurrences of nature, including the shape of a developing fetus, and the horns of a ram. This somewhat snakish, flame-like shape Tenen then placed inside of a crystal tetrahedron - a four-sided prism or pyramid. When light was shined through the object in a shadow-box, Tenen found that he could form every single letter of the Hebrew alphabet - in order - just by changing the position of the shape relative to the crystal. With a slightly different orientation, he was able to produce the letters of other alphabets as well. Appropriately, Tenen named the shape the “flame letter.”
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