Aleph

A letter in Hebrew. Described as a mother letter in the Sepher Yetzirah, one of three.

Aleph is ascribed the number 111 by Gemetria.

The breath of life. Ain of the Ain Soph Aur.

He caused Aleph to reign in the air, and crown it, and combined one with the other, and with these he sealed the Air in the world, the temperate climate of the year, and the chest (the lungs for breathing air) in man; the male with A, M, SH, the female with SH, M, A. (from the Sepher Yetzirah)