Natalie Portman’s Baby Is Named Alef ?
Submitted by Shack on July 6, 2011 – 5:19 pm2 Comments
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Natalie Portman‘s been keeping a low profile since the birth of her son in June and many—myself included—have been wondering what the heck she named her boy. Rumor has it, she and fiancé Benjamin Millepied, whom she met on the set of Black Swan, named their newborn Alef.
That’s right, A-L-E-F.
Never heard the word before? Don’t worry, I know celebs sometimes name their kids crazy things, but this name has a lovely meaning. “Alef” is actually the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet and in case you didn’t know, Natalie is originally from Israel. Naming her child Alef sounds like a heartfelt ode to a country she holds dear.
What was she thinking. if you rearrange the the letters of ‘Alef’, it spells Flea. I guess Natalie Portman considers her baby to be an insect
Its actually from the Arabic alphabet, by looking at the hebrew alphabet, you can see there are lots of similarities from the Arabic alphabet.
according to wikipidia:
Before the adoption of the present script, Hebrew was written by the ancient Israelites using the paleo-Hebrew alphabet. During the 3rd century BC, Jews began to use a stylized form of the Aramaic alphabet,[1] The present “square script” Hebrew alphabet is a stylized version of the Aramaic alphabet which was adopted from that used by the Persian Empire.The Aramaic alphabet is historically significant, since virtually all modern Middle Eastern writing After the fall of the Persian Empire, Jews used both scripts before settling on the Aramaic form. For a limited time thereafter, the use of the paleo-Hebrew script among Jews was retained only to write the Tetragrammaton, but soon that custom was also abandoned.