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aleph (ä´lèf, -lef) noun
The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
[Hebrew 'alep, from 'elep, ox, from Canaanite 'alp.]

Aleph: A point or state where an infinite amount of information is stored and processed. [Mitchell Porter] - from Terminology from The Omega Point Theory Mailing List

• track _Aleph1_ MP3 by Photek
• short story _The Aleph_ by Jorge Luis Borges

first mention of Aleph in Usenet:

From: hou5e!mat (hou5e!mat)
Subject: Re: The Funny Nature of Infinity
Newsgroups: net.math
Date: 1983-01-29 02:25:36 PST

Sharad Singal states that the number of points in a line, and the number of points in a square are both infinite, but that the second infinity is greater than the first ... this does not agree with what I learned.  My understanding is that both of these infinities belong to aleph 1, and that aleph null is reserved for denumerable infinities.  Can someone set me straight ?
                                        -Mark Terribile

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