It is a ligature of aleph and lamed.
There is a third one in that example in the middle of the next to last line.

tex

Phillip Driscoll wrote:

>
> I was looking at an old typefounder's specimen book
> (H. Berthold, 1924, Berlin), and in a sample of Hebrew
> text I noticed a character I've never seen before. It
> appears to be a ligature of some kind, perhaps aleph
> and lamed? I have scanned in an image to this site:
>
> http://www.marlboromats.com/Hebrew1.jpg
>
> I would be grateful if someone could enlighten me.
>
> Thanks,
> Phillip Driscoll
>
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