Malachim
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This article is about the Malachim alphabet. For the quasi-Chasidic dynasty, see Malachim (Chassidus).
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Malakh
In Judaism an angel is a messenger of God, an angelic envoy or an angel in general who appears throughout the Hebrew Bible, Rabbinic literature, and traditional Jewish liturgy.-Etymology:...

 (plural Malakhim), a type of angel in Judaism
Judaism
Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people...

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Malachim was an alphabet
Alphabet
An alphabet is a standard set of letters—basic written symbols or graphemes—each of which represents a phoneme in a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in the past. There are other systems, such as logographies, in which each character represents a word, morpheme, or semantic...

 published by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
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 in the 16th century. It is derived from Hebrew
Hebrew alphabet
The Hebrew alphabet , known variously by scholars as the Jewish script, square script, block script, or more historically, the Assyrian script, is used in the writing of the Hebrew language, as well as other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, and Judeo-Arabic. There have been two...

. Other alphabets with a similar origin are Celestial Alphabet
Celestial Alphabet
The Celestial alphabet was written about by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa in the 16th Century. Other alphabets with a similar origin are Transitus Fluvii and Malachim.-External links:*...

 and Transitus Fluvii
Transitus Fluvii
Transitus Fluvii , or Passage Du Fleuve , is an occult alphabet consisting of 22 characters described by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa in his Third Book of Occult Philosophy . It is derived from the Hebrew alphabet, and is similar to the Celestial and Malachim alphabets...

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"Malachim" is from Hebrew (מלאך, mal'ach), and means "angels" or "messengers".
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