1) If you don't know Psalms 23 is the Psalm that starts out with "The Lord is my Shepherd," than admittedly, this association to the number 23 might be a little more difficult, but there are other angles to go about this. The lamb is covered in white wool, words that start with "w" and "w" reminds us of the number 23 twice. It has two points downward and 3 points upward, and it just so happens that it is also the 23 letter of the alphabet. If you're a biologist you might think of babies (like lambs) coming from pairs of 23 chromosomes from each parent (hence the dandelion seeds in the background also), or if you're a chemist, you might think of the 23rd element, Vanadium, named after Vanadis, the Noris goddess of youth and love (and in our case, lovely little lambs), but hey, don't worry about all of that! Just look at the letter "w" bouncing around in the white water rapids next to the white woolly lamb, plug into the link between 23 and "w" and away we go!
2) The shape of shepherd's staff reaching down to rescue the little lamb is in the exact shape of the letter laem.
3) The sound of this letter is a simple "L" sound, but remember, all (Solar) Sun consonants stain over this white woolly sound with their own one when then get thrown in the wash with it by following this sound in the beginning of a word.
4) Obviously, this is the lightest of all letters being a white woolly little lamb. The actual pronunciation of the name of the letter is something between our English words Lamb and Lame, if you can say L-eh-m you've nailed it. But don't say my picture is lame! Ha!
5) It's a sunny day. This is a Solar Letter. Which is weird when you think of it. That means the letter "L" replaces the letter "L". But it's important to know if you want to be able to spell correctly because there is a little sign you have to write on top of sun letters called a shadda which means they double over the laem when they follow the laem, so you have to put this little sign on top of a second laem in a word.
AS A WORD
Laem is a busy little letter that makes many extremely important little words:
I. el means:
-- the (used much more pervasively than in English, lone words from Arabic like algebra come with the Arabic word for "the," "el," attached to the beginning of the word as "al" even though it should be "el.")
II. lae means:
-- no!, not, don't, non-, un-, in-, im-, dis-, a-, anti- (if it's lame, say "lae" to it.)
III. leu means:
-- if, in the conditional sense (like, if I would had been more careful, I would not have fallen in the ditch. But in lieu of cation, I had the Shepherd to save me.)
IV. li means:
-- for, to, because of, on account of (the lamb fell in the ditch because of the excess of leeway it had to explore)
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