The Atbash Letter Transformation (אתבש)

At-bash is a basic "reflective" transformation pattern, wherein the first and last letters of the alef-beit transform into one another, as do the second and second-to-last, and so on.

The name at-bash is a reference to the first two of these transformation pairs: alef-tav and beit-shin.

This is the alphabetic transformation whose elements correspond to the sefirot within the partzuf of binah--Imma.

At-bash
alef	tav
beit	shin
gimmel	reish
dalet	kuf
hei	tzadik
vav	pei
zayin	ayin
chet	samech
tet	nun
yud	mem
kaf	lamed

This section of our website is an abridged version of material appearing in Harav Ginsburgh's book, The Hebrew Letters.