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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.

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