About The Aleph Tav Project
The Mission
The Aleph Tav Project is an ongoing effort to explore the Hebrew Scriptures through their ancient language, combining interactive study tools, computational analysis, and original research. It is built on the conviction that the Hebrew text contains layers of meaning far beyond what surface-level translation can reveal, and that modern technology can help us see what has been embedded in the text for thousands of years.
The name comes from the Aleph (讗) and Tav (转), the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Throughout the Hebrew Scriptures, the untranslated marker 讗转 appears thousands of times as a grammatical particle that most translations skip entirely. This project explores the possibility that its placement is not random but purposeful, part of a larger pattern woven through the entire text.
Every tool and study on this site is designed to help readers engage with the Hebrew Scriptures more deeply: through the pictographic meanings of ancient letters, through patterns hidden in the text's mathematical structure, and through the covenant markers that track God's relationship with His people.
What You'll Find Here
Torah Decoder
An interactive interlinear Torah reader that lets you click any Hebrew word to see its Paleo-Hebrew pictographs, letter-by-letter meanings, and algorithmically generated interpretive sentences ranked by scholarly consensus.
The Ancient Alphabet
A complete reference for all 22 Hebrew letters, showing their pictographic origins, ideographic meanings, gematria values, and how they evolved from carved stone to modern script.
From Stone to Script
An educational journey through the history of the Hebrew alphabet, from Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions through the Babylonian Exile to the square script used in Torah scrolls today.
The Aleph Tav Study
Original research tracking the 讗转 covenant marker across the entire Hebrew Bible, revealing how it appears and disappears before personal names in correlation with covenant events.
Research Papers
A growing collection of original research exploring computational patterns, statistical analysis, and structural evidence within the Hebrew Scriptures.
About the Author
Tom Guadagno is the creator and researcher behind The Aleph Tav Project. His work combines a deep reverence for the Hebrew Scriptures with modern computational tools to uncover patterns and structures that traditional study methods can miss. The project began with a single question: what do the ancient pictographic letters reveal about the words they form? That question led to the Torah Decoder, which led to the Aleph Tav covenant marker study, which led to a broader investigation of the multi-layered encoding in the Hebrew text.
Tom's approach is rooted in his faith in Christ and a commitment to letting the text speak for itself. Every tool on this site is designed to bring readers closer to the original Hebrew, not to replace careful study but to enhance it with capabilities that were not possible before the digital age.
Sources and Attribution
Sefaria
Torah Hebrew text and English translations. Sefaria is a free, open-source library of Jewish texts.
Powered by SefariaOpen Scriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB)
Word-level morphological data with lexical annotations. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
hb.openscriptures.orgStrong's Hebrew Concordance
Hebrew dictionary mapping words to definitions, transliterations, and parts of speech. Public domain.
Paleo-Hebrew Letter Meanings
Compiled from multiple scholarly sources including the Ancient Hebrew Research Center, Father's Alphabet, and Hebrew4Christians.
The pictographic letter meaning matrix used in the Torah Decoder is an original compilation cross-referenced from multiple academic and popular sources. It is not a reproduction of any single author's work.
Feedback
This project is a labor of love and an ongoing work in progress. If you have feedback, corrections, or suggestions, feel free to reach out.