Breaking The Jewish Code Perry Stone

between the seventh and tenth centuries a.d. by a group called the Masoretes, who placed these marks under and above the letters to indicate how the text was to be chanted in the synagogue. The original form of the Hebrew alphabet was actually word pictures. The older text, called the Proto-Canaanite script, consisted of twenty-two forms that represented common images. For example, the first Hebrew letter is alef , and the last (twenty-second letter) is tav . The word picture for alef is the head of an ox, and the word picture of the tav is a cross or a