daq, what is your source for the tav/vav mark? Citations please. You should think about all the gentle readers who are not familiar...
In addition to the fact that many are already teaching such things online, (that the taw can be understood as a sign or ot for a covenant), I found a nice introduction here in this forum by Yinonyavo back in 2003, (
The Hebrew letter TAV the "mark of the Covenant").
We have also from the scripture the overt symbolism of the two sticks or rods broken, in Zechariah 11:7-17, symbolizing the breaking of a covenant and of the brotherhood between Yhudah and Yisrael. In Ezekiel 37:16-28 we have the same symbolism of two sticks joined into one.
Moreover the final letter, being the sign for a covenant, makes much sense because it implies everything that came before it, (in other words, in the sense of a covenant, all covenants and everything in between would be included). If you check out my previous post about the heavenly spheres character set, the alef-taw would have more likely been the 24th and final letter, and thus, truly the symbolism would be perfect as the alef-taw implies the whole character set: everything from the beginning to the end. IMO what fell away from the character set and was lost was the letter feh, and thus the peh was used to fill in for it.
Therefore, if there was a single letter representing the alef-taw, and there was also a letter feh, then there were originally twenty-four characters in the set: an earth commensurate number, (twelve tribes, twelve months, twelve hours in a day, twelve hours in a night, twenty-four courses of the Kohanim, and so on and so on).
Addendum: I also suspect that the Greek word for the alef-taw is telos, (τελος), which makes much sense seeing how this word is used in passages like Revelation 22:13, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Protos and the Eschatos, the Arche and the
Telos." Moreover Paul says in Romans 10:4 that the telos of the Torah is Meshiah for righteousness to every one who believes. Telos is a point aimed at, a goal, (as I am sure you know), something pointed at, which is the same way in which the alef-taw is used in the Torah, that is, a pointer to point out the object of a verb. Here is an example of the heavenly spheres character set rendering Genesis 1:1.
Using the spheres or circles there would have been no need for pointing the text. The circle or sphere represents the open mouth vowel sound ah. When you make that sound your mouth is open and nearly in the form of a circle, (very simple primitive logic). The same letters without the sphere are a different vowel, for example, the first letter is bet without the circle, so the bet with the vowel is
be-reshiyt. In the second word, bara, the bet has the sphere because the vowel sound with the consonant is bah, as in bara. The alef-taw or telos is the twenty-fourth letter pointing out the objects of the verb bara.
This alef-taw (ayil-tel) symbol was found in the descending passage of the Great Pyramid exactly twenty-three cubits and a handbreadth down the passage on the east sidewall. It is the ayil (alef) and the tel (taw) superimposed and placed within a circle or sphere.
Since the passage is on an angle the mekutzah or angle cubit is in use. This cubit is twenty-one thumbs. The center of the alef-taw is located at the exact beginning of the twenty-fourth cubit in the passage, that is, four hundred and eighty-three thumbs down the passage.
23 cubits of 21 thumbs = 483 thumbs
23*21 = 483
7*69 = 483
