Short readings and lessons from The House of the Highest One God Shall Be Destroyed — the ancient letters, the sound of Scripture's first word, and the Cross written into Genesis 1:1.
A 24-second journey: the first word of the Bible, the letters, and the Cross written from Aleph to Tav.
A short cinematic trailer for The House of the Highest One God Shall Be Destroyed — from Bereshit, the first word of Scripture, to the last letter drawn as a cross. Read the first chapter free or explore all 22 letters.
The first word of the Bible: beh · reh · SHEET. Read right to left, it means “in the beginning.”
The very first word of the Bible is Bereshit (בְּרֵאשִׁית), pronounced beh-reh-SHEET, with the stress on the last syllable. Hebrew is read right to left, and the word means “in the beginning.” In the ancient Paleo-Hebrew letters that spell it, the story of the whole book is already hidden.
Before God spoke light into existence, the story of the Cross was already written into the first word of the Bible.
A short cinematic reading from The House of the Highest One God Shall Be Destroyed. It opens on Genesis 1:1 — “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” — and shows how, in the original Paleo-Hebrew, the picture-letters of that first verse carry the shape of the Cross from the very first line of Scripture.
Read as ancient pictures: Hand · Behold · Nail · Behold.
God’s name is spelled with four Hebrew letters — Yod, Hey, Vav, Hey (יהוה), often written YHWH. In the ancient Paleo-Hebrew pictographs, those letters were a hand, behold, a nail, and behold again — “behold the hand, behold the nail.” The name itself carries a picture of the Cross. See the letter Vav (the nail) →
In ancient Hebrew, the final letter of the alphabet was drawn as a cross.
Tav (ת) is the twenty-second and final letter of the Hebrew alphabet. In its oldest Paleo-Hebrew form it was drawn as a simple cross — a “+” or “✕” — and it meant a mark, a sign, the seal of a covenant. The alphabet that begins with Aleph (God) ends with a cross. Explore the letter Tav →
ah-MEN — firm, faithful, certain: “let it be so, sure and true.”
Amen (אָמֵן) isn’t just a way to end a prayer. It comes from a Hebrew root that means firm, faithful, established — the same root behind the words for faith and truth. To say “amen” is to say, “this is sure and true — let it stand.”
shah-LOME — wholeness: nothing missing, nothing broken.
We translate Shalom (שָׁלוֹם) as “peace,” but the Hebrew means far more — completeness, wholeness, welfare. To bless someone with shalom is to wish them a life where nothing is missing and nothing is broken.
hah-leh-loo-YAH — “Praise Yah,” praise the name of God.
Hallelujah (הַלְלוּיָהּ) is two Hebrew words joined together: hallelu (“praise”) and Yah — the shortened name of God. Every time you sing it, you’re literally calling out “Praise Yah.” It’s the same divine name hidden inside YHWH.
See the letters for yourself — explore all 22 Paleo-Hebrew letters →