Mary (Teheuti) points precisely to the reason why I suggest that a good place to start, unless wanting a Golden Dawn orientation, is with Mark Filipas's Alphabetic Masquerade. Quoting from Mary's quote of Mark's work: "that both the Marseilles and Dellarocca patterns may have been intentionally designed as a Hebrew alphabetical sequence".
I also totally agree that Kabbalah is indeed much more than the letters, and that in itself Kabbalag has naught to do with tarot. Those who therefore seek overlays are obliged to choose and select what they consider in each 'unalterable', and alter the other accordingly. With the GD, such has included a totally new allocation of planets to the double letters, the usage of a variant of the Kircher version of the pattern of the Tree of Life, and, for tarot, the interchange of Justice and Strength... and perhaps also these alterations were influential in Waite deciding to have neither the Bateleur/Magician nor Hanged Man mimicking in form Alef and Lamed (a point with which Waite would have been aware) by switching left and right (respectively) arms and legs.
What Filipas does is present the only (thus far) possible intrinsic connection between tarot and - as pointed out, not so much Kabbalah as such, but the letters of the Hebrew alphabet (or, if preferred, alef-beit). And that, for anyone interested, is quite an achievement. As, however, critiqued by kwaw and others, this does not mean that an alternative sequence may not have been also possible, even a sequence that reflects the GD's Tarot-order preference. If, however, an alphabetic sequence was in part used and reflected in tarot's order, than it would be the order as then presented in at least some decks (ie, perhaps not the Visconti-Sforza types, but perhaps these together with an alphabetic sequence birthing what has come to be known as the Marseille-type).
Of course, if what one is after is Golden Dawn, then Mark Filipas becomes at best an interesting excursion - one that nonetheless also adds credence to the letter-atouts correlation used by, for example, Falconnier and others, and also (save for the last two cards of the Fool and XXI) by Levi, Wirth, Lasenic and a host of other important Tarot works and decks. In other words, Mark Filipas provides a good basis from which to understand the as important and as developed overlays made by the major Continental (European) esoteric Orders who also overlay Tarot and Kabbalah (though, as should be obvious, in a different manner to the GD).
Importantly, however, it also provides a basis for beginning to understand possible intrinsic overlaps between Tarot and Kabbalah. Even the GD, it should be remembered, begins not with a full blown Kabbalah on which it seeks to overlay the cards, but rather takes as its first step the Hebrew letters as somehow corresponding to the Atouts (and it takes that from E. Levi), and then alters these for preferred overlay.
My response, then, to perhaps begin with Filipas was not for those who wish to work with GD preferences.... but to the more general comment by coyoteblack who also says that s/he is "more into shamanism then cermonial magic for now", and wants "a form of Qabalah that will work well with tarot".