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Chumash gematria in plain words: how a name is read, where the day's number comes from, and why this is not fortune-telling.
What Chumash gematria is — and how it differs from numerology
The letter count used to read a name goes back centuries. How it differs from numerology and what it actually shows.
Read →Code of the Day · 02The day code by the Torah: why today is not like yesterday
Every day of the Torah's yearly cycle has its own number and its own verse. Where they come from and how they are counted.
Read →Name and time · 03The letter of the month: what your birth month carries
In the Western tradition a month gets a zodiac sign. In the Jewish one a month has a letter — and that can be stated precisely.
Read →Lineage · 04The ancestral code: what comes to you along the line through your surname
Your first name was chosen for you. Your surname was chosen by no one alive — it came down through the generations. And it, too, has its own number.
Read →Method · 05Nine counting systems: why one name has several numbers
Letters can be added in more than one way. Each counting system looks at a name from its own angle — and together they give depth, not one flat digit.
Read →Method · 06Atbash: your name read as a different word
An ancient way of reading: the first letter swaps with the last, the second with the second-to-last. Your name turns into another word — and it has meaning.
Read →Compatibility · 07Name compatibility: what the number says about a pair
Compatibility is not "a match or not." It is a map: where things come easily, where you'll have to negotiate, and what each person brings to the shared space.
Read →How to read the report · 08Pshat, remez, drash, sod: the four levels of reading — and of your report
The Jewish tradition of reading a text has four depths. The products of SAPIR 861 are built along the same four — from the free number to the full analysis.
Read →Numbers · 0952 — one of the most frequent numbers in the classical works
97 mentions in 53 works — one of the most frequent numbers in the base. Where that comes from, and what the word “son” has to do with it.
Read →Numbers · 10The number 18: חי — and what is actually written about it
The best-known “Jewish number” — and just 24 attestations in the sources. The Torah words that come to 18, and why the habit of giving in multiples of 18 is older than any of those books.
Read →Numbers · 11613: the number of the commandments, and what gematria does with it
20 attestations in 7 works, the earliest Rashi. Eight Torah words come to 613, and none of them is about commandments. Why that is fine.
Read →Try it on your own name
Each article describes part of the method. The free calculation on the home page shows these numbers for your own name, with the arithmetic open under each one.