Code of the day · 2026-02-09
Monday · 22 Shvat 5786
Person of the day
Three names from three eras sharing one small number
Head of the family of Kohath. It was he who was told to carry the fallen out of the camp — work no one argues over.
A rabbi and doctor of philosophy who taught in New York. He wrote of the person who at once masters the world and seeks meaning in it.
She hid two years in an Amsterdam annex and kept a diary. It has been translated into more than seventy languages.
What connects them
For all three the main thing became visible at the end: the sum turned out larger than any single act.
Nine is the last digit: after it the count begins again. A day for closing rather than opening. Good for finishing things and settling debts, financial and otherwise.
What would you want to finish before starting something new?
How the small number works: the digits are added until one remains. Non-Hebrew names are written in Hebrew letters by ordinary transliteration; variants exist, and the number depends on the spelling. We show the letters so it can be checked. This is a coincidence of counting, not a claim about fate. It is interesting exactly insofar as you can see how it was counted.
How it is obtained
22 + 311 = 333 · total
This week's portion
Mishpatim משפטים
This Hebrew date across 301 years
A Torah word with this number
This happens more often than the meeting does: measured, the number of the week and the number of the date meet on roughly one day in three. Saying so plainly is the method.
A name from this week's portion
This figure acts in the portion read this week. Their number is shown alongside — with no claim that it matches anything.
Psalms of the day
Under the customary division of the book of Psalms across the thirty days of the month, today's reading is 106-107.
Text: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0. The four-letter Name is not printed in our output and is replaced by ה׳.
Reading of the reduced number
Nine is the last digit: after it the count begins again. A day for closing rather than opening. Good for finishing things and settling debts, financial and otherwise.
What follows is an interpretation, not a calculation. The reduced number comes from adding the digits; everything else on this page can be checked, and this cannot.
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Text and morphology: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0. Calendar and portion boundaries: hebcal. Memorial dates follow tradition or the sources noted with each entry.