Code of the day · 2026-02-12
Thursday · 25 Shvat 5786
Person of the day
Three names from three eras sharing one small number
The prophet of exile who saw the valley of dry bones and heard the question: can these bones live? His visions are the most visual in the Tanakh.
A student of the Vilna Gaon who founded a yeshiva of a new kind — not attached to a community but standing on its own.
Danish physicist who explained the structure of the atom. Nobel Prize 1922; in 1943 he escaped occupied Denmark by fishing boat.
What connects them
All three are remembered for words: spoken, written or performed — and the words outlived them.
Three points define a plane: a structure that no longer wobbles. A day to fix what has been reached rather than look for a fourth support.
What is the thing you have long thought but never once said out loud?
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
25 + 311 = 336 · 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.
Remembered today
1809–1883, founder of the Musar movement. He held that character is worked on like any other subject — by daily study, out loud, at a fixed hour — and not left to good intentions.
Psalms of the day
Under the customary division of the book of Psalms across the thirty days of the month, today's reading is 119:1-96.
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
Three points define a plane: a structure that no longer wobbles. A day to fix what has been reached rather than look for a fourth support.
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.