Code of the day · 2026-03-31
Tuesday · 13 Nisan 5786
Person of the day
Three names from three eras sharing one small number
A Moabite who told her mother-in-law 'where you go, I will go'. From her came the royal line of David.
Rabbi of Krakow who added Ashkenazi custom to the Shulchan Aruch. Because of that one code became common to all communities.
Thirty-eight plays that have never left the stage. Hundreds of English phrases first appear in his writing.
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
13 + 170 = 183 · total
This week's portion
Pesach Shabbat Chol ha-Moed
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.
Psalms of the day
Under the customary division of the book of Psalms across the thirty days of the month, today's reading is 69-71.
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.