Code of the day · 2026-09-16
Wednesday · 5 Tishrei 5787
Person of the day
Three names from three eras sharing one small number
Mother of Moses, Aaron and Miriam. She hid her son three months, then herself placed him in a basket on the water.
The Light of the Exile. His ordinances are the source of the Ashkenazi ban on polygamy and of the ban on reading another's letters.
He put the car on a moving assembly line and made it cheap enough for his own workers to buy. He is also known for antisemitic publications, for which he later issued an apology.
What connects them
History ties all three to a home, a family or a community: their work is measured by what was left to the people around them.
Six is the six days of work, after which there is something to stop for. A day of home, of family, of what is done for others. Mend something, set the table, make the call.
Who near you today needs not an opinion but simply your presence?
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
5 + 910 = 915 · total
This week's portion
Ha'azinu האזינו
This Hebrew date across 301 years
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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 29-34.
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
Six is the six days of work, after which there is something to stop for. A day of home, of family, of what is done for others. Mend something, set the table, make the call.
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.