Code of the day · 2027-02-02
Tuesday · 25 Shvat 5787
וְנִגְּשָׁה יְבִמְתּוֹ אֵלָיו לְעֵינֵי הַזְּקֵנִים וְחָלְצָה נַעֲלוֹ מֵעַל רַגְלוֹ וְיָרְקָה בְּפָנָיו וְעָנְתָה וְאָמְרָה כָּכָה יֵעָשֶׂה לָאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר לֹא־יִבְנֶה אֶת־בֵּית אָחִיו
«then shall his brother's wife draw nigh unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say: 'So shall it be done unto the man that doth not build up his brother's house.'»
Devarim (Deuteronomy) 25:9 · page 336 of 354
This is from the portion “Ki Teitzei” (Deuteronomy 21–25). What it is about: “When you go out”: seventy-four commandments — the bird's nest, honest weights, divorce, remembering Amalek.
Nobody picked it: the letters of today's date add up to 336, and that is page 336 of the 354 pages of the Torah — the first five books of the Bible.
Three names from three eras meet on the same small number.
The same number was already written down around 1450?: וג פעמים אלהים = שלו (with the ±1 correction)
In the database it appears 6 times across 5 books. We do not claim this proves anything: we show who wrote it and when, and we recounted it ourselves.
Today is the name's day of: Marcelo. And your name?
Person of the day
Three names from three eras sharing one small number
Aaron's youngest son. He was put in charge of the count and the record of everything carried when the Tabernacle moved.
The Arizal's principal student. Everything known of his teacher's doctrine is known because Vital wrote it down.
He sailed on a whaler and wrote Moby-Dick, which failed in his lifetime. He died a customs officer.
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.
More
- The number 336 in full
- Calculator, 25 methods
- Method and figures
- This date across 301 years
- Your own birth code
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.