Code of the day · 2027-02-04
Thursday · 27 Shvat 5787
וַה׳ הֶאֱמִירְךָ הַיּוֹם לִהְיוֹת לוֹ לְעַם סְגֻלָּה כַּאֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּר־לָךְ וְלִשְׁמֹר כָּל־מִצְוֺתָיו
«And HaShem hath avouched thee this day to be His own treasure, as He hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all His commandments;»
Devarim (Deuteronomy) 26:18 · page 338 of 354
This is from the portion “Ki Tavo” (Deuteronomy 26–29). What it is about: “When you enter”: the first fruits and the declaration; the stones on Mount Ebal; blessings and admonitions.
Nobody picked it: the letters of today's date add up to 338, and that is page 338 of the 354 pages of the Torah — the first five books of the Bible.
The word with this number is read this very week.
The same number was already written down around 1300: בכף ירכו = לפוסלו מכהונה
In the database it appears 9 times across 4 books. We do not claim this proves anything: we show who wrote it and when, and we recounted it ourselves.
Person of the day
Three names from three eras sharing one small number
From his house came both Nahshon and Aaron's wife. One name links the tribe of Judah with the priesthood.
Rashi's grandson and head of the Tosafists. He argued with his grandfather where he thought it right — and those arguments themselves became part of the teaching.
He reduced electricity, magnetism and light to a few equations — and predicted radio waves twenty years before they were produced.
What connects them
Each of the three moved at some point — changed country, side or occupation, and that is exactly what defined them.
Five is the hand with five fingers, the number of grip and of change. A day when the plan has to be corrected as you go, and that is fine.
Where are you standing still only because it is familiar here?
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
27 + 311 = 338 · total
This week's portion
Mishpatim משפטים
This Hebrew date across 301 years
A Torah word with this number
A rare meeting: the number of today's date and a word from the portion read this week have come together.
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 120-134.
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
Five is the hand with five fingers, the number of grip and of change. A day when the plan has to be corrected as you go, and that is fine.
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 338 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.