Code of the day · 2027-02-06
Saturday · 29 Shvat 5787
יְקִימְךָ ה׳ לוֹ לְעַם קָדוֹשׁ כַּאֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּע־לָךְ כִּי תִשְׁמֹר אֶת־מִצְוֺת ה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ וְהָלַכְתָּ בִּדְרָכָיו
«HaShem will establish thee for a holy people unto Himself, as He hath sworn unto thee; if thou shalt keep the commandments of HaShem thy G-d, and walk in His ways.»
Devarim (Deuteronomy) 28:9 · page 340 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 340, and that is page 340 of the 354 pages of the Torah — the first five books of the Bible.
The word with this number is read this very week — and it is rare in the whole Torah.
The same number was already written down around 1300: שם = מכפר
In the database it appears 25 times across 21 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
A judge told to cut his army from thirty-two thousand down to three hundred — so that the victory would not look like a matter of numbers.
1910–1995, Jerusalem. He worked out halakhah for a world of electricity, hospitals and transplants — calmly, and without fear of the new.
He began going deaf at thirty and wrote the Ninth Symphony without hearing it. At the premiere he had to be turned round to see the ovation.
What connects them
All three looked at what others did not see, and insisted on what they saw longer than was comfortable.
The seventh day is the one on which nothing is made. The number of completeness and of stopping. Today it suits better to look at what has been done than to add to it.
Where are you right but silent, because arguing costs more?
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
29 + 311 = 340 · 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 140-144.
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
The seventh day is the one on which nothing is made. The number of completeness and of stopping. Today it suits better to look at what has been done than to add to it.
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 340 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.