Code of the day · 2027-02-18
Thursday · 11 Adar 5787
וְאִם־בְּהֵמָה אֲשֶׁר יַקְרִיבוּ מִמֶּנָּה קָרְבָּן לַה׳ כֹּל אֲשֶׁר יִתֵּן מִמֶּנּוּ לַה׳ יִהְיֶה־קֹּדֶשׁ
«And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto HaShem, all that any man giveth of such unto HaShem shall be holy.»
Vayikra (Leviticus) 27:9 · page 216 of 354
This is from the portion “Bechukotai” (Leviticus 26–27). What it is about: “If you walk in My statutes”: blessings for faithfulness and admonitions; vows and valuations; the tithe.
Nobody picked it: the letters of today's date add up to 216, and that is page 216 of the 354 pages of the Torah — the first five books of the Bible.
The same number was already written down around 1450?: חרבו = ריו
In the database it appears 82 times across 41 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: Arie, Harry. And your name?
Person of the day
Three names from three eras sharing one small number
The first man, whose name comes from adamah, earth. He was given the task of naming every living thing.
A rabbi and doctor of philosophy who taught in New York. He wrote of the person who at once masters the world and seeks meaning in it.
A doctor and educator who wrote about the rights of the child long before they became law. He refused rescue and went with the children of his orphanage to the end.
What connects them
For all three the main thing became visible at the end: the sum turned out larger than any single act.
Nine is the last digit: after it the count begins again. A day for closing rather than opening. Good for finishing things and settling debts, financial and otherwise.
What would you want to finish before starting something new?
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
11 + 205 = 216 · total
This week's portion
Tetzaveh תצוה
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
Chaim Yosef David Azulai, 1724–1806, Jerusalem. A bibliographer and a traveller: he crossed the communities of Europe as an emissary of the Land of Israel and catalogued hundreds of manuscripts nobody else would have counted.
Psalms of the day
Under the customary division of the book of Psalms across the thirty days of the month, today's reading is 60-65.
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
Nine is the last digit: after it the count begins again. A day for closing rather than opening. Good for finishing things and settling debts, financial and otherwise.
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 216 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.