Code of the day · 2027-03-05
Friday · 26 Adar 5787
וְהֵנִיף אוֹתָם הַכֹּהֵן תְּנוּפָה לִפְנֵי ה׳ קֹדֶשׁ הוּא לַכֹּהֵן עַל חֲזֵה הַתְּנוּפָה וְעַל שׁוֹק הַתְּרוּמָה וְאַחַר יִשְׁתֶּה הַנָּזִיר יָיִן
«And the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering before HaShem; this is holy for the priest, together with the breast of waving and the thigh of heaving; and after that the Nazirite may drink wine.»
Bamidbar (Numbers) 6:20 · page 231 of 354
This is from the portion “Naso” (Numbers 4–7). What it is about: The sotah — the test of the wife; the nazirite; the priestly blessing; the gifts of the tribal chiefs for the dedication of the altar.
Nobody picked it: the letters of today's date add up to 231, and that is page 231 of the 354 pages of the Torah — the first five books of the Bible.
The same number was already written down around 1450?: גבורה הוד = רלא
In the database it appears 13 times across 5 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
Moses' wife, daughter of the priest of Midian. On the decisive night she acted first and saved the family.
A second-century tanna. Tradition holds that he hid in a cave with his son for thirteen years from the Romans.
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
26 + 205 = 231 · total
This week's portion
Vayakhel ויקהל
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.
Psalms of the day
Under the customary division of the book of Psalms across the thirty days of the month, today's reading is 119:97-176.
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.
More
- The number 231 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.