Code of the day · 2027-04-14
Wednesday · 7 Nisan 5787
וַיִּשְׁחָט וַיִּקַּח מֹשֶׁה אֶת־הַדָּם וַיִּתֵּן עַל־קַרְנוֹת הַמִּזְבֵּחַ סָבִיב בְּאֶצְבָּעוֹ וַיְחַטֵּא אֶת־הַמִּזְבֵּחַ וְאֶת־הַדָּם יָצַק אֶל־יְסוֹד הַמִּזְבֵּחַ וַיְקַדְּשֵׁהוּ לְכַפֵּר עָלָיו
«And when it was slain, Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the remaining blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.»
Vayikra (Leviticus) 8:15 · page 177 of 354
This is from the portion “Tzav” (Leviticus 6–8). What it is about: The fire on the altar is never to go out; the priests' portion; the seven days of consecration of Aaron and his sons.
Nobody picked it: the letters of today's date add up to 177, and that is page 177 of the 354 pages of the Torah — the first five books of the Bible.
The word with this number appears in the Torah exactly once.
The same number was already written down around 1740: המקבל = גן עדן
In the database this is the only such record. 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
Mother of Dan and Naphtali. Her children entered the twelve, and the Torah makes no distinction in the count.
The Light of the Exile. His ordinances are the source of the Ashkenazi ban on polygamy and of the ban on reading another's letters.
A Viennese physician who proposed listening to dreams and slips of the tongue. He fled the Nazis to London a year before his death.
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
7 + 170 = 177 · total
This week's portion
Metzora מצרע
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 39-43.
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 177 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.