Code of the day · 2027-04-24
Saturday · 17 Nisan 5787
וְאִם מִפְּאַת פָּנָיו יִמָּרֵט רֹאשׁוֹ גִּבֵּחַ הוּא טָהוֹר הוּא
«And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead-bald; yet is he clean.»
Vayikra (Leviticus) 13:41 · page 187 of 354
This is from the portion “Tazria” (Leviticus 12–13). What it is about: The woman after childbirth; the laws of tzaraat on skin and garments — the signs and the priest's inspection.
Nobody picked it: the letters of today's date add up to 187, and that is page 187 of the 354 pages of the Torah — the first five books of the Bible.
The same number was already written down around 1573: ויט הם בגי קב = ונמצא
In the database it appears 2 times across 2 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
Aaron's second son, who died with his brother the same day. The Torah goes on naming them afterwards as well.
When Jerusalem was besieged he left the city and asked Rome not for victory but for a school at Yavneh.
The only footballer to win three World Cups. The first of them at seventeen.
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
17 + 170 = 187 · total
This week's portion
Pesach Shabbat Chol ha-Moed
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.
Psalms of the day
Under the customary division of the book of Psalms across the thirty days of the month, today's reading is 83-87.
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 187 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.