Code of the day · 2027-05-27
Thursday · 20 Iyyar 5787
וּבְנֻחֹה יֹאמַר שׁוּבָה ה׳ רִבְבוֹת אַלְפֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל ס
«And when it rested, he said: 'Return, O HaShem, unto the ten thousands of the families of Israel.'»
Bamidbar (Numbers) 10:36 · page 241 of 354
This is from the portion “Behaalotcha” (Numbers 8–12). What it is about: Lighting the lampstand; the second Passover; the cloud leads the camp; quail and complaints; Miriam and tzaraat.
Nobody picked it: the letters of today's date add up to 241, and that is page 241 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 1573: ידוד הוא עצמו = ידוד ויאר (with the ±1 correction)
In the database it appears 6 times across 4 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: Laura. And your name?
Person of the day
Three names from three eras sharing one small number
Jacob's second son. With Levi he answered his sister's disgrace with force — and heard his father's rebuke for it before he died.
A commentator, poet, grammarian and astronomer who spent half his life on the road between Spain, Italy, France and England.
In two plague years of quarantine he set out the laws of motion and gravitation. He himself said he stood on the shoulders of giants.
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
20 + 221 = 241 · total
This week's portion
Bechukotai בחקתי
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 97-103.
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 241 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.