Code of the day · 2027-06-09
Wednesday · 4 Sivan 5787
כִּי תִפְגַּע שׁוֹר אֹיִבְךָ אוֹ חֲמֹרוֹ תֹּעֶה הָשֵׁב תְּשִׁיבֶנּוּ לוֹ ס
«If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.»
Shmot (Exodus) 23:4 · page 130 of 354
This is from the portion “Mishpatim” (Exodus 21–24). What it is about: Laws of the servant, damages, theft and pledges; “an eye for an eye” as compensation; the sabbatical year; “we will do and we will hear”.
Nobody picked it: the letters of today's date add up to 130, and that is page 130 of the 354 pages of the Torah — the first five books of the Bible.
The same number was already written down around 1300: לצוד = מן גזל
In the database it appears 35 times across 25 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
The disciple who did not depart from the tent, and one of the two scouts who returned with a good report. He brought the people into the land.
Rabbi of Prague and Hamburg, a master of law and a preacher. His long dispute with Rabbi Yaakov Emden split the communities of Europe.
Painter and engineer who left thousands of pages of mirror-written notes — and very few finished paintings.
What connects them
All three built slowly and without guarantees: their work rests on patience, not on a flash.
Four sides, four walls. A day for sorting rather than designing: lay it out, finish it, make it firm. The foundation matters more than the facade today.
What in your life needs not a decision but simply one more day of work?
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
4 + 126 = 130 · total
This week's portion
Shavuot II (on Shabbat)
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 23-28.
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
Four sides, four walls. A day for sorting rather than designing: lay it out, finish it, make it firm. The foundation matters more than the facade today.
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 130 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.