Code of the day · 2027-06-21
Monday · 16 Sivan 5787
וְהִקְטַרְתָּ אֶת־כָּל־הָאַיִל הַמִּזְבֵּחָה עֹלָה הוּא לַה׳ רֵיחַ נִיחוֹחַ אִשֶּׁה לַה׳ הוּא
«And thou shalt make the whole ram smoke upon the altar; it is a burnt-offering unto HaShem; it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto HaShem.»
Shmot (Exodus) 29:18 · page 142 of 354
This is from the portion “Tetzaveh” (Exodus 27–30). What it is about: “Command”: oil for the lamp; the priestly garments — the ephod, the breastplate with twelve stones; the consecration of the priests.
Nobody picked it: the letters of today's date add up to 142, and that is page 142 of the 354 pages of the Torah — the first five books of the Bible.
The same number was already written down around 1450?: בלעם = קמב
In the database it appears 10 times across 6 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 first farmer and the first killer. He was asked 'where is your brother', and answered with a question.
Moshe Schreiber, 1762–1839, Pressburg. He answered the pressure of the new century with a formula that became a slogan for a whole camp, and at the same time built the yeshiva that supplied central Europe with rabbis for a generation.
He grew up in London poverty and created a tramp understood without words in every language. He made The Great Dictator in 1940.
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
16 + 126 = 142 · total
This week's portion
Beha'alotcha בהעלתך
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 79-82.
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 142 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.