Code of the day · 2027-07-18
Sunday · 13 Tamuz 5787
וַאֲמַרְתֶּם זֶבַח־פֶּסַח הוּא לַה׳ אֲשֶׁר פָּסַח עַל־בָּתֵּי בְנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּמִצְרַיִם בְּנָגְפּוֹ אֶת־מִצְרַיִם וְאֶת־בָּתֵּינוּ הִצִּיל וַיִּקֹּד הָעָם וַיִּשְׁתַּחֲוּוּ
«that ye shall say: It is the sacrifice of HaShem'S passover, for that He passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when He smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.' And the people bowed the head and worshipped.»
Shmot (Exodus) 12:27 · page 112 of 354
This is from the portion “Bo” (Exodus 10–13). What it is about: Locusts, darkness and the death of the firstborn; the Passover lamb; the exodus from Egypt; the commandment of tefillin.
Nobody picked it: the letters of today's date add up to 466, and that is page 112 of the 354 pages of the Torah — the first five books of the Bible.
A name from this week's portion gives exactly this number. Four days in a hundred.
The same number was already written down around 1300: ואת המטה = ספירינון
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.
Today is the name's day of: Simeon. And your name?
Person of the day
Three names from three eras sharing one small number
Jacob's twin, who sold his birthright for a stew. Meeting him twenty years later, he embraced his brother and wept.
When Jerusalem was besieged he left the city and asked Rome not for victory but for a school at Yavneh.
He began going deaf at thirty and wrote the Ninth Symphony without hearing it. At the premiere he had to be turned round to see the ovation.
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
13 + 453 = 466 · total
This week's portion
Pinchas פינחס
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
The name equals the number of the day. This comes out on about four days in a hundred.
Psalms of the day
Under the customary division of the book of Psalms across the thirty days of the month, today's reading is 69-71.
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 466 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.