Code of the day · 2027-07-20
Tuesday · 15 Tamuz 5787
וְהָיָה כִּי־יְבִאֲךָ ה׳ אֶל־אֶרֶץ הַכְּנַעֲנִי כַּאֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּע לְךָ וְלַאֲבֹתֶיךָ וּנְתָנָהּ לָךְ
«And it shall be when HaShem shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanite, as He swore unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,»
Shmot (Exodus) 13:11 · page 114 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 468, and that is page 114 of the 354 pages of the Torah — the first five books of the Bible.
The same number was already written down around 1390: עשבים הם = ומאה שהאלף (with the ±1 correction)
In the database it appears 6 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
A son of Levi, whose family carried the heaviest parts of the Tabernacle: the boards, the pillars and the sockets.
Hillel's constant opponent. The law follows Hillel in almost every dispute, yet the Mishnah records Shammai's view beside it and does not delete it.
A Mississippi river pilot who took his pen name from a depth-sounding call. He wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
What connects them
For all three the main thing became visible at the end: the sum turned out larger than any single act.
Nine is the last digit: after it the count begins again. A day for closing rather than opening. Good for finishing things and settling debts, financial and otherwise.
What would you want to finish before starting something new?
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
15 + 453 = 468 · total
This week's portion
Pinchas פינחס
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.
Remembered today
Chaim ibn Attar, 1696–1743, Morocco and Jerusalem. His commentary on the Torah is read in both worlds at once: the Sephardi study hall and the Hasidic one, which almost never happens.
Psalms of the day
Under the customary division of the book of Psalms across the thirty days of the month, today's reading is 77-78.
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
Nine is the last digit: after it the count begins again. A day for closing rather than opening. Good for finishing things and settling debts, financial and otherwise.
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 468 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.