Code of the day · 2027-08-14
Saturday · 11 Av 5787
וַיָּחֶל נֹחַ אִישׁ הָאֲדָמָה וַיִּטַּע כָּרֶם
«And Noah the husbandman began, and planted a vineyard.»
Bereshit (Genesis) 9:20 · page 14 of 354
This is from the portion “Noach” (Genesis 6–11). What it is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham.
Nobody picked it: the letters of today's date add up to 14, and that is page 14 of the 354 pages of the Torah — the first five books of the Bible.
The word with this number is read this very week.
The same number was already written down around 1200: דוד = יד
In the database it appears 31 times across 16 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: David, Guy. And your name?
Person of the day
Three names from three eras sharing one small number
An interpreter of dreams at the Babylonian court. He went on praying at an open window when it was forbidden on pain of the lions' den.
Rashi's grandson and head of the Tosafists. He argued with his grandfather where he thought it right — and those arguments themselves became part of the teaching.
A student of Socrates who founded the Academy, a school that ran for nine centuries.
What connects them
Each of the three moved at some point — changed country, side or occupation, and that is exactly what defined them.
Five is the hand with five fingers, the number of grip and of change. A day when the plan has to be corrected as you go, and that is fine.
Where are you standing still only because it is familiar here?
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
11 + 3 = 14 · total
This week's portion
Vaetchanan ואתחנן
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 60-65.
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
Five is the hand with five fingers, the number of grip and of change. A day when the plan has to be corrected as you go, and that is fine.
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 14 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.