Code of the day · 2027-10-04
Monday · 3 Tishrei 5788
עַוֶּרֶת אוֹ שָׁבוּר אוֹ־חָרוּץ אוֹ־יַבֶּלֶת אוֹ גָרָב אוֹ יַלֶּפֶת לֹא־תַקְרִיבוּ אֵלֶּה לַה׳ וְאִשֶּׁה לֹא־תִתְּנוּ מֵהֶם עַל־הַמִּזְבֵּחַ לַה׳
«Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scabbed, or scurvy, ye shall not offer these unto HaShem, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto HaShem.»
Vayikra (Leviticus) 22:22 · page 205 of 354
This is from the portion “Emor” (Leviticus 21–24). What it is about: Laws of the priests; animals without blemish; the calendar of festivals — from the Sabbath to Sukkot; the lamp and the showbread.
Nobody picked it: the letters of today's date add up to 913, and that is page 205 of the 354 pages of the Torah — the first five books of the Bible.
The word with this number appears in the Torah exactly once.
The same number was already written down around 1300: ישראל בחר בעמים = תריג יצר
In the database it appears 8 times across 5 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 queen who hid her origin and revealed it to save her people. In her book the name of God is never mentioned once.
Rabbi of Prague and Hamburg, a master of law and a preacher. His long dispute with Rabbi Yaakov Emden split the communities of Europe.
By thirty his empire stretched from Greece to India. He died in Babylon before turning thirty-three.
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
3 + 910 = 913 · total
This week's portion
Ha'azinu האזינו
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 18-22.
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 913 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.