Code of the day · 2027-10-16
Saturday · 15 Tishrei 5788
אַךְ־בְּכוֹר אֲשֶׁר־יְבֻכַּר לַה׳ בִּבְהֵמָה לֹא־יַקְדִּישׁ אִישׁ אֹתוֹ אִם־שׁוֹר אִם־שֶׂה לַה׳ הוּא
«Howbeit the firstling among beasts, which is born as a firstling to HaShem, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox or sheep, it is HaShem'S.»
Vayikra (Leviticus) 27:26 · page 217 of 354
This is from the portion “Bechukotai” (Leviticus 26–27). What it is about: “If you walk in My statutes”: blessings for faithfulness and admonitions; vows and valuations; the tithe.
Nobody picked it: the letters of today's date add up to 925, and that is page 217 of the 354 pages of the Torah — the first five books of the Bible.
No word in the Torah carries today's number. Only a handful of such days a year.
Person of the day
Three names from three eras sharing one small number
Joseph's younger son, whom his grandfather blessed with the right hand ahead of the elder — and did so deliberately.
1910–1995, Jerusalem. He worked out halakhah for a world of electricity, hospitals and transplants — calmly, and without fear of the new.
The only footballer to win three World Cups. The first of them at seventeen.
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
15 + 910 = 925 · total
This week's portion
Sukkot I (on Shabbat)
This Hebrew date across 301 years
A Torah word with this number
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
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 925 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.