Code of the day · 2027-10-22
Friday · 21 Tishrei 5788
לְגֵרְשׁוֹן מִשְׁפַּחַת הַלִּבְנִי וּמִשְׁפַּחַת הַשִּׁמְעִי אֵלֶּה הֵם מִשְׁפְּחֹת הַגֵּרְשֻׁנִּי
«Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites; these are the families of the Gershonites.»
Bamidbar (Numbers) 3:21 · page 223 of 354
This is from the portion “Bamidbar” (Numbers 1–4). What it is about: The census in the desert: 603,550 men; the order of the camps around the Tabernacle; the Levites and their service.
Nobody picked it: the letters of today's date add up to 931, and that is page 223 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.
The same number was already written down around 1400: בענין ג שמות = עם ג תיבות
In the database this is the only such record. 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
One of those who joined Korah. To Moses' summons he answered briefly: 'we will not come up'.
One of the chief sages of the Mishnah, who kept learning from a teacher everyone else had turned away from.
A lawyer who chose non-violence as a political method and walked three hundred and ninety kilometres to the sea for salt.
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
21 + 910 = 931 · total
This week's portion
Shmini Atzeret (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 104-105.
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 931 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.