Code of the day · 2027-11-10
Wednesday · 10 Cheshvan 5788
וַיָּשֻׁבוּ וַיָּבֹאוּ אֶל־עֵין מִשְׁפָּט הִוא קָדֵשׁ וַיַּכּוּ אֶת־כָּל־שְׂדֵה הָעֲמָלֵקִי וְגַם אֶת־הָאֱמֹרִי הַיֹּשֵׁב בְּחַצְצֹן תָּמָר
«And they turned back, and came to En-mishpat--the same is Kadesh--and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazazon-tamar.»
Bereshit (Genesis) 14:7 · page 20 of 354
This is from the portion “Lech Lecha” (Genesis 12–17). What it is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision.
Nobody picked it: the letters of today's date add up to 374, and that is page 20 of the 354 pages of the Torah — the first five books of the Bible.
A name from this week's portion gives exactly this number. Four days in a hundred.
Today is the name's day of: Katerina. 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.
Israel ben Eliezer, 1698–1760. Founder of Hasidism. He taught that a simple person praying from the heart stands no lower than a scholar, and that joy is not the reward for service but the manner of it.
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
10 + 364 = 374 · total
This week's portion
Lech-Lecha לך־לך
This Hebrew date across 301 years
A Torah word with this number
A name from this week's portion
The name equals the number of the day. This comes out on about four days in a hundred.
Psalms of the day
Under the customary division of the book of Psalms across the thirty days of the month, today's reading is 55-59.
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 374 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.