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SAPIR 861
How your name is written in the letters of the Torah
Your name in the Torah: in Hebrew letters, as a number, with the verse it lands on and the sources. Computed, not divined. Free.
ורתיסלב
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ורתיסלב. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 708. That number points to Torah page 354 of 354 — in the portion Vezot HaBracha. What that portion is about: “This is the blessing”: Moses blesses the tribes; he sees the land from the mountain; Moses dies — “no prophet arose like Moses”. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 1:10. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
Adding up the letters of the name ורתיסלב gives 708.
708
The number 708, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 354 in the book of Devarim (Deuteronomy).
The verse this place falls on is Devarim (Deuteronomy) 33:25:
בַּרְזֶל וּנְחֹשֶׁת מִנְעָלֶיךָ וּכְיָמֶיךָ דָּבְאֶךָ
Iron and brass shall be thy bars; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
This is from the portion Vezot HaBracha. What it is about: “This is the blessing”: Moses blesses the tribes; he sees the land from the mountain; Moses dies — “no prophet arose like Moses”.
Other ways of counting
The tradition counts the same name in several ways. The main one is above: each letter is its number. The other eight are old and checkable too; each gives its own number, and many of them have a Torah word with the same number.
Final letters as 500–900 (mispar gadol) — 708.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 24. A Torah word with the same number is חוי — “Hivite” (Genesis 10:17).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 87. A Torah word with the same number is נבלה — “carcass” (Leviticus 5:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2729.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 204640.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 3524.
The letters that come out are פגאמחכש — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 452. A Torah word with the same number is תבן — “straw” (Genesis 24:25).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1554.
The number 708 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is אוהב ישראל (~1815).
The name ורתיסלב does not stand as a word in the Pentateuch — as with most names, including many Tanakh names from the later books.
The verse of your name
There is a custom: at the end of the prayer one says a Torah verse that begins with the first letter of one's name and ends with its last. For ורתיסלב these are ו and ב. The Pentateuch has 131 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 1:10:
ויקרא אלהים ליבשה ארץ ולמקוה המים קרא ימים וירא אלהים כי טוב
This is from the portion Bereshit. What it is about: Creation in six days and the Sabbath; Adam and Eve in the garden; Cain and Abel; ten generations to Noah.
The full message
Every letter of the name explained, the words and namesakes with references, the Hebrew date, the letter and tribe of the month, day 861 of your life (±1), the psalm by age, the attestations from the classical books — a PDF sent to your email.
The number of the day, every morning
Every date has a number too. Once a year it will match the number of your name — 708. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
Your name's day
The name ורתיסלב has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 708 is not among them. Half of all names are like this — neither good nor bad, just a fact of counting.
How it is counted
Each Hebrew letter has a number; a word's number is their sum (alef 1 … tav 400). The page is the remainder modulo 354: the Torah divided into 354 pages of 861 letters, as the lunar year has 354 days. Everything can be checked by hand.
Binyamin Pichkhadze, «Chumash 354» (חומש 354), Bnei Brak, 2002 · Addition, not prophecy.
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (WLC), CC BY 4.0