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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.
זרתוסתרה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is זרתוסתרה. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 1278. That number points to Torah page 216 of 354 — in the portion Bechukotai. What that portion is about: “If you walk in My statutes”: blessings for faithfulness and admonitions; vows and valuations; the tithe. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 30:13. 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 זרתוסתרה gives 1278.
1278
The number 1278, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 216 in the book of Vayikra (Leviticus).
The verse this place falls on is Vayikra (Leviticus) 27:9:
וְאִם־בְּהֵמָה אֲשֶׁר יַקְרִיבוּ מִמֶּנָּה קָרְבָּן לַה׳ כֹּל אֲשֶׁר יִתֵּן מִמֶּנּוּ לַה׳ יִהְיֶה־קֹּדֶשׁ
And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto HaShem, all that any man giveth of such unto HaShem shall be holy.
This is from the portion Bechukotai. What it is about: “If you walk in My statutes”: blessings for faithfulness and admonitions; vows and valuations; the tithe.
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) — 1278.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 36. A Torah word with the same number is אלה — “these” (Genesis 2:4).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 117. A Torah word with the same number is אלוף — “chief” (Genesis 36:15).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 4899.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 403710.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 5731.
The letters that come out are עגאפחאגצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 256. A Torah word with the same number is קיצון — “outermost” (Exodus 26:4).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 2037.
The name זרתוסתרה 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 זרתוסתרה these are ז and ה. The Pentateuch has 8 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 30:13:
זה יתנו כל העבר על הפקדים מחצית השקל בשקל הקדש עשרים גרה השקל מחצית השקל תרומה לה׳
This is from the portion Ki Tisa. What it is about: The half-shekel for the census; the golden calf and the broken tablets; the thirteen attributes of mercy; the second tablets.
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 — 1278. 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 זרתוסתרה has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 1278 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