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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.
חרתמות
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is חרתמות. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 1054. That number points to Torah page 346 of 354 — in the portion Nitzavim. What that portion is about: “You are standing”: the covenant with all, and with those not here; “the word is very near to you”; choose life. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 36:12. 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 חרתמות gives 1054.
1054
The number 1054, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 346 in the book of Devarim (Deuteronomy).
The verse this place falls on is Devarim (Deuteronomy) 29:28:
הַנִּסְתָּרֹת לַה׳ אֱלֹהֵינוּ וְהַנִּגְלֹת לָׄנׄוּׄ וּׄלְׄבָׄנֵׄיׄנׄוּׄ עַד־עוֹלָם לַעֲשׂוֹת אֶת־כָּל־דִּבְרֵי הַתּוֹרָה הַזֹּאת ס
The secret things belong unto HaShem our G-d; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
This is from the portion Nitzavim. What it is about: “You are standing”: the covenant with all, and with those not here; “the word is very near to you”; choose life.
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) — 1054.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 28. A Torah word with the same number is כח — “strength” (Genesis 4:12).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 91. A Torah word with the same number is מלאך — “messenger, angel” (Genesis 16:7).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 3987.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 361700.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 3180.
The letters that come out are סגאיפא — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 155. A Torah word with the same number is קנה — “stalk, reed” (Genesis 41:5).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1832.
The number 1054 appears in the classical books 1 time across 1 work. The earliest mention is תוכחת חיים פרשת נשא.
The name חרתמות 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 חרתמות these are ח and ת. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 36:12:
חמשים ללאת עשה ביריעה האחת וחמשים ללאת עשה בקצה היריעה אשר במחברת השנית מקבילת הללאת אחת אל אחת
This is from the portion Vayakhel. What it is about: The Sabbath comes before the work on the Sanctuary; the people bring more than enough; Bezalel and the craftsmen build the Tabernacle.
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 — 1054. 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 חרתמות has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 1054 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