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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.
מגדולן
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מגדולן. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 133. That number points to Torah page 133 of 354 — in the portion Terumah. What that portion is about: The offering for the Sanctuary; the Ark, the table and the lampstand; the Tabernacle and its curtains; the altar. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Numbers 1:3. 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 מגדולן gives 133.
133
This number is shared with 3 other name(s) out of the 2,980 in the index.
The number 133, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 133 in the book of Shmot (Exodus).
The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 25:8:
וְעָשׂוּ לִי מִקְדָּשׁ וְשָׁכַנְתִּי בְּתוֹכָם
And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
This is from the portion Terumah. What it is about: The offering for the Sanctuary; the Ark, the table and the lampstand; the Tabernacle and its curtains; the altar.
The same number, 133, is given by these Tanakh names:
Gideon גדעון
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) — 783. A Torah word with the same number is השבעות — “the weeks” (Deuteronomy 16:16).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 25. A Torah word with the same number is כה — “thus, so” (Genesis 15:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 52. A Torah word with the same number is בן — “son” (Genesis 3:16).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 482. A Torah word with the same number is עבדתו — “its service” (Exodus 27:19).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 5061.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 399. A Torah word with the same number is והשלחן — “and the table” (Exodus 26:35).
The letters that come out are ירקפכט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 419. A Torah word with the same number is אחתי — “my sister” (Genesis 12:13).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 789. A Torah word with the same number is תשפט — “you shall judge” (Leviticus 19:15).
The number 133 appears in the classical books 4 times across 4 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
The name מגדולן 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 מגדולן these are מ and נ. The Pentateuch has 4 such verses. The first of them is Numbers 1:3:
מבן עשרים שנה ומעלה כל יצא צבא בישראל תפקדו אתם לצבאתם אתה ואהרן
This is from the portion Bamidbar. 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.
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 — 133. 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
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: מגדולן = 133. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
2026-11-2717 Kislev 5787in 34 days
The verse of that day
וְעָשׂוּ לִי מִקְדָּשׁ וְשָׁכַנְתִּי בְּתוֹכָם
«And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.»
Shmot (Exodus) 25:8 · 133 / 354
Half of all names have such a day.
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