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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.

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Adds the verse of meeting from the portion of your birth week

מיר
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מיר. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 250. That number points to Torah page 250 of 354 — in the portion Shlach. What that portion is about: The twelve spies; forty years for forty days; challah and tzitzit. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 19:22. 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 מיר gives 250.
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This number is shared with 8 other name(s) out of the 2,980 in the index.

The number 250, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 250 in the book of Bamidbar (Numbers).
The verse this place falls on is Bamidbar (Numbers) 15:25:
וְכִפֶּר הַכֹּהֵן עַל־כָּל־עֲדַת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וְנִסְלַח לָהֶם כִּי־שְׁגָגָה הִוא וְהֵם הֵבִיאוּ אֶת־קָרְבָּנָם אִשֶּׁה לַה׳ וְחַטָּאתָם לִפְנֵי ה׳ עַל־שִׁגְגָתָם
And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire unto HaShem, and their sin-offering before HaShem, for their error.
This is from the portion Shlach. What it is about: The twelve spies; forty years for forty days; challah and tzitzit.
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) — 250.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 7. A Torah word with the same number is או — “or” (Genesis 24:49).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 43. A Torah word with the same number is גם — “also” (Genesis 3:6).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 995.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 41700.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 340. A Torah word with the same number is שם — “there” (Genesis 2:8).
The letters that come out are ימג — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 53. A Torah word with the same number is אבן — “stone” (Genesis 2:12).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 610. A Torah word with the same number is יתר — “to remain over” (Genesis 30:36).
The number 250 appears in the classical books 14 times across 12 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
The name מיר 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 מיר these are מ and ר. The Pentateuch has 3 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 19:22:
מהר המלט שמה כי לא אוכל לעשות דבר עד באך שמה על כן קרא שם העיר צוער
This is from the portion Vayera. What it is about: Three visitors at Abraham's tent; the plea for Sodom; the birth of Isaac; the binding of Isaac on Mount Moriah.
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 — 250. 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: מיר = 250. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.

2027-06-0529 Iyyar 5787in 224 days
The verse of that day

וְכִפֶּר הַכֹּהֵן עַל־כָּל־עֲדַת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וְנִסְלַח לָהֶם כִּי־שְׁגָגָה הִוא וְהֵם הֵבִיאוּ אֶת־קָרְבָּנָם אִשֶּׁה לַה׳ וְחַטָּאתָם לִפְנֵי ה׳ עַל־שִׁגְגָתָם

«And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire unto HaShem, and their sin-offering before HaShem, for their error.»

Bamidbar (Numbers) 15:25 · 250 / 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.

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