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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.

Your name

מתי

Tap the letters of your name and add up its number yourself

The number of your name

מתי (מתי) stands in the Torah as a word of its own — 9 times. First in Genesis 19:19.

Your word in the Torah

The word מררי — “Merari, son of Levi” — has the same number as your name. Here is the verse where it first appears:

ובני לוי גרשון קהת ומררי

Genesis 46:11

The verse of your name

There is a sentence with which, by custom, a person answers when asked who they are.

Yours is this one.

מלאתך ודמעך לא תאחר בכור בניך תתן לי

Exodus 22:28

The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, מ, and ends with the last, י.

The custom is written down in the Kitzur Shelah and in Sefer Ben Zion: “say it regularly and never forget it as long as you live.” The Rokeach gives the reason in Chochmat ha-Nefesh: a person is asked their name, and whoever does not remember cannot answer. The verse holds the name for them. Siddur ha-Rashban puts it more plainly: children were made to learn their verse by heart — so that if they were taken and forgot everything else, they would still know who they were.

The week you were born

Add your date of birth and we will show which portion the world was reading the week you appeared, and whether it holds a word of your number.

How rare this number is

Torah portions with a word of number 450: 44 of 54

You are not alone in this number

The same number belongs to these names:

Frances Hammedatha Merari Misham Mishma Priscille Prisk Shaaph Spencer Tehila

How to read your number

Fact. The letters of the name מתי add up to 450. Plain addition — you can check it yourself.

Meaning. There is a Torah word with the same number — מררי (“Merari, son of Levi”). A matching sum does not mean the word is 'about you'; it is a reason to look at what in it matters to you.

A question for yourself. What in this do you recognise in yourself — and what would you like to strengthen?

Practice. This week: open the verse of your name, read it slowly three times and write down one thought that stays with you.

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The nine numbers of your name

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The tradition counts a name in nine ways, each giving its own number. 6 of the nine have a word of their own in the Torah. We showed one. The rest are in the full report.

A verse for what you need

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מתי

In short

Your name in Hebrew letters is מתי. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 450 — the same as the Torah word מררי, “Merari, son of Levi”. That number points to Torah page 96 of 354 — in the portion Shemot. What that portion is about: Slavery in Egypt; Moses in the basket on the Nile; the burning bush and the Name; the first audience with Pharaoh. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 22:28. 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 מתי gives 450.

450

The number 450 is the Torah word מררי — «Merari, son of Levi» (Genesis 46:11).

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This number is shared with 8 other name(s) out of the 2,980 in the index.

The number 450, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 96 in the book of Shmot (Exodus).

The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 3:22:

וְשָׁאֲלָה אִשָּׁה מִשְּׁכֶנְתָּהּ וּמִגָּרַת בֵּיתָהּ כְּלֵי־כֶסֶף וּכְלֵי זָהָב וּשְׂמָלֹת וְשַׂמְתֶּם עַל־בְּנֵיכֶם וְעַל־בְּנֹתֵיכֶם וְנִצַּלְתֶּם אֶת־מִצְרָיִם

but every woman shall ask of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment; and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.'

This is from the portion Shemot. What it is about: Slavery in Egypt; Moses in the basket on the Nile; the burning bush and the Name; the first audience with Pharaoh.

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) — 450. A Torah word with the same number is מררי — “Merari, son of Levi” (Genesis 46:11).

Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 9. A Torah word with the same number is בוא — “to come, enter” (Genesis 2:19).

Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 45. A Torah word with the same number is מה — “what” (Genesis 2:19).

Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1695.

Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 161700.

Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 930.

The letters that come out are יאמ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 51. A Torah word with the same number is אכל — “to eat” (Genesis 2:16).

Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 506. A Torah word with the same number is שור — “ox” (Genesis 32:6).

The number 450 appears in the classical books 4 times across 3 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).

The name מתי appears in the Torah as a word 9 times. The first time is Genesis 19:19. Another 1 time it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.

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 מתי these are מ and י. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 22:28:

מלאתך ודמעך לא תאחר בכור בניך תתן לי

This is from the portion Mishpatim. What it is about: Laws of the servant, damages, theft and pledges; “an eye for an eye” as compensation; the sabbatical year; “we will do and we will hear”.

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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 — 450. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.

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Your name's day

The name מתי has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 450 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.

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