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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.
עבוטור
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is עבוטור. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 293. That number points to Torah page 293 of 354 — in the portion Devarim. What that portion is about: Moses begins his address in the plains of Moab: judges, spies, forty years of wandering, the victories over Sihon and Og. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 6:14. 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 עבוטור gives 293.
293
This number is shared with 5 other name(s) out of the 2,980 in the index.
The number 293, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 293 in the book of Devarim (Deuteronomy).
The verse this place falls on is Devarim (Deuteronomy) 1:27:
וַתֵּרָגְנוּ בְאָהֳלֵיכֶם וַתֹּאמְרוּ בְּשִׂנְאַת ה׳ אֹתָנוּ הוֹצִיאָנוּ מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם לָתֵת אֹתָנוּ בְּיַד הָאֱמֹרִי לְהַשְׁמִידֵנוּ
and ye murmured in your tents, and said: 'Because HaShem hated us, He hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
This is from the portion Devarim. What it is about: Moses begins his address in the plains of Moab: judges, spies, forty years of wandering, the victories over Sihon and Og.
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) — 293.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 32. A Torah word with the same number is לב — “heart” (Genesis 6:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 59.
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1210. A Torah word with the same number is תרשיש — “beryl gemstone” (Exodus 28:20).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 45057.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 693. A Torah word with the same number is גפרית — “brimstone, sulfur” (Genesis 19:24).
The letters that come out are זשפנפג — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 520. A Torah word with the same number is שכר — “wages, reward” (Genesis 15:1).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1495.
The number 293 appears in the classical books 3 times across 3 works. The earliest mention is מגלה עמוקות (~1637).
The name עבוטור 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 עבוטור these are ע and ר. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 6:14:
עשה לך תבת עצי גפר קנים תעשה את התבה וכפרת אתה מבית ומחוץ בכפר
This is from the portion Noach. What it is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham.
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 — 293. 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 עבוטור has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 293 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