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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.
פילוסתרת
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is פילוסתרת. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 1186. That number points to Torah page 124 of 354 — in the portion Yitro. What that portion is about: Jethro's counsel on judges; standing at Sinai; the Ten Utterances; “you shall not make yourself an idol”. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Numbers 1:21. 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 פילוסתרת gives 1186.
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The number 1186, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 124 in the book of Shmot (Exodus).
The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 19:6:
וְאַתֶּם תִּהְיוּ־לִי מַמְלֶכֶת כֹּהֲנִים וְגוֹי קָדוֹשׁ אֵלֶּה הַדְּבָרִים אֲשֶׁר תְּדַבֵּר אֶל־בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל
and ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.'
This is from the portion Yitro. What it is about: Jethro's counsel on judges; standing at Sinai; the Ten Utterances; “you shall not make yourself an idol”.
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) — 1186.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 34. A Torah word with the same number is לבב — “heart” (Genesis 20:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 124. A Torah word with the same number is עדן — “Eden” (Genesis 2:8).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 4626.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 371036.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 3160.
The letters that come out are ומכפחאגא — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 159. A Torah word with the same number is קטן — “small” (Genesis 1:16).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1629.
The name פילוסתרת 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 פילוסתרת these are פ and ת. The Pentateuch has 13 such verses. The first of them is Numbers 1:21:
פקדיהם למטה ראובן ששה וארבעים אלף וחמש מאות
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 — 1186. 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 פילוסתרת has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 1186 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