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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.
פתרקור
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is פתרקור. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 986. That number points to Torah page 278 of 354 — in the portion Matot. What that portion is about: Vows and their annulment; the war with Midian; the tribes of Reuben and Gad ask for land beyond the Jordan. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Deuteronomy 9:28. 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 פתרקור gives 986.
986
The number 986, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 278 in the book of Bamidbar (Numbers).
The verse this place falls on is Bamidbar (Numbers) 30:2:
וַיְדַבֵּר מֹשֶׁה אֶל־רָאשֵׁי הַמַּטּוֹת לִבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל לֵאמֹר זֶה הַדָּבָר אֲשֶׁר צִוָּה ה׳
And Moses spoke unto the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying: This is the thing which HaShem hath commanded.
This is from the portion Matot. What it is about: Vows and their annulment; the war with Midian; the tribes of Reuben and Gad ask for land beyond the Jordan.
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) — 986.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 23.
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 104. A Torah word with the same number is חוץ — “outside” (Genesis 6:14).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 4106.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 256436.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 3792.
The letters that come out are ואגדפג — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 97. A Torah word with the same number is נזם — “nose ring” (Genesis 24:22).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1705.
The name פתרקור 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 פתרקור these are פ and ר. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Deuteronomy 9:28:
פן יאמרו הארץ אשר הוצאתנו משם מבלי יכלת ה׳ להביאם אל הארץ אשר דבר להם ומשנאתו אותם הוציאם להמתם במדבר
This is from the portion Eikev. What it is about: “Because you will heed”: the land of seven fruits; the blessing after meals; manna as a test; the second paragraph of the Shema.
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 — 986. 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 פתרקור has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 986 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