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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.
קשישתוף
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is קשישתוף. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 1196. That number points to Torah page 134 of 354 — in the portion Terumah. What that portion is about: The offering for the Sanctuary; the Ark, the table and the lampstand; the Tabernacle and its curtains; the altar. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Zechariah 1:2. 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 קשישתוף gives 1196.
1196
The number 1196, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 134 in the book of Shmot (Exodus).
The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 25:26:
וְעָשִׂיתָ לּוֹ אַרְבַּע טַבְּעֹת זָהָב וְנָתַתָּ אֶת־הַטַּבָּעֹת עַל אַרְבַּע הַפֵּאֹת אֲשֶׁר לְאַרְבַּע רַגְלָיו
And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.
This is from the portion Terumah. What it is about: The offering for the Sanctuary; the Ark, the table and the lampstand; the Tabernacle and its curtains; the altar.
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) — 1916.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 26. A Torah word with the same number is והיה — “and it became” (Genesis 2:10).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 116. A Torah word with the same number is נוס — “to flee” (Genesis 14:10).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 4761.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 356536.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 5042.
The letters that come out are דבמבאפו — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 135. A Torah word with the same number is מצה — “unleavened bread” (Genesis 19:3).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1425.
The name קשישתוף 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
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with ק and ends with פ. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 2 such verses. The first of them is Zechariah 1:2:
קצף ה׳ על אבותיכם קצף
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 — 1196. 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 קשישתוף has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 1196 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