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
You did not choose your name. It was given — almost always after someone who came before you.
Amit (עמית) — A modern name from the word “fellow, neighbor”; the Torah uses it in the laws of honesty: “do not wrong one another” (Leviticus 25:17).
And the same number belongs to the Torah word שכר — “payment of contract”.
520 and 520.
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.
עשה לך שתי חצוצרת כסף מקשה תעשה אתם והיו לך למקרא העדה ולמסע את המחנות
Numbers 10:2
The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, ע, and ends with the last, ת.
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
A word with the number 520 appears in 37 of the 54 weekly portions.
You are not alone in this number
The same number belongs to these names:
What is left
We counted your name in one system. There are nine, and they give nine different numbers. When several systems lead to the same portion, the tradition reads that theme as strong. So far you have one.
Below — how this was counted, letter by letter.
Amit — A name of biblical origin — its biblical spelling is used. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
עמית
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is עמית. A modern name from the word “fellow, neighbor”; the Torah uses it in the laws of honesty: “do not wrong one another” (Leviticus 25:17). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 520 — the same as the Torah word שכר, “payment of contract”. That number points to Torah page 166 of 354 — in the portion Vayikra. What that portion is about: “And He called”: the burnt, grain, peace, sin and guilt offerings — the order of the sacrifices. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Numbers 10:2. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. There are no predictions or judgments here — only the text of the Torah and arithmetic you can check.
Adding up the letters of the name עמית gives 520.
520
The number 520 is the Torah word שכר — «payment of contract» (Genesis 15:1).
The number 520, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 166 in the book of Vayikra (Leviticus). These are its opening words:
מן הכשבים או מן העזים לעלה זכר תמים …
The verse this place falls on is Vayikra (Leviticus) 1:10:
וְאִם־מִן־הַצֹּאן קָרְבָּנוֹ מִן־הַכְּשָׂבִים אוֹ מִן־הָעִזִּים לְעֹלָה זָכָר תָּמִים יַקְרִיבֶנּוּ
And if his offering be of the flock, whether of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt-offering, he shall offer it a male without blemish.
This is from the portion Vayikra. What it is about: “And He called”: the burnt, grain, peace, sin and guilt offerings — the order of the sacrifices.
The same number, 520, is given by these biblical names:
דריוש · ענת · כרש · שכר
Nine 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) — 520. A Torah word with the same number is שכר — “payment of contract” (Genesis 15:1).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 16. A Torah word with the same number is אחז — “to seize” (Genesis 22:13).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 61. A Torah word with the same number is אני — “I” (Genesis 6:17).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2020.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 166600.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 820. A Torah word with the same number is פלשתי — “a Pelishtite or inhabitant of Pelesheth” (Genesis 10:14).
The word that comes out is זימא. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 58. A Torah word with the same number is נח — “Noach, the patriarch of the flood” (Genesis 5:29).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 636. A Torah word with the same number is שלוש — “three” (Genesis 5:22).
The number 520 appears in the classical books 6 times across 3 works. The earliest mention is מעשה רוקח על המשנה (~1740).
The name עמית 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 עמית these are ע and ת. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Numbers 10:2:
עשה לך שתי חצוצרת כסף מקשה תעשה אתם והיו לך למקרא העדה ולמסע את המחנות
This is from the portion Behaalotcha. What it is about: Lighting the lampstand; the second Passover; the cloud leads the camp; quail and complaints; Miriam and tzaraat.
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.
Биньямин Пичхадзе, «Хумаш 354» (חומש 354), Бней-Брак, 2002 / התשס״ג · A calculation, not a prediction.