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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.
ענתות
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ענתות. A Tanakh name: two Israelites; also a place (first in Joshua 21:18; 15 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 926. That number points to Torah page 218 of 354 — in the portion Bamidbar. What that portion is about: The census in the desert: 603,550 men; the order of the camps around the Tabernacle; the Levites and their service. 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. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Anathoth” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: ענתות. A name from the Tanakh — its Tanakh spelling is used. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
Adding up the letters of the name ענתות gives 926.
926
The number 926, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 218 in the book of Bamidbar (Numbers).
The verse this place falls on is Bamidbar (Numbers) 1:16:
אֵלֶּה קריאי הָעֵדָה נְשִׂיאֵי מַטּוֹת אֲבוֹתָם רָאשֵׁי אַלְפֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל הֵם
These were the elect of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.
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.
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) — 926.
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) — 80. A Torah word with the same number is עוד — “again, still” (Genesis 4:25).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 3531.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 327436.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 2162.
The letters that come out are זטאפא — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 98. A Torah word with the same number is סלח — “to forgive” (Exodus 34:9).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1060.
The name ענתות 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 ענתות 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.
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 — 926. 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
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: ענתות = 926. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
2027-10-1716 Tishrei 5788in 358 days
The verse of that day
אֵלֶּה קריאי הָעֵדָה נְשִׂיאֵי מַטּוֹת אֲבוֹתָם רָאשֵׁי אַלְפֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל הֵם
«These were the elect of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.»
Bamidbar (Numbers) 1:16 · 218 / 354
Half of all names have such a day.
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