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.
Aviv (אביב) stands in the Torah as a word of its own — 2 times. First in Exodus 9:31.
Aviv (אביב) — “Spring, ear of grain.” The Torah calls the month of the Exodus “the month of Aviv” (Exodus 13:4).
And the same number belongs to the Torah word זוב — “to flow freely”.
15 and 15.
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.
אלה הטמאים לכם בכל השרץ כל הנגע בהם במתם יטמא עד הערב
Leviticus 11:31
The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, א, and ends with the last, ב.
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 15 appears in 16 of the 54 weekly portions.
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.
Aviv — 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.
אביב
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אביב. “Spring, ear of grain.” The Torah calls the month of the Exodus “the month of Aviv” (Exodus 13:4). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 15 — the same as the Torah word זוב, “to flow freely”. That number points to Torah page 15 of 354 — in the portion Noach. What that portion is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Leviticus 11:31. 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 אביב gives 15.
15
The number 15 is the Torah word זוב — «to flow freely» (Exodus 3:8).
Fifteen steps of the Temple and fifteen “Songs of Ascents” (Psalms 120–134); the full moon on the 15th of the month.
The number 15, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 15 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis). These are its opening words:
אשר יצאו משם פלשתים ואת כפתרים וכנען ילד …
The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 10:14:
וְאֶת־פַּתְרֻסִים וְאֶת־כַּסְלֻחִים אֲשֶׁר יָצְאוּ מִשָּׁם פְּלִשְׁתִּים וְאֶת־כַּפְתֹּרִים ס
and Pathrusim, and Casluhim--whence went forth the Philistines--and Caphtorim.
This is from the portion Noach. What it is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham.
The same number, 15, is given by these biblical names:
בוז · הדו · אביב · גבי
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) — 15. A Torah word with the same number is זוב — “to flow freely” (Exodus 3:8).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 6. A Torah word with the same number is בד — “separation” (Genesis 2:18).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 15. A Torah word with the same number is זוב — “to flow freely” (Exodus 3:8).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 62. A Torah word with the same number is בין — “between” (Genesis 1:4).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 109. A Torah word with the same number is צידה — “food” (Genesis 27:3).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 32. A Torah word with the same number is לב — “the heart” (Genesis 6:5).
The word that comes out is תשמש. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 1040.
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 955.
The number 15 appears in the classical books 45 times across 25 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
The name אביב appears in the Torah as a word 2 times. The first time is Exodus 9:31. Another 6 times it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
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 אביב these are א and ב. The Pentateuch has 4 such verses. The first of them is Leviticus 11:31:
אלה הטמאים לכם בכל השרץ כל הנגע בהם במתם יטמא עד הערב
This is from the portion Shmini. What it is about: The eighth day: Aaron's first service; fire from heaven; the death of Nadab and Abihu; clean and unclean animals.
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.