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.
The number of your name is 310. The Torah word חשב — “to plait or interpenetrate, i.e.” — has the same.
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.
כי ידבר אלכם פרעה לאמר תנו לכם מופת ואמרת אל אהרן קח את מטך והשלך לפני פרעה יהי לתנין
Exodus 7:9
The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, כ, and ends with the last, נ.
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 310 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.
Carmen — The customary Hebrew spelling of this name. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
כרמן
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is כרמן. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 310 — the same as the Torah word חשב, “to plait or interpenetrate, i.e.”. That number points to Torah page 310 of 354 — in the portion Eikev. What that portion 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 verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Êxodo 7:9. 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 כרמן gives 310.
310
The number 310 is the Torah word חשב — «to plait or interpenetrate, i.e.» (Genesis 15:6).
The number 310, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 310 in the book of Devarim (Deuteronomy). These are its opening words:
ככל הדברים אשר דבר יהוה עמכם בהר מתוך …
The verse this place falls on is Devarim (Deuteronomy) 9:10:
וַיִּתֵּן ה׳ אֵלַי אֶת־שְׁנֵי לוּחֹת הָאֲבָנִים כְּתֻבִים בְּאֶצְבַּע אֱלֹהִים וַעֲלֵיהֶם כְּכָל־הַדְּבָרִים אֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּר ה׳ עִמָּכֶם בָּהָר מִתּוֹךְ הָאֵשׁ בְּיוֹם הַקָּהָל
And HaShem delivered unto me the two tables of stone written with the finger of G-d; and on them was written according to all the words, which HaShem spoke with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
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 same number, 310, is given by these biblical names:
קיר · שובב · לעיר · צעננים
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) — 960. A Torah word with the same number is משכרת — “wages or a reward” (Genesis 29:15).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 13. A Torah word with the same number is אחד — “united, i.e. one” (Genesis 1:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 58. A Torah word with the same number is נח — “Noach, the patriarch of the flood” (Genesis 5:29).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1210. A Torah word with the same number is תרשיש — “a gem, perhaps the topaz” (Exodus 28:20).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 44500.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 810. A Torah word with the same number is יתת — “Jetheth, an Edomite” (Genesis 36:40).
The word that comes out is לגיט. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 52. A Torah word with the same number is בן — “a son” (Genesis 3:16).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 796.
The number 310 appears in the classical books 27 times across 16 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
The name כרמן 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 כרמן these are כ and נ. The Pentateuch has 13 such verses. The first of them is Êxodo 7:9:
כי ידבר אלכם פרעה לאמר תנו לכם מופת ואמרת אל אהרן קח את מטך והשלך לפני פרעה יהי לתנין
This is from the portion Vaera. What it is about: “And I appeared”: the promise of redemption in four expressions; the first seven plagues, from blood to hail.
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.