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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.
ססליה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ססליה. This name comes from Latin: the word caecus means “blind”. The name comes through the Roman family name Caecilius; Saint Cecilia is the patron of music. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 165. That number points to Torah page 165 of 354 — in the portion Pekudei. What that portion is about: The accounting of the materials; the priestly garments are finished; the Tabernacle is raised on the first of Nisan; the cloud covers it. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Numbers 14:19. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Cecelia” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: ססליה. Spelled by the Academy of the Hebrew Language rules for foreign names. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
Adding up the letters of the name ססליה gives 165.
165
This number is shared with 7 other name(s) out of the 2,980 in the index.
The number 165, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 165 in the book of Shmot (Exodus).
The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 40:30:
וַיָּשֶׂם אֶת־הַכִּיֹּר בֵּין־אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד וּבֵין הַמִּזְבֵּחַ וַיִּתֵּן שָׁמָּה מַיִם לְרָחְצָה
And he set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water therein, wherewith to wash;
This is from the portion Pekudei. What it is about: The accounting of the materials; the priestly garments are finished; the Tabernacle is raised on the first of Nisan; the cloud covers it.
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) — 165.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 21. A Torah word with the same number is אך — “only, surely” (Genesis 7:23).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 57. A Torah word with the same number is מזבח — “altar” (Genesis 8:20).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 685. A Torah word with the same number is עטרות — “Ataroth, town in Gilead” (Numbers 32:3).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 8225.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 655. A Torah word with the same number is השלישי — “the third” (Genesis 2:14).
The letters that come out are חחכמצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 166. A Torah word with the same number is עליון — “Most High” (Genesis 14:18).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 340. A Torah word with the same number is שם — “there” (Genesis 2:8).
The number 165 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is מנורת המאור (אבוהב) (~1400).
The name ססליה 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 ססליה these are ס and ה. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Numbers 14:19:
סלח נא לעון העם הזה כגדל חסדך וכאשר נשאתה לעם הזה ממצרים ועד הנה
This is from the portion Shlach. What it is about: The twelve spies; forty years for forty days; challah and tzitzit.
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 — 165. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
This name can also be written in Hebrew differently. Click a variant to recompute:
ססלי 160
Your name's day
The name ססליה has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 165 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