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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.

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Your name

Jerah

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The number of your name

Jerah (ירח) stands in the Torah as a word of its own — 2 times. First in Genesis 8:21.

Jerah (ירח) — A Tanakh name: an Arabian patriarch (first in Genesis 10:26; 2 mentions in the Tanakh).
And the same number belongs to the Torah word ריח — “smell, aroma”.

Your word in the Torah

The word ריח — “smell, aroma” — has the same number as your name. Here is the verse where it first appears:

וירח ה׳ את ריח הניחח ויאמר ה׳ אל לבו לא אסף לקלל עוד את האדמה בעבור האדם כי יצר לב האדם רע מנעריו ולא אסף עוד להכות את כל חי כאשר עשיתי
Genesis 8:21

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.

יצר סמוך תצר שלום שלום כי בך בטוח
Isaiah 26:3

The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, י, and ends with the last, ח.

The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with י and ends with ח. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — and there it is: Isaiah 26:3.

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

Torah portions with a word of number 218: 30 of 54

You are not alone in this number

The same number belongs to these names:

BeraiahEdgardoHerveHoriIbereRoseRozhaRubiZibeonZohar

How to read your number

Fact. The letters of the name ירח add up to 218. Plain addition — you can check it yourself.

Meaning. There is a Torah word with the same number — ריח (“smell, aroma”). A matching sum does not mean the word is 'about you'; it is a reason to look at what in it matters to you.

A question for yourself. What in this do you recognise in yourself — and what would you like to strengthen?

Practice. This week: open the verse of your name, read it slowly three times and write down one thought that stays with you.

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The nine numbers of your name

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The tradition counts a name in nine ways, each giving its own number. 7 of the nine have a word of their own in the Torah. We showed one. The rest are in the full report.

A verse for what you need

Pick a theme — we show a Tanakh verse on it that contains a word with your name's number (218).

Our verse — for two

Type the name of someone close. We find the verse that begins with a letter of one name and ends with a letter of the other — your pair's verse.

My days of the year

The days when the number of the Hebrew date equals your name's number, and the Shabbat when the world reads the portion of your verse — straight into your phone's calendar.

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ירח

Spelling attested: this is how the name is recorded in the open Wikidata name base.

In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ירח. A Tanakh name: an Arabian patriarch (first in Genesis 10:26; 2 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 218 — the same as the Torah word ריח, “smell, aroma”. 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 Isaiah 26:3. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Jerah” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: ירח. 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 ירח gives 218.
218
The number 218 is the Torah word ריח — «smell, aroma» (Genesis 8:21).

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This number is shared with 7 other name(s) out of the 2,980 in the index.

The number 218, 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) — 218. A Torah word with the same number is ריח — “smell, aroma” (Genesis 8:21).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 11. A Torah word with the same number is חג — “festival” (Exodus 10:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 38. A Torah word with the same number is גלה — “to uncover” (Genesis 9:21).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 886.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 40164.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 438. A Torah word with the same number is תובל — “Tubal, son of Japheth” (Genesis 10:2).
The letters that come out are מגס — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 103. A Torah word with the same number is מנחה — “offering, gift” (Genesis 4:3).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 948. A Torah word with the same number is מרחשת — “deep pan” (Leviticus 2:7).
The number 218 appears in the classical books 9 times across 5 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
The name ירח appears in the Torah as a word 2 times. The first time is Genesis 8:21. Another 5 times it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
The verse of your name
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with י and ends with ח. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 9 such verses. The first of them is Isaiah 26:3:
יצר סמוך תצר שלום שלום כי בך בטוח
Name report — free for the first hundredName and date
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 — 218. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
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Your name's day

Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: ירח = 218. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.

2027-02-2013 Adar 5787in 119 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.

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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.

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