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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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Adds the verse of meeting from the portion of your birth week

Your name

Khasan

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The number of your name

Khasan (חסן) — In Hebrew letters the name is spelled like the Tanakh word “wealth” (Isaiah 33:6).
And the same number belongs to the Torah word חיק — “bosom”.

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.

חשבון וכל עריה אשר במישר דיבון ובמות בעל ובית בעל מעון
Joshua 13:17

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

The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with ח and ends with נ. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — and there it is: Joshua 13:17.

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 118: 44 of 54

You are not alone in this number

The same number belongs to these names:

How to read your number

Fact. The letters of the name חסן add up to 118. Plain addition — you can check it yourself.

Meaning. There is a Torah word with the same number — חיק (“bosom”). 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

118standard768with finals19reduced37ordinal486cumulative6164squares194building77atbash644filling

The tradition counts a name in nine ways, each giving its own number. 8 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 (118).

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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7 days with your verse

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חסן

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

In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is חסן. In Hebrew letters the name is spelled like the Tanakh word “wealth” (Isaiah 33:6). This is a shared spelling, not the origin of the name. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 118 — the same as the Torah word חיק, “bosom”. That number points to Torah page 118 of 354 — in the portion Beshalach. What that portion is about: The parting of the sea and the song of Moses and Miriam; manna and quail; water from the rock; the war with Amalek. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Joshua 13:17. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Khasan” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: חסן. 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 חסן gives 118.
118
The number 118 is the Torah word חיק — «bosom» (Genesis 16:5).

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This number is shared with 6 other name(s) out of the 2,980 in the index.

The number 118, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 118 in the book of Shmot (Exodus).
The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 15:21:
וַתַּעַן לָהֶם מִרְיָם שִׁירוּ לַה׳ כִּי־גָאֹה גָּאָה סוּס וְרֹכְבוֹ רָמָה בַיָּם ס
And Miriam sang unto them: Sing ye to HaShem, for He is highly exalted: the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.
This is from the portion Beshalach. What it is about: The parting of the sea and the song of Moses and Miriam; manna and quail; water from the rock; the war with Amalek.
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) — 768. A Torah word with the same number is ביתפעור — “Beth-peor, place in Moab” (Deuteronomy 3:29).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 19. A Torah word with the same number is גוי — “nation” (Genesis 10:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 37. A Torah word with the same number is גדל — “to grow, be great” (Genesis 12:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 486. A Torah word with the same number is סכות — “Succoth” (Genesis 33:17).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 6164.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 194. A Torah word with the same number is צדק — “righteousness, justice” (Leviticus 19:15).
The letters that come out are סחט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 77. A Torah word with the same number is עז — “she-goat” (Genesis 15:9).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 644. A Torah word with the same number is מרבבת — “from myriads of” (Deuteronomy 33:2).
The number 118 appears in the classical books 4 times across 4 works. The earliest mention is ילקוט שמעוני (~1260).
The name חסן 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
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with ח and ends with נ. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 8 such verses. The first of them is Joshua 13:17:
חשבון וכל עריה אשר במישר דיבון ובמות בעל ובית בעל מעון
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 — 118. 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: חסן = 118. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.

2026-11-122 Kislev 5787in 19 days
The verse of that day

וַתַּעַן לָהֶם מִרְיָם שִׁירוּ לַה׳ כִּי־גָאֹה גָּאָה סוּס וְרֹכְבוֹ רָמָה בַיָּם ס

«And Miriam sang unto them: Sing ye to HaShem, for He is highly exalted: the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.»

Shmot (Exodus) 15:21 · 118 / 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.

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