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 71. The Torah word מלא — “to fill or” — 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.
להבדיל בין הטמא ובין הטהר ובין החיה הנאכלת ובין החיה אשר לא תאכל
Leviticus 11:47
The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, ל, and ends with the last, ל.
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 71 appears in 23 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.
Liel — The customary Hebrew spelling of this name. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
ליאל
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ליאל. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 71 — the same as the Torah word מלא, “to fill or”. That number points to Torah page 71 of 354 — in the portion Miketz. What that portion is about: Pharaoh's dreams of seven cows and seven ears; Joseph rules Egypt; the brothers come for grain; the cup in Benjamin's sack. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Leviticus 11:47. 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 ליאל gives 71.
71
The number 71 is the Torah word מלא — «to fill or» (Genesis 1:22).
The number 71, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 71 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis). These are its opening words:
וטבות והנה שבע שבלים דקות ושדופת קדים צמחות …
The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 41:5:
וַיִּישָׁן וַיַּחֲלֹם שֵׁנִית וְהִנֵּה שֶׁבַע שִׁבֳּלִים עֹלוֹת בְּקָנֶה אֶחָד בְּרִיאוֹת וְטֹבוֹת
And he slept and dreamed a second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
This is from the portion Miketz. What it is about: Pharaoh's dreams of seven cows and seven ears; Joseph rules Egypt; the brothers come for grain; the cup in Benjamin's sack.
The same number, 71, is given by these biblical names:
יונה · זנוח · מיכא · הגלגל
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) — 71. A Torah word with the same number is מלא — “to fill or” (Genesis 1:22).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 8. A Torah word with the same number is אהב — “to have affection for” (Genesis 22:2).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 35. A Torah word with the same number is גבל — “to twist as arope” (Exodus 19:12).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 266. A Torah word with the same number is סור — “to turn off” (Genesis 8:13).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 1901.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 182. A Torah word with the same number is יעקב — “Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch” (Genesis 25:26).
The word that comes out is כמתכ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 480. A Torah word with the same number is עדות — “testimony” (Exodus 16:34).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 279.
The number 71 appears in the classical books 13 times across 11 works. The earliest mention is מדרש לפירושים (~1450?).
The name ליאל 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 ליאל these are ל and ל. The Pentateuch has 9 such verses. The first of them is Leviticus 11:47:
להבדיל בין הטמא ובין הטהר ובין החיה הנאכלת ובין החיה אשר לא תאכל
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.