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 336. The Torah word שול — “a skirt” — 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.
מכל הבהמה הטהורה תקח לך שבעה שבעה איש ואשתו ומן הבהמה אשר לא טהרה הוא שנים איש ואשתו
Genesis 7:2
The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, מ, and ends with the last, ו.
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 336 appears in 8 of the 54 weekly portions. That is a rare number: most numbers appear more often.
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.
Marcelo — The customary Hebrew spelling of this name. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
מרסלו
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מרסלו. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 336 — the same as the Torah word שול, “a skirt”. That number points to Torah page 336 of 354 — in the portion Ki Teitzei. What that portion is about: “When you go out”: seventy-four commandments — the bird's nest, honest weights, divorce, remembering Amalek. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 7:2. 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 מרסלו gives 336.
336
The number 336 is the Torah word שול — «a skirt» (Exodus 28:33).
The number 336, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 336 in the book of Devarim (Deuteronomy). These are its opening words:
נעלו מעל רגלו וירקה בפניו וענתה ואמרה ככה …
The verse this place falls on is Devarim (Deuteronomy) 25:9:
וְנִגְּשָׁה יְבִמְתּוֹ אֵלָיו לְעֵינֵי הַזְּקֵנִים וְחָלְצָה נַעֲלוֹ מֵעַל רַגְלוֹ וְיָרְקָה בְּפָנָיו וְעָנְתָה וְאָמְרָה כָּכָה יֵעָשֶׂה לָאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר לֹא־יִבְנֶה אֶת־בֵּית אָחִיו
then shall his brother's wife draw nigh unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say: 'So shall it be done unto the man that doth not build up his brother's house.'
This is from the portion Ki Teitzei. What it is about: “When you go out”: seventy-four commandments — the bird's nest, honest weights, divorce, remembering Amalek.
The same number, 336, is given by these biblical names:
שלו · מצור · פורים · כושי
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) — 336. A Torah word with the same number is שול — “a skirt” (Exodus 28:33).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 21. A Torah word with the same number is אך — “a particle of affirmation, surely” (Genesis 7:23).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 66. A Torah word with the same number is כמו — “a form of the prefix 'k-', but used separately…” (Genesis 19:15).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1321.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 46136.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1246.
The word that comes out is יגחכפ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 121. A Torah word with the same number is אצל — “a side” (Genesis 39:10).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 796.
The number 336 appears in the classical books 6 times across 5 works. The earliest mention is מדרש לפירושים (~1450?).
The name מרסלו 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 מרסלו these are מ and ו. The Pentateuch has 5 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 7:2:
מכל הבהמה הטהורה תקח לך שבעה שבעה איש ואשתו ומן הבהמה אשר לא טהרה הוא שנים איש ואשתו
This is from the portion Noach. What it is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham.
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.