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 55. The Torah word הלך — “to walk” — 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.
מן הבהמה הטהורה ומן הבהמה אשר איננה טהרה ומן העוף וכל אשר רמש על האדמה
Genesis 7:8
The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, מ, and ends with the last, ה.
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 55 appears in 47 of the 54 weekly portions. That is a common number — it is in most portions.
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.
Mia — The customary Hebrew spelling of this name. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
מיה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מיה. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 55 — the same as the Torah word הלך, “to walk”. That number points to Torah page 55 of 354 — in the portion Vayetzei. What that portion is about: The dream of the ladder to heaven; Jacob with Laban: Leah and Rachel; eleven sons are born; the return. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 7:8. 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 מיה gives 55.
55
The number 55 is the Torah word הלך — «to walk» (Genesis 2:14).
The number 55, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 55 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis). These are its opening words:
למקמו ויעקב הלך לדרכו ויפגעו בו מלאכי אלהים …
The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 32:1:
וַיַּשְׁכֵּם לָבָן בַּבֹּקֶר וַיְנַשֵּׁק לְבָנָיו וְלִבְנוֹתָיו וַיְבָרֶךְ אֶתְהֶם וַיֵּלֶךְ וַיָּשָׁב לָבָן לִמְקֹמוֹ
And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. And Laban departed, and returned unto his place.
This is from the portion Vayetzei. What it is about: The dream of the ladder to heaven; Jacob with Laban: Leah and Rachel; eleven sons are born; the return.
The same number, 55, is given by these biblical names:
דומה · דליהו · אדן · נגב
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) — 55. A Torah word with the same number is הלך — “to walk” (Genesis 2:14).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 10. A Torah word with the same number is בדד — “separate” (Numbers 23:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 28. A Torah word with the same number is כח — “vigor, literally” (Genesis 4:12).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 215. A Torah word with the same number is ירה — “to flow as water” (Genesis 31:51).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 1725.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 145. A Torah word with the same number is יפנה — “Jephunneh, the name of two Israelites” (Numbers 13:6).
The word that comes out is ימצ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 140. A Torah word with the same number is מעל — “the upper part, used only adverbially with…” (Genesis 6:16).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 106. A Torah word with the same number is נון — “Nun or Non, the father of Joshua” (Exodus 33:11).
The number 55 appears in the classical books 14 times across 9 works. The earliest mention is ילקוט שמעוני (~1260).
The name מיה 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 מיה these are מ and ה. The Pentateuch has 16 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 7:8:
מן הבהמה הטהורה ומן הבהמה אשר איננה טהרה ומן העוף וכל אשר רמש על האדמה
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.