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 246. The Torah word מדבר — “a pasture” — 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.
מהר המלט שמה כי לא אוכל לעשות דבר עד באך שמה על כן קרא שם העיר צוער
Genesis 19:22
The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, מ, and ends with the last, ר.
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 246 appears in 36 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.
Mor — The customary Hebrew spelling of this name. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
מור
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מור. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 246 — the same as the Torah word מדבר, “a pasture”. That number points to Torah page 246 of 354 — in the portion Shlach. What that portion is about: The twelve spies; forty years for forty days; challah and tzitzit. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 19:22. 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 מור gives 246.
246
The number 246 is the Torah word מדבר — «a pasture» (Genesis 14:6).
The number 246, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 246 in the book of Bamidbar (Numbers). These are its opening words:
העם בלילה ההוא וילנו על משה ועל אהרן …
The verse this place falls on is Bamidbar (Numbers) 14:1:
וַתִּשָּׂא כָּל־הָעֵדָה וַיִּתְּנוּ אֶת־קוֹלָם וַיִּבְכּוּ הָעָם בַּלַּיְלָה הַהוּא
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
This is from the portion Shlach. What it is about: The twelve spies; forty years for forty days; challah and tzitzit.
The same number, 246, is given by these biblical names:
גבריאל
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) — 246. A Torah word with the same number is מדבר — “a pasture” (Genesis 14:6).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 12. A Torah word with the same number is הוא — “she or it)” (Genesis 2:11).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 39. A Torah word with the same number is גאלה — “redemption” (Leviticus 25:24).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 961.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 41636.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 332. A Torah word with the same number is לבש — “wrap around, i.e.” (Genesis 3:21).
The word that comes out is יפג. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 93. A Torah word with the same number is צבא — “a mass of persons” (Genesis 2:1).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 602. A Torah word with the same number is בתר — “to chop up” (Genesis 15:10).
The number 246 appears in the classical books 6 times across 5 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
The name מור 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 מור these are מ and ר. The Pentateuch has 3 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 19:22:
מהר המלט שמה כי לא אוכל לעשות דבר עד באך שמה על כן קרא שם העיר צוער
This is from the portion Vayera. What it is about: Three visitors at Abraham's tent; the plea for Sodom; the birth of Isaac; the binding of Isaac on Mount Moriah.
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.