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 103. The Torah word מנחה — “a donation” — 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.
נבלה וטרפה לא יאכל לטמאה בה אני ה׳
Leviticus 22:8
The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, נ, 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 103 appears in 39 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.
Nechama — A name of biblical origin — its biblical spelling is used. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
נחמה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is נחמה. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 103 — the same as the Torah word מנחה, “a donation”. That number points to Torah page 103 of 354 — in the portion Vaera. What that portion is about: “And I appeared”: the promise of redemption in four expressions; the first seven plagues, from blood to hail. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Leviticus 22:8. 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 נחמה gives 103.
103
The number 103 is the Torah word מנחה — «a donation» (Genesis 4:3).
The number 103, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 103 in the book of Shmot (Exodus). These are its opening words:
צפרדעים ועלו ובאו בביתך ובחדר משכבך ועל מטתך …
The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 7:28:
וְשָׁרַץ הַיְאֹר צְפַרְדְּעִים וְעָלוּ וּבָאוּ בְּבֵיתֶךָ וּבַחֲדַר מִשְׁכָּבְךָ וְעַל־מִטָּתֶךָ וּבְבֵית עֲבָדֶיךָ וּבְעַמֶּךָ וּבְתַנּוּרֶיךָ וּבְמִשְׁאֲרוֹתֶיךָ
And the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into thy house, and into thy bed-chamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading-troughs.
This is from the portion Vaera. What it is about: “And I appeared”: the promise of redemption in four expressions; the first seven plagues, from blood to hail.
The same number, 103, is given by these biblical names:
אבימלך · ציבא · צובה · געל
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) — 103. A Torah word with the same number is מנחה — “a donation” (Genesis 4:3).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 22. A Torah word with the same number is יחד — “a unit, i.e.” (Genesis 13:6).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 40. A Torah word with the same number is חלב — “fat, whether literally or figuratively” (Genesis 4:4).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 391. A Torah word with the same number is ישועה — “something saved, i.e.” (Genesis 49:18).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 4189.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 309. A Torah word with the same number is שדה — “a field” (Genesis 2:5).
The word that comes out is טסיצ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 169. A Torah word with the same number is יקטן — “Joktan, an Arabian patriarch” (Genesis 10:25).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 610. A Torah word with the same number is יתר — “to jut over or exceed” (Genesis 30:36).
The number 103 appears in the classical books 18 times across 11 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
The name נחמה 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 נחמה these are נ and ה. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Leviticus 22:8:
נבלה וטרפה לא יאכל לטמאה בה אני ה׳
This is from the portion Emor. What it is about: Laws of the priests; animals without blemish; the calendar of festivals — from the Sabbath to Sukkot; the lamp and the showbread.
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.