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.
Or (אור) stands in the Torah as a word of its own — 4 times. First in Genesis 1:3.
Or (אור) — “Light.” The first thing created: “and God said, let there be light” (Genesis 1:3).
And the same number belongs to the Torah word רבה — “to increase”.
207 and 207.
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.
אדני שמעני ארץ ארבע מאת שקל כסף ביני ובינך מה הוא ואת מתך קבר
Genesis 23:15
The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, א, 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 207 appears in 32 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.
Or — 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.
אור
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אור. “Light.” The first thing created: “and God said, let there be light” (Genesis 1:3). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 207 — the same as the Torah word רבה, “to increase”. That number points to Torah page 207 of 354 — in the portion Emor. What that portion is about: Laws of the priests; animals without blemish; the calendar of festivals — from the Sabbath to Sukkot; the lamp and the showbread. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 23:15. 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 אור gives 207.
207
The number 207 is the Torah word רבה — «to increase» (Genesis 1:22).
The number 207, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 207 in the book of Vayikra (Leviticus). These are its opening words:
וידבר יהוה אל משה לאמר דבר אל בני …
The verse this place falls on is Vayikra (Leviticus) 23:23:
וַיְדַבֵּר ה׳ אֶל־מֹשֶׁה לֵּאמֹר
And HaShem spoke unto Moses, saying:
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.
The same number, 207, is given by these biblical names:
רבה · רהב · אור · גדר
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) — 207. A Torah word with the same number is רבה — “to increase” (Genesis 1:22).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 9. A Torah word with the same number is בוא — “to go or come” (Genesis 2:19).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 27. A Torah word with the same number is בכה — “to weep” (Genesis 21:16).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 817.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 40037.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 215. A Torah word with the same number is ירה — “to flow as water” (Genesis 31:51).
The word that comes out is תפג. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 483.
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 633.
The number 207 appears in the classical books 37 times across 22 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
The name אור appears in the Torah as a word 4 times. The first time is Genesis 1:3. Another 7 times it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
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 אור these are א and ר. The Pentateuch has 15 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 23:15:
אדני שמעני ארץ ארבע מאת שקל כסף ביני ובינך מה הוא ואת מתך קבר
This is from the portion Chayei Sarah. What it is about: Sarah's death and the purchase of the cave of Machpelah; the servant seeks a wife for Isaac; Rebecca at the well; Abraham's death.
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.