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.
Rebecca (רבקה) stands in the Torah as a word of its own — 22 times. First in Genesis 22:23.
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.
ראובן שמעון לוי ויהודה
Exodus 1:2
The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, ר, 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 307 appears in 29 of the 54 weekly 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.
Rebecca — 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.
רבקה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is רבקה. The root is linked to “to bind, to tie.” Isaac’s wife, mother of Esau and Jacob; her story begins at the well in Haran (Genesis 24). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 307 — the same as the Torah word רבקה, “Ribkah, the wife of Isaac”. That number points to Torah page 307 of 354 — in the portion Eikev. What that portion is about: “Because you will heed”: the land of seven fruits; the blessing after meals; manna as a test; the second paragraph of the Shema. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 1:2. 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 רבקה gives 307.
307
The number 307 is the Torah word רבקה — «Ribkah, the wife of Isaac» (Genesis 22:23).
The number 307, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 307 in the book of Devarim (Deuteronomy). These are its opening words:
אשר ידעת לא ישימם בך ונתנם בכל שנאיך …
The verse this place falls on is Devarim (Deuteronomy) 7:15:
וְהֵסִיר ה׳ מִמְּךָ כָּל־חֹלִי וְכָל־מַדְוֵי מִצְרַיִם הָרָעִים אֲשֶׁר יָדַעְתָּ לֹא יְשִׂימָם בָּךְ וּנְתָנָם בְּכָל־שֹׂנְאֶיךָ
And HaShem will take away from thee all sickness; and He will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee, but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
This is from the portion Eikev. What it is about: “Because you will heed”: the land of seven fruits; the blessing after meals; manna as a test; the second paragraph of the Shema.
The same number, 307, is given by these biblical names:
רבקה · ארנון · רעואל · קורא
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) — 307. A Torah word with the same number is רבקה — “Ribkah, the wife of Isaac” (Genesis 22:23).
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) — 46. A Torah word with the same number is מאה — “a hundred” (Genesis 5:3).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1408.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 50029.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1011.
The word that comes out is גשדצ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 397. A Torah word with the same number is יהושוע — “Jehoshua” (Exodus 17:9).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1114.
The number 307 appears in the classical books 4 times across 3 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
The name רבקה appears in the Torah as a word 22 times. The first time is Genesis 22:23. Another 8 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 רבקה these are ר and ה. The Pentateuch has 10 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 1:2:
ראובן שמעון לוי ויהודה
This is from the portion Shemot. What it is about: Slavery in Egypt; Moses in the basket on the Nile; the burning bush and the Name; the first audience with Pharaoh.
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.