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How your name is written in the letters of the Torah

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

Rekem

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The number of your name

Rekem (רקם) stands in the Torah as a word of its own — 7 times. First in Exodus 26:36.

Rekem (רקם) — A Tanakh name: a Midianite and an Israelite (first in Numbers 31:8; 6 mentions in the Tanakh).
And the same number belongs to the Torah word שם — “there”.

Your word in the Torah

The word שם — “there” — has the same number as your name. Here is the verse where it first appears:

ויטע ה׳ אלהים גן בעדן מקדם וישם שם את האדם אשר יצר

Genesis 2:8

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.

רק אדמת הכהנים לא קנה כי חק לכהנים מאת פרעה ואכלו את חקם אשר נתן להם פרעה על כן לא מכרו את אדמתם

Genesis 47:22

The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, ר, and ends with the last, מ.

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

Torah portions with a word of number 340: 49 of 54

You are not alone in this number

The same number belongs to these names:

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How to read your number

Fact. The letters of the name רקם add up to 340. Plain addition — you can check it yourself.

Meaning. There is a Torah word with the same number — שם (“there”). A matching sum does not mean the word is 'about you'; it is a reason to look at what in it matters to you.

A question for yourself. What in this do you recognise in yourself — and what would you like to strengthen?

Practice. This week: open the verse of your name, read it slowly three times and write down one thought that stays with you.

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The nine numbers of your name

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The tradition counts a name in nine ways, each giving its own number. 7 of the nine have a word of their own in the Torah. We showed one. The rest are in the full report.

A verse for what you need

Pick a theme — we show a Tanakh verse on it that contains a word with your name's number (340).

Our verse — for two

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My days of the year

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רקם

In short

Your name in Hebrew letters is רקם. A Tanakh name: a Midianite and an Israelite (first in Numbers 31:8; 6 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “many-colored”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 340 — the same as the Torah word שם, “there”. That number points to Torah page 340 of 354 — in the portion Ki Tavo. What that portion is about: “When you enter”: the first fruits and the declaration; the stones on Mount Ebal; blessings and admonitions. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 47:22. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.

You wrote “Rekem” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: רקם. A name from the Tanakh — its Tanakh spelling is used. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.

Adding up the letters of the name רקם gives 340.

340

The number 340 is the Torah word שם — «there» (Genesis 2:8).

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This number is shared with 5 other name(s) out of the 2,980 in the index.

The number 340, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 340 in the book of Devarim (Deuteronomy).

The verse this place falls on is Devarim (Deuteronomy) 28:9:

יְקִימְךָ ה׳ לוֹ לְעַם קָדוֹשׁ כַּאֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּע־לָךְ כִּי תִשְׁמֹר אֶת־מִצְוֺת ה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ וְהָלַכְתָּ בִּדְרָכָיו

HaShem will establish thee for a holy people unto Himself, as He hath sworn unto thee; if thou shalt keep the commandments of HaShem thy G-d, and walk in His ways.

This is from the portion Ki Tavo. What it is about: “When you enter”: the first fruits and the declaration; the stones on Mount Ebal; blessings and admonitions.

Other 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) — 900. A Torah word with the same number is שרת — “to minister, serve” (Genesis 39:4).

Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 7. A Torah word with the same number is או — “or” (Genesis 24:49).

Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 52. A Torah word with the same number is בן — “son” (Genesis 3:16).

Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1535.

Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 51600.

Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 840. A Torah word with the same number is תולדת — “generations of” (Genesis 5:1).

The letters that come out are גדי — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 17. A Torah word with the same number is טוב — “good” (Genesis 1:4).

Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 776. A Torah word with the same number is תעשו — “you shall do” (Genesis 19:8).

The number 340 appears in the classical books 25 times across 21 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).

The name רקם appears in the Torah as a word 7 times. The first time is Exodus 26:36. Another 2 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 רקם these are ר and מ. The Pentateuch has 7 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 47:22:

רק אדמת הכהנים לא קנה כי חק לכהנים מאת פרעה ואכלו את חקם אשר נתן להם פרעה על כן לא מכרו את אדמתם

This is from the portion Vayigash. What it is about: Judah pleads for Benjamin; Joseph reveals himself to his brothers; Jacob goes down to Egypt; the family settles in Goshen.

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The full message

Every letter of the name explained, the words and namesakes with references, the Hebrew date, the letter and tribe of the month, day 861 of your life (±1), the psalm by age, the attestations from the classical books — a PDF sent to your email.

The number of the day, every morning

Every date has a number too. Once a year it will match the number of your name — 340. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.

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Your name's day

Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: רקם = 340. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.

2027-02-0629 Shvat 5787in 105 days

The verse of that day

«HaShem will establish thee for a holy people unto Himself, as He hath sworn unto thee; if thou shalt keep the commandments of HaShem thy G-d, and walk in His ways.»

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 28:9 · 340 / 354

Half of all names have such a day.

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How it is counted

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.

Binyamin Pichkhadze, «Chumash 354» (חומש 354), Bnei Brak, 2002 · Addition, not prophecy.

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (WLC), CC BY 4.0

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