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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

Rubens

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The number of your name

Rubens (רובנס) — The name comes from Hebrew: from ראובן, Reuben; in the Tanakh, a son of Jacob (Genesis 29:32).
And the same number belongs to the Torah word אליעזר — “Eliezer, servant of Abraham”.

Your word in the Torah

The word אליעזר — “Eliezer, servant of Abraham” — has the same number as your name. Here is the verse where it first appears:

ויאמר אברם אדני ה׳ מה תתן לי ואנכי הולך ערירי ובן משק ביתי הוא דמשק אליעזר

Genesis 15:2

The verse of your name

Neither the Pentateuch nor the whole Tanakh has a verse that begins with ר and ends with ס. That happens with some letter pairs and means nothing in itself.

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 318: 39 of 54

You are not alone in this number

The same number belongs to these names:

Altagracia Azriel Balfur Belisario Caridad Eliecer Eliezer Gektor Gontran Ishbibenob

How to read your number

Fact. The letters of the name רובנס add up to 318. Plain addition — you can check it yourself.

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

Story. אליעזר — this name has the same sum, 318. Abraham went to war with 318 men. One view in the Talmud: it was Eliezer alone — his name adds up to exactly 318. (Nedarim 32a)

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

318standard318with finals21reduced57ordinal1269cumulative46140squares1190building400atbash1160filling

The tradition counts a name in nine ways, each giving its own number. 5 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

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Our verse — for two

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רובנס

In short

Your name in Hebrew letters is רובנס. The name comes from Hebrew: from ראובן, Reuben; in the Tanakh, a son of Jacob (Genesis 29:32). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “see, a son”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 318 — the same as the Torah word אליעזר, “Eliezer, servant of Abraham”. That number points to Torah page 318 of 354 — in the portion Re'eh. What that portion is about: “See”: blessing and curse; one place of worship; the tithe; permitted food; the three pilgrimage festivals. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.

You wrote “Rubens” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: רובנס. The customary Hebrew spelling of this name. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.

Adding up the letters of the name רובנס gives 318.

318

The number 318 is the Torah word אליעזר — «Eliezer, servant of Abraham» (Genesis 15:2).

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

The number 318, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 318 in the book of Devarim (Deuteronomy).

The verse this place falls on is Devarim (Deuteronomy) 13:6:

וְהַנָּבִיא הַהוּא אוֹ חֹלֵם הַחֲלוֹם הַהוּא יוּמָת כִּי דִבֶּר־סָרָה עַל־ה׳ אֱלֹהֵיכֶם הַמּוֹצִיא אֶתְכֶם מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם וְהַפֹּדְךָ מִבֵּית עֲבָדִים לְהַדִּיחֲךָ מִן־הַדֶּרֶךְ אֲשֶׁר צִוְּךָ ה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ לָלֶכֶת בָּהּ וּבִעַרְתָּ הָרָע מִקִּרְבֶּךָ

And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken perversion against HaShem your G-d, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage, to draw thee aside out of the way which HaShem thy G-d commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

This is from the portion Re'eh. What it is about: “See”: blessing and curse; one place of worship; the tithe; permitted food; the three pilgrimage festivals.

The same number, 318, is given by these Tanakh names:

Eliezer אליעזר

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) — 318. A Torah word with the same number is אליעזר — “Eliezer, servant of Abraham” (Genesis 15:2).

Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 21. A Torah word with the same number is אך — “only, surely” (Genesis 7:23).

Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 57. A Torah word with the same number is מזבח — “altar” (Genesis 8:20).

Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1269.

Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 46140.

Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1190.

The letters that come out are גפשטח — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 400. A Torah word with the same number is שנים — “two” (Genesis 1:16).

Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1160.

The number 318 appears in the classical books 6 times across 6 works. The earliest mention is מדרש לפירושים (~1450?).

The name רובנס 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

Neither the Pentateuch nor the whole Tanakh has a verse that begins with ר and ends with ס. That happens with some letter pairs and means nothing in itself.

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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 — 318. 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: רובנס = 318. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.

2027-01-157 Shvat 5787in 83 days

The verse of that day

«And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken perversion against HaShem your G-d, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage, to draw thee aside out of the way which HaShem thy G-d commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.»

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 13:6 · 318 / 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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