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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.
שמירמות
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is שמירמות. A Tanakh name: the name of two Israelites (first in 1 Chronicles 15:18; 5 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 996. That number points to Torah page 288 of 354 — in the portion Masei. What that portion is about: The forty-two journeys through the desert; the borders of the land; the Levite cities and the cities of refuge. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 15:14. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Shemiramoth” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: שמירמות. 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 שמירמות gives 996.
996
The number 996, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 288 in the book of Bamidbar (Numbers).
The verse this place falls on is Bamidbar (Numbers) 34:24:
וּלְמַטֵּה בְנֵי־אֶפְרַיִם נָשִׂיא קְמוּאֵל בֶּן־שִׁפְטָן
and of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
This is from the portion Masei. What it is about: The forty-two journeys through the desert; the borders of the land; the Levite cities and the cities of refuge.
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) — 996.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 24. A Torah word with the same number is חוי — “Hivite” (Genesis 10:17).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 105. A Torah word with the same number is עלה — “to go up” (Genesis 2:6).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 3751.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 293336.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 3722.
The letters that come out are בימגיפא — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 146. A Torah word with the same number is קום — “to arise” (Genesis 4:8).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1468.
The number 996 appears in the classical books 1 time across 1 work. The earliest mention is תרגום יונתן.
The name שמירמות 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 שמירמות these are ש and ת. The Pentateuch has 17 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 15:14:
שמעו עמים ירגזון חיל אחז ישבי פלשת
This is from the portion Beshalach. What it is about: The parting of the sea and the song of Moses and Miriam; manna and quail; water from the rock; the war with Amalek.
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 — 996. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
Your name's day
The name שמירמות has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 996 is not among them. Half of all names are like this — neither good nor bad, just a fact of counting.
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