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SAPIR 861
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.
ששבצר
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ששבצר. A Tanakh name: Zerubbabel's Persian name (first in Ezra 1:8; 2 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 892. That number points to Torah page 184 of 354 — in the portion Shmini. What that portion is about: The eighth day: Aaron's first service; fire from heaven; the death of Nadab and Abihu; clean and unclean animals. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 23:12. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Sheshbazzar” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: ששבצר. 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 ששבצר gives 892.
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The number 892, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 184 in the book of Vayikra (Leviticus).
The verse this place falls on is Vayikra (Leviticus) 11:47:
לְהַבְדִּיל בֵּין הַטָּמֵא וּבֵין הַטָּהֹר וּבֵין הַחַיָּה הַנֶּאֱכֶלֶת וּבֵין הַחַיָּה אֲשֶׁר לֹא תֵאָכֵל פ
to make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.
This is from the portion Shmini. What it is about: The eighth day: Aaron's first service; fire from heaven; the death of Nadab and Abihu; clean and unclean animals.
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) — 892.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 19. A Torah word with the same number is גוי — “nation” (Genesis 10:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 82. A Torah word with the same number is לבן — “Laban, brother of Rebekah” (Genesis 24:29).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 3483.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 228104.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 3086.
The letters that come out are בבשהג — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 312. A Torah word with the same number is ישב — “to sit, dwell” (Genesis 4:16).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1746.
The number 892 appears in the classical books 1 time across 1 work. The earliest mention is רפואה למכה (~1780?).
The name ששבצר 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 ששבצר these are ש and ר. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 23:12:
ששת ימים תעשה מעשיך וביום השביעי תשבת למען ינוח שורך וחמרך וינפש בן אמתך והגר
This is from the portion Mishpatim. What it is about: Laws of the servant, damages, theft and pledges; “an eye for an eye” as compensation; the sabbatical year; “we will do and we will hear”.
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 — 892. 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 ששבצר has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 892 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