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
Svyataslav
Tap the letters of your name and add up its number yourself
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The number of your name
Svyataslav (סביטסלב) — This name comes from the Slavic languages. And the same number belongs to the Torah word ספיחיה — “its aftergrowth”.
Your word in the Torah
The word ספיחיה — “its aftergrowth” — has the same number as your name. Here is the verse where it first appears:
יובל הוא שנת החמשים שנה תהיה לכם לא תזרעו ולא תקצרו את ספיחיה ולא תבצרו את נזריה
Leviticus 25:11
The verse of your name
Neither the Pentateuch nor the whole Tanakh has a verse that begins with ס and ends with ב. 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 173: 1 of 54
A word with the number 173 appears in 1 of the 54 weekly portions. There is exactly one such portion in the whole Torah.
Fact. The letters of the name סביטסלב add up to 173. Plain addition — you can check it yourself.
Meaning. There is a Torah word with the same number — ספיחיה (“its aftergrowth”). 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.
The tradition counts a name in nine ways, each giving its own number. 6 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 (173).
Our verse — for two
Type the name of someone close. We find the verse that begins with a letter of one name and ends with a letter of the other — your pair's verse.
My days of the year
The days when the number of the Hebrew date equals your name's number, and the Shabbat when the world reads the portion of your verse — straight into your phone's calendar.
Every morning in Telegram — your verse, how to read it in Latin letters, and one new word. Half a minute a day. After seven days the verse stays with you.
Your name in Hebrew letters is סביטסלב. This name comes from the Slavic languages. Its source is the word or name svyat + slava, which means “holy glory”; today it is mostly found in Belarus, and it was borne by Prince Sviatoslav I of Kyiv. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 173 — the same as the Torah word ספיחיה, “its aftergrowth”. That number points to Torah page 173 of 354 — in the portion Tzav. What that portion is about: The fire on the altar is never to go out; the priests' portion; the seven days of consecration of Aaron and his sons. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Svyataslav” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: סביטסלב. Spelled by the Academy of the Hebrew Language rules for foreign names. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
If you meant the name “Svyatoslav” (סביאטוסלב), write it and I will calculate that one.
Adding up the letters of the name סביטסלב gives 173.
173
The number 173 is the Torah word ספיחיה — «its aftergrowth» (Leviticus 25:11).
And the fire upon the altar shall be kept burning thereby, it shall not go out; and the priest shall kindle wood on it every morning; and he shall lay the burnt-offering in order upon it, and shall make smoke thereon the fat of the peace-offerings.
This is from the portion Tzav. What it is about: The fire on the altar is never to go out; the priests' portion; the seven days of consecration of Aaron and his sons.
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) — 173. A Torah word with the same number is ספיחיה — “its aftergrowth” (Leviticus 25:11).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 29. A Torah word with the same number is דכה — “crushed” (Deuteronomy 23:2).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 65. A Torah word with the same number is אדני — “my Lord” (Genesis 15:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 721. A Torah word with the same number is אשתך — “your wife” (Genesis 3:17).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 8289.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 760.
The letters that come out are חשמנחכש — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 726. A Torah word with the same number is קדשברנע — “Kadesh-barnea, desert oasis” (Numbers 32:8).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1577.
The number 173 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is פרי עץ חיים שער חג המצות (~1573).
The name סביטסלב 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 ס and ends with ב. That happens with some letter pairs and means nothing in itself.
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 — 173. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: סביטסלב = 173. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
«And the fire upon the altar shall be kept burning thereby, it shall not go out; and the priest shall kindle wood on it every morning; and he shall lay the burnt-offering in order upon it, and shall make smoke thereon the fat of the peace-offerings.»
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.