The name Afanasiy in Hebrew letters is אפנסי. Below: how its number adds up, which page of the Torah it falls on and what verse stands there. Everything is computed, nothing is guessed.
אפנסי
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אפנסי. This name comes from the Greek language: the word athanatos means “immortal”. Athanasius of Alexandria was a well-known bishop of the 4th century. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 201 — the same as the Torah word מקנהו, “his livestock”. That number points to Torah page 201 of 354 — in the portion Kedoshim. What that portion is about: “You shall be holy”: the corner of the field for the poor, honest scales, “love your neighbor as yourself”; honoring the elderly. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 15:19. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
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Adding up the letters of the name אפנסי gives 201.
201
The number 201 is the Torah word מקנהו — «his livestock» (Genesis 31:18).
And the soul that turneth unto the ghosts, and unto the familiar spirits, to go astray after them, I will even set My face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
This is from the portion Kedoshim. What it is about: “You shall be holy”: the corner of the field for the poor, honest scales, “love your neighbor as yourself”; honoring the elderly.
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) — 201. A Torah word with the same number is מקנהו — “his livestock” (Genesis 31:18).
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) — 911. A Torah word with the same number is ראשית — “beginning, first fruits” (Genesis 1:1).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 12601.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 605. A Torah word with the same number is ארפכשד — “Arpachshad, son of Shem” (Genesis 10:22).
The letters that come out are תוטחמ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 463.
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 438. A Torah word with the same number is תובל — “Tubal, son of Japheth” (Genesis 10:2).
The number 201 appears in the classical books 3 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is שער הפסוקים (~1573).
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 — 201. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
Hebrew is written from right to left. אפנסי has 5 letters: א Alef, פ Pe, נ Nun, ס Samekh, י Yod. The first letter is Alef, the last is Yod.
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The name אפנסי 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 אפנסי these are א and י. The Pentateuch has 17 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 15:19:
את הקיני ואת הקנזי ואת הקדמני
This is from the portion Lech Lecha. What it is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision.
The name אפנסי has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 201 is not among them. Half of all names are like this — neither good nor bad, just a fact of counting.
Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.
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.
