The name Appaim in Hebrew letters is אפים. 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.
אפים
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אפים. A Tanakh name: an Israelite (first in 1 Chronicles 2:30; 2 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 131 — the same as the Torah word מצא, “to find”. That number points to Torah page 131 of 354 — in the portion Mishpatim. What that portion 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 verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 2:4. 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 אפים gives 131.
131
The number 131 is the Torah word מצא — «to find» (Genesis 2:20).
For Mine angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.
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”.
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) — 691. A Torah word with the same number is הפרות — “the cows” (Genesis 41:3).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 14. A Torah word with the same number is יד — “hand” (Genesis 3:22).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 41. A Torah word with the same number is אם — “if” (Genesis 4:7).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 606. A Torah word with the same number is תור — “to scout out” (Numbers 10:33).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 8101.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 304. A Torah word with the same number is חרמון — “Mount Hermon” (Deuteronomy 3:8).
The letters that come out are תומי — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 456. A Torah word with the same number is יתום — “orphan” (Exodus 22:21).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 292. A Torah word with the same number is רביעי — “fourth” (Genesis 1:19).
The number 131 appears in the classical books 27 times across 18 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
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 — 131. 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. אפים has 4 letters: א Alef, פ Pe, י Yod, ם final Mem. The first letter is Alef, the last is final Mem.
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The name אפים appears in the Torah as a word 4 times. The first time is Genesis 19:1. Another 4 times it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
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 אפים these are א and מ. The Pentateuch has 83 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 2:4:
אלה תולדות השמים והארץ בהבראם ביום עשות ה׳ אלהים ארץ ושמים
This is from the portion Bereshit. What it is about: Creation in six days and the Sabbath; Adam and Eve in the garden; Cain and Abel; ten generations to Noah.
«For Mine angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.»
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.
