The name Ashkenaz in Hebrew letters is אשכנז. 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.
אשכנז
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אשכנז. A Tanakh name: a Japhethite; also his descendants (first in Genesis 10:3; 3 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 378 — the same as the Torah word שבוע, “week”. That number points to Torah page 24 of 354 — in the portion Lech Lecha. What that portion is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 36:15. 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 אשכנז gives 378.
378
The number 378 is the Torah word שבוע — «week» (Genesis 29:27).
And G-d said unto Abraham: 'As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
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.
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) — 378. A Torah word with the same number is שבוע — “week” (Genesis 29:27).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 18. A Torah word with the same number is חי — “living” (Genesis 1:20).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 54. A Torah word with the same number is מטה — “staff, tribe” (Genesis 38:18).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1394.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 92950.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1372.
The letters that come out are תבלטע — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 511. A Torah word with the same number is אסנת — “Asenath, wife of Joseph” (Genesis 41:45).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 744. A Torah word with the same number is שותלח — “Shuthelah, son of Ephraim” (Numbers 26:35).
The number 378 appears in the classical books 37 times across 19 works. The earliest mention is עץ חיים (~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 — 378. 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. אשכנז has 5 letters: א Alef, ש Shin, כ Kaf, נ Nun, ז Zayin. The first letter is Alef, the last is Zayin.
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The name אשכנז appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Genesis 10:3.
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 אשכנז these are א and ז. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Genesis 36:15:
אלה אלופי בני עשו בני אליפז בכור עשו אלוף תימן אלוף אומר אלוף צפו אלוף קנז
This is from the portion Vayishlach. What it is about: Wrestling with the angel and the name Israel; the meeting with Esau; Dinah in Shechem; the birth of Benjamin and Rachel's death.
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.
