The name Ashvath in Hebrew letters is עשות. 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.
עשות
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is עשות. A Tanakh name: the name of an Israelite (first in 1 Chronicles 7:33; 1 mention in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “bright”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 776 — the same as the Torah word תעשו, “you shall do”. That number points to Torah page 68 of 354 — in the portion Vayeshev. What that portion is about: Joseph's dreams and his sale by his brothers; Judah and Tamar; Joseph in Potiphar's house and in prison; the dreams of the butler and the baker. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Numbers 10:2. 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 עשות gives 776.
776
The number 776 is the Torah word תעשו — «you shall do» (Genesis 19:8).
And Joseph found favour in his sight, and he ministered unto him. And he appointed him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
This is from the portion Vayeshev. What it is about: Joseph's dreams and his sale by his brothers; Judah and Tamar; Joseph in Potiphar's house and in prison; the dreams of the butler and the baker.
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) — 776. A Torah word with the same number is תעשו — “you shall do” (Genesis 19:8).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 20. A Torah word with the same number is היה — “to be, become” (Genesis 1:2).
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) — 2936.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 254936.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1592.
The letters that come out are זבפא — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 90. A Torah word with the same number is מן — “from” (Genesis 2:6).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 908. A Torah word with the same number is חרשת — “cutting, carving” (Exodus 31:5).
The number 776 appears in the classical books 6 times across 3 works. The earliest mention is מעשה רוקח על המשנה (~1740).
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 — 776. 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. עשות has 4 letters: ע Ayin, ש Shin, ו Vav, ת Tav. The first letter is Ayin, the last is Tav.
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The name עשות appears in the Torah as a word 3 times. The first time is Genesis 2:3. Another 70 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 עשות these are ע and ת. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Numbers 10:2:
עשה לך שתי חצוצרת כסף מקשה תעשה אתם והיו לך למקרא העדה ולמסע את המחנות
This is from the portion Behaalotcha. What it is about: Lighting the lampstand; the second Passover; the cloud leads the camp; quail and complaints; Miriam and tzaraat.
The name עשות has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 776 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.
