Bar — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Bar in Hebrew letters is בר. 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.
בר
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is בר. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 202 — the same as the Torah word רב, “abundant”. That number points to Torah page 202 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 49:6. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. There are no predictions or judgments here — only the text of the Torah and arithmetic you can check.
Adding up the letters of the name בר gives 202.
202
The number 202 is the Torah word רב — «abundant» (Genesis 6:5).
The number 202, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 202 in the book of Vayikra (Leviticus). These are its opening words:
כל משפטי ועשיתם אתם ולא תקיא אתכם הארץ …
The verse this place falls on is Vayikra (Leviticus) 20:22:
וּשְׁמַרְתֶּם אֶת־כָּל־חֻקֹּתַי וְאֶת־כָּל־מִשְׁפָּטַי וַעֲשִׂיתֶם אֹתָם וְלֹא־תָקִיא אֶתְכֶם הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר אֲנִי מֵבִיא אֶתְכֶם שָׁמָּה לָשֶׁבֶת בָּהּ
Ye shall therefore keep all My statutes, and all Mine ordinances, and do them, that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, vomit you not out.
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.
The same number, 202, is given by these biblical names:
רב · ארא
Nine 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) — 202. A Torah word with the same number is רב — “abundant” (Genesis 6:5).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 4.
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 22. A Torah word with the same number is יחד — “a unit, i.e.” (Genesis 13:6).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 798.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 40004.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 204. A Torah word with the same number is צדיק — “just” (Genesis 6:9).
The word that comes out is שג. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 303. A Torah word with the same number is שאב — “to bale up water” (Genesis 24:11).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 922.
The number 202 appears in the classical books 12 times across 8 works. The earliest mention is עץ חיים (~1573).
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The name בר appears in the Torah as a word 6 times. The first time is Genesis 41:35.
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 בר these are ב and ר. The Pentateuch has 7 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 49:6:
בסדם אל תבא נפשי בקהלם אל תחד כבדי כי באפם הרגו איש וברצנם עקרו שור
This is from the portion Vayechi. What it is about: Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh and all his sons; Jacob's death and burial in Hebron; Joseph's death.
Nine 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) — 202. A Torah word with the same number is רב — “abundant” (Genesis 6:5).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 4.
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 22. A Torah word with the same number is יחד — “a unit, i.e.” (Genesis 13:6).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 798.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 40004.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 204. A Torah word with the same number is צדיק — “just” (Genesis 6:9).
The word that comes out is שג. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 303. A Torah word with the same number is שאב — “to bale up water” (Genesis 24:11).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 922.
Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.
Compute with a date of birth The whole Torah page 202
Other names
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How it is counted
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.
Биньямин Пичхадзе, «Хумаш 354» (חומש 354), Бней-Брак, 2002 / התשס״ג · A calculation, not a prediction.
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