The name Baruch in Hebrew letters is ברוך. 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.
ברוך
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ברוך. “Blessed.” The scribe of Jeremiah who wrote down his words (Jeremiah 36). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 228 — the same as the Torah word בכור, “firstborn”. That number points to Torah page 228 of 354 — in the portion Naso. What that portion is about: The sotah — the test of the wife; the nazirite; the priestly blessing; the gifts of the tribal chiefs for the dedication of the altar. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 40:19. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Baruch” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: ברוך. A name from the Tanakh — its Tanakh spelling is used. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
Adding up the letters of the name ברוך gives 228.
228
The number 228 is the Torah word בכור — «firstborn» (Genesis 10:15).
Speak unto the children of Israel: When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to commit a trespass against HaShem, and that soul be guilty;
This is from the portion Naso. What it is about: The sotah — the test of the wife; the nazirite; the priestly blessing; the gifts of the tribal chiefs for the dedication of the altar.
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) — 708.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 12. A Torah word with the same number is הוא — “he, it” (Genesis 2:11).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 39. A Torah word with the same number is גאלה — “redemption” (Leviticus 25:24).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 894.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 40440.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 640. A Torah word with the same number is שמש — “sun” (Genesis 15:12).
The letters that come out are שגפל — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 413. A Torah word with the same number is גבחת — “bald forehead” (Leviticus 13:42).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1034.
The number 228 appears in the classical books 12 times across 9 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 — 228. 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. ברוך has 4 letters: ב Bet, ר Resh, ו Vav, ך final Kaf. The first letter is Bet, the last is final Kaf.
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The name ברוך appears in the Torah as a word 17 times. The first time is Genesis 9:26. Another 3 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 ברוך these are ב and כ. The Pentateuch has 9 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 40:19:
בעוד שלשת ימים ישא פרעה את ראשך מעליך ותלה אותך על עץ ואכל העוף את בשרך מעליך
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.
«Speak unto the children of Israel: When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to commit a trespass against HaShem, and that soul be guilty;»
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.
