The name Benedict in Hebrew letters is בנדיקט. 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.
בנדיקט
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is בנדיקט. From the Latin benedictus, “blessed”. Saint Benedict of Nursia wrote the monastic rule that shaped European monasteries in the 6th century. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 175 — the same as the Torah word צפה, “to overlay, watch”. That number points to Torah page 175 of 354 — in the portion Tzav. What that portion is about: The fire on the altar is never to go out; the priests' portion; the seven days of consecration of Aaron and his sons. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Proverbs 8:20. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Benedict” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: בנדיקט. 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 בנדיקט gives 175.
175
The number 175 is the Torah word צפה — «to overlay, watch» (Exodus 25:11).
And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings be at all eaten on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it; it shall be an abhorred thing, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.
This is from the portion Tzav. What it is about: The fire on the altar is never to go out; the priests' portion; the seven days of consecration of Aaron and his sons.
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) — 175. A Torah word with the same number is צפה — “to overlay, watch” (Exodus 25:11).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 22. A Torah word with the same number is יחד — “together” (Genesis 13:6).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 58. A Torah word with the same number is נח — “Noah” (Genesis 5:29).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 903.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 12701.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 517. A Torah word with the same number is אשורי — “Asshurite” (Genesis 25:3).
The letters that come out are שטקמדנ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 503. A Torah word with the same number is גרש — “to drive out” (Genesis 3:24).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1577.
The number 175 appears in the classical books 6 times across 4 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 — 175. 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. בנדיקט has 6 letters: ב Bet, נ Nun, ד Dalet, י Yod, ק Qof, ט Tet. The first letter is Bet, the last is Tet.
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The name בנדיקט does not stand as a word in the Pentateuch — as with most names, including many Tanakh names from the later books.
The verse of your name
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with ב and ends with ט. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 3 such verses. The first of them is Proverbs 8:20:
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: בנדיקט = 175. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
«And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings be at all eaten on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it; it shall be an abhorred thing, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.»
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.
