The name Bento in Hebrew letters is בנטו. 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.
בנטו
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is בנטו. This name comes from Latin: the word benedictus means “blessed”. Bento is the Portuguese form of Benedict; it was the Portuguese name of the philosopher Spinoza. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 67 — the same as the Torah word אבידן, “Abidan, chief of Benjamin”. That number points to Torah page 67 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 Genesis 7:11. 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 בנטו gives 67.
67
The number 67 is the Torah word אבידן — «Abidan, chief of Benjamin» (Numbers 1:11).
And he said: 'What pledge shall I give thee?' And she said: 'Thy signet and thy cord, and thy staff that is in thy hand.' And he gave them to her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.
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) — 67. A Torah word with the same number is אבידן — “Abidan, chief of Benjamin” (Numbers 1:11).
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) — 31. A Torah word with the same number is אל — “to, toward” (Genesis 1:9).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 264. A Torah word with the same number is ירדן — “Jordan river” (Genesis 13:10).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 2621.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 182. A Torah word with the same number is יעקב — “Jacob, son of Isaac” (Genesis 25:26).
The letters that come out are שטנפ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 439. A Torah word with the same number is בתואל — “Bethuel, father of Rebekah” (Genesis 22:22).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 949.
The number 67 appears in the classical books 23 times across 7 works. The earliest mention is מדרש לפירושים (~1450?).
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 — 67. 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. בנטו has 4 letters: ב Bet, נ Nun, ט Tet, ו Vav. The first letter is Bet, the last is Vav.
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The name בנטו 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
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 בנטו these are ב and ו. The Pentateuch has 19 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 7:11:
בשנת שש מאות שנה לחיי נח בחדש השני בשבעה עשר יום לחדש ביום הזה נבקעו כל מעינת תהום רבה וארבת השמים נפתחו
This is from the portion Noach. What it is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham.
The name בנטו has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 67 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.
