The name Bernkhard in Hebrew letters is ברנחרד. 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.
ברנחרד
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ברנחרד. The German form of Bernard, from Old German bern “bear” and hard “strong, brave”. The mathematician Bernhard Riemann lived in Germany from 1826 to 1866. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 464 — the same as the Torah word ובנות, “and daughters”. That number points to Torah page 110 of 354 — in the portion Bo. What that portion is about: Locusts, darkness and the death of the firstborn; the Passover lamb; the exodus from Egypt; the commandment of tefillin. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 40:2. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Bernkhard” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: ברנחרד. 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 ברנחרד gives 464.
464
The number 464 is the Torah word ובנות — «and daughters» (Genesis 5:4).
And HaShem said unto Moses: 'Pharaoh will not hearken unto you; that My wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.'
This is from the portion Bo. What it is about: Locusts, darkness and the death of the firstborn; the Passover lamb; the exodus from Egypt; the commandment of tefillin.
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) — 464. A Torah word with the same number is ובנות — “and daughters” (Genesis 5:4).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 23.
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 68. A Torah word with the same number is חלל — “to begin” (Genesis 4:26).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1834.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 82584.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1640.
The letters that come out are שגטסגק — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 475. A Torah word with the same number is עתה — “now” (Genesis 3:22).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 2390.
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 — 464. 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. ברנחרד has 6 letters: ב Bet, ר Resh, נ Nun, ח Chet, ר Resh, ד Dalet. The first letter is Bet, the last is Dalet.
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The name ברנחרד 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 ברנחרד these are ב and ד. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 40:2:
ביום החדש הראשון באחד לחדש תקים את משכן אהל מועד
This is from the portion Pekudei. What it is about: The accounting of the materials; the priestly garments are finished; the Tabernacle is raised on the first of Nisan; the cloud covers it.
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: ברנחרד = 464. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
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.
