The name Bernkhardur in Hebrew letters is ברנחרדור. 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.
ברנחרדור
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ברנחרדור. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 670 — the same as the Torah word עתר, “to entreat”. That number points to Torah page 316 of 354 — in the portion Re'eh. What that portion is about: “See”: blessing and curse; one place of worship; the tithe; permitted food; the three pilgrimage festivals. 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. Every figure can be checked by hand.
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Adding up the letters of the name ברנחרדור gives 670.
670
The number 670 is the Torah word עתר — «to entreat» (Genesis 25:21).
then it shall come to pass that the place which HaShem your G-d shall choose to cause His name to dwell there, thither shall ye bring all that I command you: your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto HaShem.
This is from the portion Re'eh. What it is about: “See”: blessing and curse; one place of worship; the tithe; permitted food; the three pilgrimage festivals.
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) — 670. A Torah word with the same number is עתר — “to entreat” (Genesis 25:21).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 31. A Torah word with the same number is אל — “to, toward” (Genesis 1:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 94. A Torah word with the same number is צד — “side” (Genesis 6:16).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2650.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 122620.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 2780.
The letters that come out are שגטסגקפג — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 558. A Torah word with the same number is ומצותיו — “and his commandments” (Deuteronomy 6:2).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 2912.
The number 670 appears in the classical books 6 times across 6 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 — 670. 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. ברנחרדור has 8 letters: ב Bet, ר Resh, נ Nun, ח Chet, ר Resh, ד Dalet, ו Vav, ר Resh. The first letter is Bet, the last is Resh.
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The name ברנחרדור 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 ברנחרדור 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.
A verse whose whole sum equals your name
אלוף אהליבמה אלוף אלה אלוף פינן
Genesis 36:41 · 26 letters in the verse
All the letters of this verse add up to 670 — exactly your name's number. The Pentateuch has 5,853 verses, and only 200 of them fall below 1000. Of the 2,980 names in our index, 80 match this way — about one name in thirty-seven.
The name ברנחרדור has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 670 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.
