The name Beverly in Hebrew letters is בברלי. 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.
בברלי
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is בברלי. An English name from a place name: Old English words for “beaver” and “stream”. Beverley is a town in Yorkshire, and Beverly Hills in California has the same name. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 244 — the same as the Torah word מרד, “to rebel”. That number points to Torah page 244 of 354 — in the portion Behaalotcha. What that portion is about: Lighting the lampstand; the second Passover; the cloud leads the camp; quail and complaints; Miriam and tzaraat. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 19:1. 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 בברלי gives 244.
244
The number 244 is the Torah word מרד — «to rebel» (Genesis 14:4).
And Aaron said unto Moses: 'Oh my lord, lay not, I pray thee, sin upon us, for that we have done foolishly, and for that we have sinned.
This is from the portion Behaalotcha. What it is about: Lighting the lampstand; the second Passover; the cloud leads the camp; quail and complaints; Miriam and tzaraat.
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) — 244. A Torah word with the same number is מרד — “to rebel” (Genesis 14:4).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 10. A Torah word with the same number is בדד — “alone” (Numbers 23:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 46. A Torah word with the same number is מאה — “hundred” (Genesis 5:3).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 961.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 41008.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 688. A Torah word with the same number is ממחרת — “on the next day” (Genesis 19:34).
The letters that come out are ששגכמ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 663.
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1428.
The number 244 appears in the classical books 1 time across 1 work. The earliest mention is זהר חדש (מנוקד).
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 — 244. 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. בברלי has 5 letters: ב Bet, ב Bet, ר Resh, ל Lamed, י Yod. The first letter is Bet, the last is Yod.
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The name בברלי 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 בברלי these are ב and י. The Pentateuch has 16 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 19:1:
בחדש השלישי לצאת בני ישראל מארץ מצרים ביום הזה באו מדבר סיני
This is from the portion Yitro. What it is about: Jethro's counsel on judges; standing at Sinai; the Ten Utterances; “you shall not make yourself an idol”.
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.
