The name Bocheru in Hebrew letters is בכרו. 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.
בכרו
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is בכרו. A Tanakh name: an Israelite (first in 1 Chronicles 8:38; 2 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “first-born”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 228 — the same as the Torah word בכור, “firstborn”. That number points to Torah page 228 of 354 — in the portion Naso. What that portion is about: The sotah — the test of the wife; the nazirite; the priestly blessing; the gifts of the tribal chiefs for the dedication of the altar. 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 בכרו gives 228.
228
The number 228 is the Torah word בכור — «firstborn» (Genesis 10:15).
Speak unto the children of Israel: When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to commit a trespass against HaShem, and that soul be guilty;
This is from the portion Naso. What it is about: The sotah — the test of the wife; the nazirite; the priestly blessing; the gifts of the tribal chiefs for the dedication of the altar.
The same number, 228, is given by these Tanakh names:
Baruch ברוך
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) — 228. A Torah word with the same number is בכור — “firstborn” (Genesis 10:15).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 12. A Torah word with the same number is הוא — “he, it” (Genesis 2:11).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 39. A Torah word with the same number is גאלה — “redemption” (Leviticus 25:24).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 894.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 40440.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 474. A Torah word with the same number is דעת — “knowledge” (Genesis 2:9).
The letters that come out are שלגפ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 413. A Torah word with the same number is גבחת — “bald forehead” (Leviticus 13:42).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1034.
The number 228 appears in the classical books 12 times across 9 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
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 — 228. 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. בכרו has 4 letters: ב Bet, כ Kaf, ר Resh, ו Vav. The first letter is Bet, the last is Vav.
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The name בכרו appears in the Torah as a word 2 times. The first time is Genesis 10:15.
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 בכרו 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.
«Speak unto the children of Israel: When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to commit a trespass against HaShem, and that soul be guilty;»
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.
