The name Boguslav in Hebrew letters is בוגסלב. 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.
בוגסלב
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is בוגסלב. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 103 — the same as the Torah word מנחה, “offering, gift”. That number points to Torah page 103 of 354 — in the portion Vaera. What that portion is about: “And I appeared”: the promise of redemption in four expressions; the first seven plagues, from blood to hail. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 3:19. 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 בוגסלב gives 103.
103
The number 103 is the Torah word מנחה — «offering, gift» (Genesis 4:3).
And the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into thy house, and into thy bed-chamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading-troughs.
This is from the portion Vaera. What it is about: “And I appeared”: the promise of redemption in four expressions; the first seven plagues, from blood to hail.
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) — 103. A Torah word with the same number is מנחה — “offering, gift” (Genesis 4:3).
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) — 40. A Torah word with the same number is חלב — “fat” (Genesis 4:4).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 393.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 4553.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 296. A Torah word with the same number is צור — “rock” (Exodus 17:6).
The letters that come out are שפרחכש — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 908. A Torah word with the same number is חרשת — “cutting, carving” (Exodus 31:5).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1113.
The number 103 appears in the classical books 18 times across 11 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
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 — 103. 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. בוגסלב has 6 letters: ב Bet, ו Vav, ג Gimel, ס Samekh, ל Lamed, ב Bet. The first letter is Bet, the last is Bet.
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The name בוגסלב 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 בוגסלב these are ב and ב. The Pentateuch has 4 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 3:19:
בזעת אפיך תאכל לחם עד שובך אל האדמה כי ממנה לקחת כי עפר אתה ואל עפר תשוב
This is from the portion Bereshit. What it is about: Creation in six days and the Sabbath; Adam and Eve in the garden; Cain and Abel; ten generations to Noah.
The name בוגסלב has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 103 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.
