The name Burkhard in Hebrew letters is בורחרד. 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.
בורחרד
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is בורחרד. A German name from Old German burg, “fortress”, and hard, “strong, brave”. Saint Burkhard was the first bishop of Würzburg in the 8th century. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 420 — the same as the Torah word ענש, “to fine, punish”. That number points to Torah page 66 of 354 — in the portion Vayeshev. What that portion is about: Joseph's dreams and his sale by his brothers; Judah and Tamar; Joseph in Potiphar's house and in prison; the dreams of the butler and the baker. 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.
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Adding up the letters of the name בורחרד gives 420.
420
The number 420 is the Torah word ענש — «to fine, punish» (Exodus 21:22).
And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.
This is from the portion Vayeshev. What it is about: Joseph's dreams and his sale by his brothers; Judah and Tamar; Joseph in Potiphar's house and in prison; the dreams of the butler and the baker.
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) — 420. A Torah word with the same number is ענש — “to fine, punish” (Exodus 21:22).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 24. A Torah word with the same number is חוי — “Hivite” (Genesis 10:17).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 60. A Torah word with the same number is ילך — “he will go” (Genesis 3:14).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1660.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 80120.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1270.
The letters that come out are שפגסגק — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 546. A Torah word with the same number is ארםנהרים — “Aram-naharaim, Mesopotamia” (Genesis 24:10).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 2296.
The number 420 appears in the classical books 5 times across 4 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 — 420. 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. בורחרד has 6 letters: ב Bet, ו Vav, ר Resh, ח Chet, ר Resh, ד Dalet. The first letter is Bet, the last is Dalet.
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The name בורחרד 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 בורחרד 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: בורחרד = 420. 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.
