The name Cecily in Hebrew letters is ססילי. 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.
ססילי
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ססילי. This name comes from Latin: the word caecus means “blind”. Cecily is an old English form of Cecilia; Cecily Neville was the mother of two English kings. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 170 — the same as the Torah word ענן, “cloud”. That number points to Torah page 170 of 354 — in the portion Vayikra. What that portion is about: “And He called”: the burnt, grain, peace, sin and guilt offerings — the order of the sacrifices. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Psalms 6:9. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Cecily” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: ססילי. A name from the Tanakh — its Tanakh spelling is used. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
Adding up the letters of the name ססילי gives 170.
170
The number 170 is the Torah word ענן — «cloud» (Genesis 9:13).
if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, be known to him, he shall bring for his offering a goat, a male without blemish.
This is from the portion Vayikra. What it is about: “And He called”: the burnt, grain, peace, sin and guilt offerings — the order of the sacrifices.
The same number, 170, is given by these Tanakh names:
Naomi נעמי
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) — 170. A Torah word with the same number is ענן — “cloud” (Genesis 9:13).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 17. A Torah word with the same number is טוב — “good” (Genesis 1:4).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 62. A Torah word with the same number is בין — “between” (Genesis 1:4).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 725. A Torah word with the same number is תקטירו — “you shall burn” (Leviticus 2:11).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 8300.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 640. A Torah word with the same number is שמש — “sun” (Genesis 15:12).
The letters that come out are חחמכמ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 116. A Torah word with the same number is נוס — “to flee” (Genesis 14:10).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 354. A Torah word with the same number is דשן — “ashes, fatness” (Leviticus 1:16).
The number 170 appears in the classical books 14 times across 9 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 — 170. 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. ססילי has 5 letters: ס Samekh, ס Samekh, י Yod, ל Lamed, י Yod. The first letter is Samekh, the last is Yod.
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The name ססילי 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
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with ס and ends with י. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 10 such verses. The first of them is Psalms 6:9:
The name ססילי has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 170 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.
