The name Chedorlaomer in Hebrew letters is כדרלעמר. 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.
כדרלעמר
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is כדרלעמר. A Tanakh name: an early Persian king (first in Genesis 14:1; 5 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 564 — the same as the Torah word כדרלעמר, “Chedorlaomer, king of Elam”. That number points to Torah page 210 of 354 — in the portion Behar. What that portion is about: “On the mountain”: the sabbatical year and the jubilee; the land is not sold forever; redemption of land and servants; the ban on interest. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 40:15. 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 כדרלעמר gives 564.
564
The number 564 is the Torah word כדרלעמר — «Chedorlaomer, king of Elam» (Genesis 14:1).
And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and there shall be unto thee the days of seven sabbaths of years, even forty and nine years.
This is from the portion Behar. What it is about: “On the mountain”: the sabbatical year and the jubilee; the land is not sold forever; redemption of land and servants; the ban on interest.
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) — 564. A Torah word with the same number is כדרלעמר — “Chedorlaomer, king of Elam” (Genesis 14:1).
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) — 96. A Torah word with the same number is מלאכה — “work” (Genesis 2:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2250.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 87816.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1774.
The letters that come out are לקגכזיג — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 173. A Torah word with the same number is ספיחיה — “its aftergrowth” (Leviticus 25:11).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1838.
The number 564 appears in the classical books 1 time across 1 work. The earliest mention is שער הפסוקים (~1573).
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 — 564. 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. כדרלעמר has 7 letters: כ Kaf, ד Dalet, ר Resh, ל Lamed, ע Ayin, מ Mem, ר Resh. The first letter is Kaf, the last is Resh.
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The name כדרלעמר appears in the Torah as a word 5 times. The first time is التكوين 14:1.
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 כדרלעמר these are כ and ר. The Pentateuch has 15 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 40:15:
כי גנב גנבתי מארץ העברים וגם פה לא עשיתי מאומה כי שמו אתי בבור
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.
The name כדרלעמר has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 564 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.
