The name Cyril in Hebrew letters is סיריל. 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.
סיריל
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is סיריל. Cyril is a personal name of Greek origin: it comes from the word kyrios, which means “lord”. In the 9th century Saint Cyril and his brother Methodius created an alphabet for the Slavs. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 310 — the same as the Torah word חשב, “to reckon, think”. That number points to Torah page 310 of 354 — in the portion Eikev. What that portion is about: “Because you will heed”: the land of seven fruits; the blessing after meals; manna as a test; the second paragraph of the Shema. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Isaiah 30:11. 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 סיריל gives 310.
310
The number 310 is the Torah word חשב — «to reckon, think» (Genesis 15:6).
And HaShem delivered unto me the two tables of stone written with the finger of G-d; and on them was written according to all the words, which HaShem spoke with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
This is from the portion Eikev. What it is about: “Because you will heed”: the land of seven fruits; the blessing after meals; manna as a test; the second paragraph of the Shema.
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) — 310. A Torah word with the same number is חשב — “to reckon, think” (Genesis 15:6).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 13. A Torah word with the same number is אחד — “one” (Genesis 1:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 67. A Torah word with the same number is אבידן — “Abidan, chief of Benjamin” (Numbers 1:11).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1265.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 44700.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 990.
The letters that come out are חמגמכ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 111. A Torah word with the same number is אלף — “thousand” (Genesis 20:16).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 744. A Torah word with the same number is שותלח — “Shuthelah, son of Ephraim” (Numbers 26:35).
The number 310 appears in the classical books 27 times across 16 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 — 310. 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. סיריל has 5 letters: ס Samekh, י Yod, ר Resh, י Yod, ל Lamed. The first letter is Samekh, the last is Lamed.
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The name סיריל 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 ל. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — there it has exactly one, Isaiah 30:11:
סורו מני דרך הטו מני ארח השביתו מפנינו את קדוש ישראל
A verse whose whole sum equals your name
גד גדוד יגודנו והוא יגד עקב
Genesis 49:19 · 22 letters in the verse
All the letters of this verse add up to 310 — exactly your name's number. The Pentateuch has 5,853 verses, and only 200 of them fall below 1000. Of the 2,980 names in our index, 80 match this way — about one name in thirty-seven.
The name סיריל has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 310 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.
