Daniel — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Daniel in Hebrew letters is דניאל. 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.
דניאל
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is דניאל. “God is my judge.” The youth taken to Babylon who interpreted the kings’ dreams; the book of Daniel is partly in Aramaic. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 95 — the same as the Torah word יפה, “beautiful”. That number points to Torah page 95 of 354 — in the portion Shemot. What that portion is about: Slavery in Egypt; Moses in the basket on the Nile; the burning bush and the Name; the first audience with Pharaoh. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 49:16. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. There are no predictions or judgments here — only the text of the Torah and arithmetic you can check.
Adding up the letters of the name דניאל gives 95.
95
The number 95 is the Torah word יפה — «beautiful» (Genesis 12:11).
The number 95, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 95 in the book of Shmot (Exodus). These are its opening words:
ממצרים ויאמר משה אל האלהים מי אנכי כי …
The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 3:10:
וְעַתָּה לְכָה וְאֶשְׁלָחֲךָ אֶל־פַּרְעֹה וְהוֹצֵא אֶת־עַמִּי בְנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵל מִמִּצְרָיִם
Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth My people the children of Israel out of Egypt.'
This is from the portion Shemot. What it is about: Slavery in Egypt; Moses in the basket on the Nile; the burning bush and the Name; the first audience with Pharaoh.
The same number, 95, is given by these biblical names:
דניאל · המן · זבולן · זבלון
Nine 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) — 95. A Torah word with the same number is יפה — “beautiful” (Genesis 12:11).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 14. A Torah word with the same number is יד — “a hand” (Genesis 3:22).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 41. A Torah word with the same number is אם — “very widely as demonstrative, lo!” (Genesis 4:7).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 366. A Torah word with the same number is חשבון — “Cheshbon, a place East of the Jordan” (Numbers 21:25).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 3517.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 282. A Torah word with the same number is עברי — “an Eberite” (Genesis 14:13).
The word that comes out is קטמתכ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 569.
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 745. A Torah word with the same number is משתה — “drink, by implication, drinking” (Genesis 19:3).
The number 95 appears in the classical books 12 times across 5 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
The full message
Every letter of the name explained, the words and namesakes with references, the Hebrew date, the letter and tribe of the month, the day 861 of your life, the psalm by age, the attestations from 834 works — a PDF built the moment you pay.
The name דניאל 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 דניאל these are ד and ל. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 49:16:
דן ידין עמו כאחד שבטי ישראל
This is from the portion Vayechi. What it is about: Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh and all his sons; Jacob's death and burial in Hebron; Joseph's death.
Nine 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) — 95. A Torah word with the same number is יפה — “beautiful” (Genesis 12:11).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 14. A Torah word with the same number is יד — “a hand” (Genesis 3:22).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 41. A Torah word with the same number is אם — “very widely as demonstrative, lo!” (Genesis 4:7).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 366. A Torah word with the same number is חשבון — “Cheshbon, a place East of the Jordan” (Numbers 21:25).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 3517.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 282. A Torah word with the same number is עברי — “an Eberite” (Genesis 14:13).
The word that comes out is קטמתכ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 569.
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 745. A Torah word with the same number is משתה — “drink, by implication, drinking” (Genesis 19:3).
Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.
Compute with a date of birth The whole Torah page 95
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How it is counted
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.
Биньямин Пичхадзе, «Хумаш 354» (חומש 354), Бней-Брак, 2002 / התשס״ג · A calculation, not a prediction.
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