The name Dorothy in Hebrew letters is דורותי. 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.
דורותי
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is דורותי. English form of the Greek Dorothea, “gift of God”. Dorothy is the girl from Kansas in “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” (1900). In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 626 — the same as the Torah word עשרון, “tenth part”. That number points to Torah page 272 of 354 — in the portion Pinchas. What that portion is about: The covenant of peace with Phinehas; the second census; the daughters of Zelophehad and inheritance; Joshua the successor; the festival offerings. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 25:2. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Dorothy” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: דורותי. 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 דורותי gives 626.
626
The number 626 is the Torah word עשרון — «tenth part» (Exodus 29:40).
To the more thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to the fewer thou shalt give the less inheritance; to each one according to those that were numbered of it shall its inheritance be given.
This is from the portion Pinchas. What it is about: The covenant of peace with Phinehas; the second census; the daughters of Zelophehad and inheritance; Joshua the successor; the festival offerings.
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) — 626. A Torah word with the same number is עשרון — “tenth part” (Exodus 29:40).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 23.
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 68. A Torah word with the same number is חלל — “to begin” (Genesis 4:26).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2397.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 200188.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1682.
The letters that come out are קפגפאמ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 304. A Torah word with the same number is חרמון — “Mount Hermon” (Deuteronomy 3:8).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1394.
The number 626 appears in the classical books 1 time across 1 work. The earliest mention is פרי עץ חיים שער חג המצות (~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 — 626. 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. דורותי has 6 letters: ד Dalet, ו Vav, ר Resh, ו Vav, ת Tav, י Yod. The first letter is Dalet, the last is Yod.
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The name דורותי 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 דורותי these are ד and י. The Pentateuch has 3 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 25:2:
דבר אל בני ישראל ויקחו לי תרומה מאת כל איש אשר ידבנו לבו תקחו את תרומתי
This is from the portion Terumah. What it is about: The offering for the Sanctuary; the Ark, the table and the lampstand; the Tabernacle and its curtains; the altar.
A verse whose whole sum equals your name
ויסעו מלבנה ויחנו ברסה
Numbers 33:21 · 19 letters in the verse
All the letters of this verse add up to 626 — 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 דורותי has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 626 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.
