The name Doroti in Hebrew letters is דורוטי. 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.
דורוטי
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is דורוטי. The name Doroti comes from Greek doron + theos, “gift of God”. In English it is written Dorothy. Dorothy is the girl in the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from 1900. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 235 — the same as the Torah word ירכה, “side, far end”. That number points to Torah page 235 of 354 — in the portion Naso. What that portion is about: The sotah — the test of the wife; the nazirite; the priestly blessing; the gifts of the tribal chiefs for the dedication of the altar. 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 “Doroti” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: דורוטי. 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 דורוטי gives 235.
235
The number 235 is the Torah word ירכה — «side, far end» (Genesis 49:13).
his offering was one silver dish, the weight thereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering;
This is from the portion Naso. What it is about: The sotah — the test of the wife; the nazirite; the priestly blessing; the gifts of the tribal chiefs for the dedication of the altar.
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) — 235. A Torah word with the same number is ירכה — “side, far end” (Genesis 49:13).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 28. A Torah word with the same number is כח — “strength” (Genesis 4:12).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 55. A Torah word with the same number is הלך — “to go, walk” (Genesis 2:14).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 947.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 40269.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 900. A Torah word with the same number is שרת — “to minister, serve” (Genesis 39:4).
The letters that come out are קפגפנמ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 353. A Torah word with the same number is נגש — “to come near” (Genesis 18:23).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1407.
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 — 235. 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. דורוטי has 6 letters: ד Dalet, ו Vav, ר Resh, ו Vav, ט Tet, י Yod. The first letter is Dalet, the last is Yod.
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The name דורוטי 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 דורוטי 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.
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: דורוטי = 235. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
«his offering was one silver dish, the weight thereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering;»
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.
