The name Er in Hebrew letters is ער. 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.
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In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ער. A Tanakh name: the name of two Israelites (first in Genesis 38:3; 10 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “watchful”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 270 — the same as the Torah word רע, “bad, evil”. That number points to Torah page 270 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 Genesis 6:14. 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 ער gives 270.
270
The number 270 is the Torah word רע — «bad, evil» (Genesis 2:9).
The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites;
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) — 270. A Torah word with the same number is רע — “bad, evil” (Genesis 2:9).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 9. A Torah word with the same number is בוא — “to come, enter” (Genesis 2:19).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 36. A Torah word with the same number is אלה — “these” (Genesis 2:4).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1120.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 44900.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 340. A Torah word with the same number is שם — “there” (Genesis 2:8).
The letters that come out are זג — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 10. A Torah word with the same number is בדד — “alone” (Numbers 23:9).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 640. A Torah word with the same number is שמש — “sun” (Genesis 15:12).
The number 270 appears in the classical books 8 times across 7 works. The earliest mention is פרי עץ חיים שער קריאת שמע שעל המיטה (~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 — 270. 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. ער has 2 letters: ע Ayin, ר Resh. The first letter is Ayin, the last is Resh.
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The name ער appears in the Torah as a word 10 times. The first time is Genesis 38:3. Another 2 times it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
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 ער these are ע and ר. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 6:14:
עשה לך תבת עצי גפר קנים תעשה את התבה וכפרת אתה מבית ומחוץ בכפר
This is from the portion Noach. What it is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham.
The name ער has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 270 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.
