The name Erikh in Hebrew letters is אריח. 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.
אריח
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אריח. The name Erikh probably comes from Old Norse ei + ríkr, “always and ruler”. In German it is written Erich. The German writer Erich Maria Remarque lived from 1898 to 1970. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 219 — the same as the Torah word טהרה, “purification”. That number points to Torah page 219 of 354 — in the portion Bamidbar. What that portion is about: The census in the desert: 603,550 men; the order of the camps around the Tabernacle; the Levites and their service. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 6:9. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Erikh” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: אריח. 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 אריח gives 219.
219
The number 219 is the Torah word טהרה — «purification» (Leviticus 12:4).
Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
This is from the portion Bamidbar. What it is about: The census in the desert: 603,550 men; the order of the camps around the Tabernacle; the Levites and their service.
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) — 219. A Torah word with the same number is טהרה — “purification” (Leviticus 12:4).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 12. A Torah word with the same number is הוא — “he, it” (Genesis 2:11).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 39. A Torah word with the same number is גאלה — “redemption” (Leviticus 25:24).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 887.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 40165.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 632. A Torah word with the same number is בכרתי — “my birthright” (Genesis 27:36).
The letters that come out are תגמס — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 503. A Torah word with the same number is גרש — “to drive out” (Genesis 3:24).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1059.
The number 219 appears in the classical books 1 time across 1 work. The earliest mention is ציצים ופרחים (יעב"ץ) (~1750).
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 — 219. 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. אריח has 4 letters: א Alef, ר Resh, י Yod, ח Chet. The first letter is Alef, the last is Chet.
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The name אריח appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Leviticus 26:31.
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 אריח these are א and ח. The Pentateuch has 4 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 6:9:
אלה תולדת נח נח איש צדיק תמים היה בדרתיו את האלהים התהלך נח
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.
«Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;»
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.
