The name Gatam in Hebrew letters is געתם. 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.
געתם
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is געתם. A Tanakh name: an Edomite (first in Genesis 36:11; 3 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 513 — the same as the Torah word געתם, “Gatam, son of Eliphaz”. That number points to Torah page 159 of 354 — in the portion Vayakhel. What that portion is about: The Sabbath comes before the work on the Sanctuary; the people bring more than enough; Bezalel and the craftsmen build the Tabernacle. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Deuteronomy 1:37. 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 געתם gives 513.
513
The number 513 is the Torah word געתם — «Gatam, son of Eliphaz» (Genesis 36:11).
And he made for it two golden rings under the crown thereof, upon the two ribs thereof, upon the two sides of it, for holders for staves wherewith to bear it.
This is from the portion Vayakhel. What it is about: The Sabbath comes before the work on the Sanctuary; the people bring more than enough; Bezalel and the craftsmen build the Tabernacle.
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) — 1073.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 18. A Torah word with the same number is חי — “living” (Genesis 1:20).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 54. A Torah word with the same number is מטה — “staff, tribe” (Genesis 38:18).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1971.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 166509.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1062.
The letters that come out are רזאי — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 218. A Torah word with the same number is ריח — “smell, aroma” (Genesis 8:21).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 699. A Torah word with the same number is וחפרתה — “and you shall dig” (Deuteronomy 23:14).
The number 513 appears in the classical books 7 times across 7 works. The earliest mention is שער הכוונות (~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 — 513. 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. געתם has 4 letters: ג Gimel, ע Ayin, ת Tav, ם final Mem. The first letter is Gimel, the last is final Mem.
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The name געתם appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Genesis 36:11. Another 1 time 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 געתם these are ג and מ. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Deuteronomy 1:37:
גם בי התאנף ה׳ בגללכם לאמר גם אתה לא תבא שם
This is from the portion Devarim. What it is about: Moses begins his address in the plains of Moab: judges, spies, forty years of wandering, the victories over Sihon and Og.
The name געתם has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 513 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.
