Gershon — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Gershon in Hebrew letters is גרשון. 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.
גרשון
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is גרשון. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 559 — the same as the Torah word גרשון, “Gereshon or Gereshom, an Israelite”. That number points to Torah page 205 of 354 — in the portion Emor. What that portion is about: Laws of the priests; animals without blemish; the calendar of festivals — from the Sabbath to Sukkot; the lamp and the showbread. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Deuteronomy 28:50. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. There are no predictions or judgments here — only the text of the Torah and arithmetic you can check.
Adding up the letters of the name גרשון gives 559.
559
The number 559 is the Torah word גרשון — «Gereshon or Gereshom, an Israelite» (Genesis 46:11).
The number 559, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 205 in the book of Vayikra (Leviticus). These are its opening words:
או ילפת לא תקריבו אלה ליהוה ואשה לא …
The verse this place falls on is Vayikra (Leviticus) 22:22:
עַוֶּרֶת אוֹ שָׁבוּר אוֹ־חָרוּץ אוֹ־יַבֶּלֶת אוֹ גָרָב אוֹ יַלֶּפֶת לֹא־תַקְרִיבוּ אֵלֶּה לַה׳ וְאִשֶּׁה לֹא־תִתְּנוּ מֵהֶם עַל־הַמִּזְבֵּחַ לַה׳
Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scabbed, or scurvy, ye shall not offer these unto HaShem, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto HaShem.
This is from the portion Emor. What it is about: Laws of the priests; animals without blemish; the calendar of festivals — from the Sabbath to Sukkot; the lamp and the showbread.
The same number, 559, is given by these biblical names:
גרשון
Nine 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) — 1209.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 19. A Torah word with the same number is גוי — “a foreign nation” (Genesis 10:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 64. A Torah word with the same number is נטה — “to stretch or spread out” (Genesis 12:8).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2112.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 132545.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1777.
The word that comes out is רגבפט. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 294. A Torah word with the same number is ארגמן — “purple” (Exodus 25:4).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1071.
The number 559 appears in the classical books 3 times across 3 works. The earliest mention is ציצים ופרחים (יעב"ץ) (~1750).
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The name גרשון appears in the Torah as a word 11 times. The first time is Genesis 46:11. 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 גרשון these are ג and נ. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Deuteronomy 28:50:
גוי עז פנים אשר לא ישא פנים לזקן ונער לא יחן
This is from the portion Ki Tavo. What it is about: “When you enter”: the first fruits and the declaration; the stones on Mount Ebal; blessings and admonitions.
Nine 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) — 1209.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 19. A Torah word with the same number is גוי — “a foreign nation” (Genesis 10:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 64. A Torah word with the same number is נטה — “to stretch or spread out” (Genesis 12:8).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2112.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 132545.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1777.
The word that comes out is רגבפט. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 294. A Torah word with the same number is ארגמן — “purple” (Exodus 25:4).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1071.
Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.
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How it is counted
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.
Биньямин Пичхадзе, «Хумаш 354» (חומש 354), Бней-Брак, 2002 / התשס״ג · A calculation, not a prediction.
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