Issachar — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Issachar in Hebrew letters is יששכר. 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.
יששכר
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is יששכר. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 830 — the same as the Torah word יששכר, “Jissaskar, a son of Jacob”. That number points to Torah page 122 of 354 — in the portion Yitro. What that portion is about: Jethro's counsel on judges; standing at Sinai; the Ten Utterances; “you shall not make yourself an idol”. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 49:17. 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 יששכר gives 830.
830
The number 830 is the Torah word יששכר — «Jissaskar, a son of Jacob» (Genesis 30:18).
The number 830, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 122 in the book of Shmot (Exodus). These are its opening words:
אשת משה אחר שלוחיה ואת שני בניה אשר …
The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 18:2:
וַיִּקַּח יִתְרוֹ חֹתֵן מֹשֶׁה אֶת־צִפֹּרָה אֵשֶׁת מֹשֶׁה אַחַר שִׁלּוּחֶיהָ
And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,
This is from the portion Yitro. What it is about: Jethro's counsel on judges; standing at Sinai; the Ten Utterances; “you shall not make yourself an idol”.
The same number, 830, is given by these biblical names:
יששכר
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) — 830. A Torah word with the same number is יששכר — “Jissaskar, a son of Jacob” (Genesis 30:18).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 11. A Torah word with the same number is חג — “a festival, or a victim therefor” (Exodus 10:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 83. A Torah word with the same number is חלילה — “literal fora profaned thing” (Genesis 18:25).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 3115.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 220500.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 2390.
The word that comes out is מבבלג. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 77. A Torah word with the same number is עז — “a she-goat” (Genesis 15:9).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1350.
The number 830 appears in the classical books 3 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
The full message
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The name יששכר appears in the Torah as a word 14 times. The first time is Genesis 30:18. Another 4 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 יששכר these are י and ר. The Pentateuch has 4 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 49:17:
יהי דן נחש עלי דרך שפיפן עלי ארח הנשך עקבי סוס ויפל רכבו אחור
This is from the portion Vayechi. What it is about: Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh and all his sons; Jacob's death and burial in Hebron; Joseph's death.
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) — 830. A Torah word with the same number is יששכר — “Jissaskar, a son of Jacob” (Genesis 30:18).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 11. A Torah word with the same number is חג — “a festival, or a victim therefor” (Exodus 10:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 83. A Torah word with the same number is חלילה — “literal fora profaned thing” (Genesis 18:25).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 3115.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 220500.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 2390.
The word that comes out is מבבלג. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 77. A Torah word with the same number is עז — “a she-goat” (Genesis 15:9).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1350.
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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