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Jozachar in Hebrew — יוזבד, gematria 29

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The name Jozachar in Hebrew letters is יוזבד. 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.

יוזבד
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is יוזבד. A Tanakh name: an Israelite (first in 2 Kings 12:22; 1 mention in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “God has remembered”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 29 — the same as the Torah word דכה, “crushed”. That number points to Torah page 29 of 354 — in the portion Vayera. What that portion is about: Three visitors at Abraham's tent; the plea for Sodom; the birth of Isaac; the binding of Isaac on Mount Moriah. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 15:18. 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 יוזבד gives 29.
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The number 29 is the Torah word דכה — «crushed» (Deuteronomy 23:2).

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This number is shared with 7 other name(s) out of the 2,980 in the index.

The number 29, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 29 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis).
The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 19:34:
וַיְהִי מִמָּחֳרָת וַתֹּאמֶר הַבְּכִירָה אֶל־הַצְּעִירָה הֵן־שָׁכַבְתִּי אֶמֶשׁ אֶת־אָבִי נַשְׁקֶנּוּ יַיִן גַּם־הַלַּיְלָה וּבֹאִי שִׁכְבִי עִמּוֹ וּנְחַיֶּה מֵאָבִינוּ זָרַע
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the first-born said unto the younger: 'Behold, I lay yesternight with my father. Let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.'
This is from the portion Vayera. What it is about: Three visitors at Abraham's tent; the plea for Sodom; the birth of Isaac; the binding of Isaac on Mount Moriah.
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.
with finals and ordinal — 29. A Torah word with the same number is דכה — “crushed” (Deuteronomy 23:2).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 20. A Torah word with the same number is היה — “to be, become” (Genesis 1:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 117. A Torah word with the same number is אלוף — “chief” (Genesis 36:15).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 205. A Torah word with the same number is הר — “mountain” (Genesis 7:19).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 103. A Torah word with the same number is מנחה — “offering, gift” (Genesis 4:3).
The letters that come out are מפעשק — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 590. A Torah word with the same number is שרץ — “swarming creatures” (Genesis 1:20).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 945.
The number 29 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is שער הכוונות (~1573).
The full message
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 — 29. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
How to write Jozachar in Hebrew

Hebrew is written from right to left. יוזבד has 5 letters: י Yod, ו Vav, ז Zayin, ב Bet, ד Dalet. The first letter is Yod, the last is Dalet.

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The name יוזבד does not stand as a word in the Pentateuch — as with most names, including many Tanakh names from the later books.
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 יוזבד these are י and ד. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Exodus 15:18:
ה׳ ימלך לעלם ועד
This is from the portion Beshalach. What it is about: The parting of the sea and the song of Moses and Miriam; manna and quail; water from the rock; the war with Amalek.

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Your name's day

Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: יוזבד = 29. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.

2027-08-2926 Av 5787in 309 days
The verse of that day

וַיְהִי מִמָּחֳרָת וַתֹּאמֶר הַבְּכִירָה אֶל־הַצְּעִירָה הֵן־שָׁכַבְתִּי אֶמֶשׁ אֶת־אָבִי נַשְׁקֶנּוּ יַיִן גַּם־הַלַּיְלָה וּבֹאִי שִׁכְבִי עִמּוֹ וּנְחַיֶּה מֵאָבִינוּ זָרַע

«And it came to pass on the morrow, that the first-born said unto the younger: 'Behold, I lay yesternight with my father. Let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.'»

Bereshit (Genesis) 19:34 · 29 / 354

Half of all names have such a day.

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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.

Binyamin Pichkhadze, «Chumash 354» (חומש 354), Bnei Brak, 2002 · Addition, not prophecy.

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