Levi — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Levi in Hebrew letters is לוי. 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.
לוי
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is לוי. “Joined” (Genesis 29:34). Jacob’s third son, ancestor of the tribe of priests and Levites. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 46 — the same as the Torah word מאה, “a hundred”. That number points to Torah page 46 of 354 — in the portion Toldot. What that portion is about: The birth of Esau and Jacob; the birthright sold for lentil stew; Isaac's wells; Jacob receives the blessing. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 20:3. 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 לוי gives 46.
46
The number 46 is the Torah word מאה — «a hundred» (Genesis 5:3).
The number 46, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 46 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis). These are its opening words:
אברהם לך ולזרעך אתך לרשתך את ארץ מגריך …
The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 28:4:
וְיִתֶּן־לְךָ אֶת־בִּרְכַּת אַבְרָהָם לְךָ וּלְזַרְעֲךָ אִתָּךְ לְרִשְׁתְּךָ אֶת־אֶרֶץ מְגֻרֶיךָ אֲשֶׁר־נָתַן אֱלֹהִים לְאַבְרָהָם
and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land of thy sojournings, which G-d gave unto Abraham.'
This is from the portion Toldot. What it is about: The birth of Esau and Jacob; the birthright sold for lentil stew; Isaac's wells; Jacob receives the blessing.
The same number, 46, is given by these biblical names:
לוי · חזאל · אליה · חגלה
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) — 46. A Torah word with the same number is מאה — “a hundred” (Genesis 5:3).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 10. A Torah word with the same number is בדד — “separate” (Numbers 23:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 28. A Torah word with the same number is כח — “vigor, literally” (Genesis 4:12).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 181. A Torah word with the same number is אליסף — “Eljasaph, the name of two Israelites” (Numbers 1:14).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 1036. A Torah word with the same number is כריתות — “a cutting” (Deuteronomy 24:1).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 112. A Torah word with the same number is יבק — “Jabbok, a river east of the Jordan” (Genesis 32:23).
The word that comes out is כפמ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 140. A Torah word with the same number is מעל — “the upper part, used only adverbially with…” (Genesis 6:16).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 106. A Torah word with the same number is נון — “Nun or Non, the father of Joshua” (Exodus 33:11).
The number 46 appears in the classical books 15 times across 11 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
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The name לוי appears in the Torah as a word 28 times. The first time is Genesis 29:34. Another 25 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 לוי these are ל and י. The Pentateuch has 26 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 20:3:
לא יהיה לך אלהים אחרים על פני
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”.
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) — 46. A Torah word with the same number is מאה — “a hundred” (Genesis 5:3).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 10. A Torah word with the same number is בדד — “separate” (Numbers 23:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 28. A Torah word with the same number is כח — “vigor, literally” (Genesis 4:12).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 181. A Torah word with the same number is אליסף — “Eljasaph, the name of two Israelites” (Numbers 1:14).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 1036. A Torah word with the same number is כריתות — “a cutting” (Deuteronomy 24:1).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 112. A Torah word with the same number is יבק — “Jabbok, a river east of the Jordan” (Genesis 32:23).
The word that comes out is כפמ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 140. A Torah word with the same number is מעל — “the upper part, used only adverbially with…” (Genesis 6:16).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 106. A Torah word with the same number is נון — “Nun or Non, the father of Joshua” (Exodus 33:11).
Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.
Compute with a date of birth The whole Torah page 46
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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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