Maayan — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Maayan in Hebrew letters is מעיין. 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.
מעיין
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מעיין. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 180 — the same as the Torah word פנים, “the face”. That number points to Torah page 180 of 354 — in the portion Shmini. What that portion is about: The eighth day: Aaron's first service; fire from heaven; the death of Nadab and Abihu; clean and unclean animals. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Numbers 1:3. 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 מעיין gives 180.
180
The number 180 is the Torah word פנים — «the face» (Genesis 1:2).
Isaac's hundred and eighty years (Genesis 35:28).
The number 180, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 180 in the book of Vayikra (Leviticus). These are its opening words:
ויפלו על פניהם ויקחו בני אהרן נדב ואביהוא …
The verse this place falls on is Vayikra (Leviticus) 9:24:
וַתֵּצֵא אֵשׁ מִלִּפְנֵי ה׳ וַתֹּאכַל עַל־הַמִּזְבֵּחַ אֶת־הָעֹלָה וְאֶת־הַחֲלָבִים וַיַּרְא כָּל־הָעָם וַיָּרֹנּוּ וַיִּפְּלוּ עַל־פְּנֵיהֶם
And there came forth fire from before HaShem, and consumed upon the altar the burnt-offering and the fat; and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
This is from the portion Shmini. What it is about: The eighth day: Aaron's first service; fire from heaven; the death of Nadab and Abihu; clean and unclean animals.
The same number, 180, is given by these biblical names:
עינן · עפל · עינים · ענני
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) — 18. A Torah word with the same number is חי — “alive” (Genesis 1:20).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 63. A Torah word with the same number is חנה — “to incline” (Genesis 26:17).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 775.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 9200.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 580. A Torah word with the same number is שעיר — “shaggy” (Genesis 27:11).
The word that comes out is יזממט. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 106. A Torah word with the same number is נון — “Nun or Non, the father of Joshua” (Exodus 33:11).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 356. A Torah word with the same number is פעור — “Peor, a mountain East of Jordan” (Numbers 23:28).
The number 180 appears in the classical books 20 times across 11 works. The earliest mention is מדרש לפירושים (~1450?).
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, the day 861 of your life, the psalm by age, the attestations from 834 works — a PDF built the moment you pay.
The name מעיין 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 מעיין these are מ and נ. The Pentateuch has 4 such verses. The first of them is Numbers 1:3:
מבן עשרים שנה ומעלה כל יצא צבא בישראל תפקדו אתם לצבאתם אתה ואהרן
This is from the portion Bamidbar. What it is about: The census in the desert: 603,550 men; the order of the camps around the Tabernacle; the Levites and their service.
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) — 18. A Torah word with the same number is חי — “alive” (Genesis 1:20).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 63. A Torah word with the same number is חנה — “to incline” (Genesis 26:17).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 775.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 9200.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 580. A Torah word with the same number is שעיר — “shaggy” (Genesis 27:11).
The word that comes out is יזממט. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 106. A Torah word with the same number is נון — “Nun or Non, the father of Joshua” (Exodus 33:11).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 356. A Torah word with the same number is פעור — “Peor, a mountain East of Jordan” (Numbers 23:28).
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 180
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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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