Malachi — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Malachi in Hebrew letters is מלאכי. 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.
מלאכי
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מלאכי. “My messenger.” The last of the prophets of the Tanakh; his book closes the Prophets. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 101 — the same as the Torah word יצא, “to go”. That number points to Torah page 101 of 354 — in the portion Vaera. What that portion is about: “And I appeared”: the promise of redemption in four expressions; the first seven plagues, from blood to hail. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 22:28. 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 מלאכי gives 101.
101
The number 101 is the Torah word יצא — «to go» (Genesis 1:12).
The number 101, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 101 in the book of Shmot (Exodus). These are its opening words:
להם הוציאו את בני ישראל מארץ מצרים על …
The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 6:26:
הוּא אַהֲרֹן וּמֹשֶׁה אֲשֶׁר אָמַר ה׳ לָהֶם הוֹצִיאוּ אֶת־בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם עַל־צִבְאֹתָם
These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom HaShem said: 'Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their hosts.'
This is from the portion Vaera. What it is about: “And I appeared”: the promise of redemption in four expressions; the first seven plagues, from blood to hail.
The same number, 101, is given by these biblical names:
מיכאל · המון · יהויכן · יכוניה
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) — 101. A Torah word with the same number is יצא — “to go” (Genesis 1:12).
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) — 47. A Torah word with the same number is אולי — “if not” (Genesis 16:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 381. A Torah word with the same number is שמאלי — “situated on the left side” (Leviticus 14:15).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 3001.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 373. A Torah word with the same number is שגע — “to rave through insanity” (Deuteronomy 28:34).
The word that comes out is יכתלמ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 500. A Torah word with the same number is נתן — “to give, used with greatest latitude of…” (Genesis 1:17).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 385. A Torah word with the same number is שפה — “the lip” (Genesis 11:1).
The number 101 appears in the classical books 19 times across 12 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
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The name מלאכי appears in the Torah as a word 4 times. The first time is Genesis 28:12.
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 מלאכי these are מ and י. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 22:28:
מלאתך ודמעך לא תאחר בכור בניך תתן לי
This is from the portion Mishpatim. What it is about: Laws of the servant, damages, theft and pledges; “an eye for an eye” as compensation; the sabbatical year; “we will do and we will hear”.
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) — 101. A Torah word with the same number is יצא — “to go” (Genesis 1:12).
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) — 47. A Torah word with the same number is אולי — “if not” (Genesis 16:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 381. A Torah word with the same number is שמאלי — “situated on the left side” (Leviticus 14:15).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 3001.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 373. A Torah word with the same number is שגע — “to rave through insanity” (Deuteronomy 28:34).
The word that comes out is יכתלמ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 500. A Torah word with the same number is נתן — “to give, used with greatest latitude of…” (Genesis 1:17).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 385. A Torah word with the same number is שפה — “the lip” (Genesis 11:1).
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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