Manasseh — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Manasseh in Hebrew letters is מנשה. 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.
מנשה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מנשה. “Causing to forget” (Genesis 41:51). Joseph’s elder son. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 395 — the same as the Torah word מנשה, “Menashsheh, a grandson of Jacob, also the tribe…”. That number points to Torah page 41 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 Genesis 7:8. 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 מנשה gives 395.
395
The number 395 is the Torah word מנשה — «Menashsheh, a grandson of Jacob, also the tribe…» (Genesis 41:51).
The number 395, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 41 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis). These are its opening words:
פלשתים גררה וירא אליו יהוה ויאמר אל תרד …
The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 26:1:
וַיְהִי רָעָב בָּאָרֶץ מִלְּבַד הָרָעָב הָרִאשׁוֹן אֲשֶׁר הָיָה בִּימֵי אַבְרָהָם וַיֵּלֶךְ יִצְחָק אֶל־אֲבִימֶּלֶךְ מֶלֶךְ־פְּלִשְׁתִּים גְּרָרָה
And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
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, 395, is given by these biblical names:
מנשה · ישעיה · חשופא · ישפה
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) — 395. A Torah word with the same number is מנשה — “Menashsheh, a grandson of Jacob, also the tribe…” (Genesis 41:51).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 17. A Torah word with the same number is טוב — “good” (Genesis 1:4).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 53. A Torah word with the same number is אבן — “a stone” (Genesis 2:12).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1450.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 94125.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 915.
The word that comes out is יטבצ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 111. A Torah word with the same number is אלף — “hence” (Genesis 20:16).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 552.
The number 395 appears in the classical books 10 times across 9 works. The earliest mention is דרושי שער הכוונות (~1573).
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The name מנשה appears in the Torah as a word 31 times. The first time is Genesis 41:51. Another 5 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 מנשה these are מ and ה. The Pentateuch has 16 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 7:8:
מן הבהמה הטהורה ומן הבהמה אשר איננה טהרה ומן העוף וכל אשר רמש על האדמה
This is from the portion Noach. What it is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham.
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) — 395. A Torah word with the same number is מנשה — “Menashsheh, a grandson of Jacob, also the tribe…” (Genesis 41:51).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 17. A Torah word with the same number is טוב — “good” (Genesis 1:4).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 53. A Torah word with the same number is אבן — “a stone” (Genesis 2:12).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1450.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 94125.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 915.
The word that comes out is יטבצ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 111. A Torah word with the same number is אלף — “hence” (Genesis 20:16).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 552.
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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