Marta — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Marta in Hebrew letters is מרתה. 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.
מרתה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מרתה. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 645 — the same as the Torah word רתמה, “Rithmah, a place in the Desert”. That number points to Torah page 291 of 354 — in the portion Masei. What that portion is about: The forty-two journeys through the desert; the borders of the land; the Levite cities and the cities of refuge. 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 מרתה gives 645.
645
The number 645 is the Torah word רתמה — «Rithmah, a place in the Desert» (Numbers 33:18).
The number 645, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 291 in the book of Bamidbar (Numbers). These are its opening words:
ידבקו מטות בני ישראל כאשר צוה יהוה את …
The verse this place falls on is Bamidbar (Numbers) 36:9:
וְלֹא־תִסֹּב נַחֲלָה מִמַּטֶּה לְמַטֶּה אַחֵר כִּי־אִישׁ בְּנַחֲלָתוֹ יִדְבְּקוּ מַטּוֹת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל
So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave each one to its own inheritance.'
This is from the portion Masei. What it is about: The forty-two journeys through the desert; the borders of the land; the Levite cities and the cities of refuge.
The same number, 645, is given by these biblical names:
משרקה · רתמה · שלשיה · תרמה
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) — 645. A Torah word with the same number is רתמה — “Rithmah, a place in the Desert” (Numbers 33:18).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 15. A Torah word with the same number is זוב — “to flow freely” (Exodus 3:8).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 60. A Torah word with the same number is ילך — “to walk” (Genesis 3:14).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2450.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 201625.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1565.
The word that comes out is יגאצ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 104. A Torah word with the same number is חוץ — “separate by awall, i.e. outside, outdoors” (Genesis 6:14).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1002.
The number 645 appears in the classical books 1 time across 1 work. The earliest mention is ציצים ופרחים (יעב"ץ) (~1750).
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 מרתה appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Exodus 15:23.
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 מרתה 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) — 645. A Torah word with the same number is רתמה — “Rithmah, a place in the Desert” (Numbers 33:18).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 15. A Torah word with the same number is זוב — “to flow freely” (Exodus 3:8).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 60. A Torah word with the same number is ילך — “to walk” (Genesis 3:14).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2450.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 201625.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1565.
The word that comes out is יגאצ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 104. A Torah word with the same number is חוץ — “separate by awall, i.e. outside, outdoors” (Genesis 6:14).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1002.
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 291
Other names
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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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