The name Masaru in Hebrew letters is מסרו. 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.
מסרו
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מסרו. Masaru is a name of Japanese origin, from “masaru”, which means “to excel”. Masaru Ibuka was one of the two founders of the Japanese company Sony. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 306 — the same as the Torah word אשה, “woman, wife”. That number points to Torah page 306 of 354 — in the portion Vaetchanan. What that portion is about: Moses pleads to enter the land; the Ten Utterances repeated; “Hear, O Israel”; the warning against forgetting. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 7:2. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Masaru” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: מסרו. A name from the Tanakh — its Tanakh spelling is used. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
Adding up the letters of the name מסרו gives 306.
306
The number 306 is the Torah word אשה — «woman, wife» (Genesis 2:22).
When HaShem thy G-d shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
This is from the portion Vaetchanan. What it is about: Moses pleads to enter the land; the Ten Utterances repeated; “Hear, O Israel”; the warning against forgetting.
Other 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) — 306. A Torah word with the same number is אשה — “woman, wife” (Genesis 2:22).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 18. A Torah word with the same number is חי — “living” (Genesis 1:20).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 54. A Torah word with the same number is מטה — “staff, tribe” (Genesis 38:18).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1216.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 45236.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 746. A Torah word with the same number is שמות — “names” (Genesis 2:20).
The letters that come out are יחגפ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 101. A Torah word with the same number is יצא — “to go out” (Genesis 1:12).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 722. A Torah word with the same number is שכבת — “lying, intercourse” (Leviticus 18:20).
The number 306 appears in the classical books 26 times across 11 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
Every letter of the name explained, the words and namesakes with references, the Hebrew date, the letter and tribe of the month, day 861 of your life (±1), the psalm by age, the attestations from the classical books — a PDF sent to your email.
The number of the day, every morning
Every date has a number too. Once a year it will match the number of your name — 306. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
Hebrew is written from right to left. מסרו has 4 letters: מ Mem, ס Samekh, ר Resh, ו Vav. The first letter is Mem, the last is Vav.
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The name מסרו 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 מסרו these are מ and ו. The Pentateuch has 5 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 7:2:
מכל הבהמה הטהורה תקח לך שבעה שבעה איש ואשתו ומן הבהמה אשר לא טהרה הוא שנים איש ואשתו
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.
The name מסרו has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 306 is not among them. Half of all names are like this — neither good nor bad, just a fact of counting.
Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.
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.
