Mason — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Mason in Hebrew letters is מייסון. 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.
מייסון
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מייסון. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 176 — the same as the Torah word פוץ, “to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively”. That number points to Torah page 176 of 354 — in the portion Tzav. What that portion is about: The fire on the altar is never to go out; the priests' portion; the seven days of consecration of Aaron and his sons. 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 מייסון gives 176.
176
The number 176 is the Torah word פוץ — «to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively» (Genesis 10:18).
The number 176, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 176 in the book of Vayikra (Leviticus). These are its opening words:
אתם מאת בני ישראל חקת עולם לדרתם זאת …
The verse this place falls on is Vayikra (Leviticus) 7:36:
אֲשֶׁר צִוָּה ה׳ לָתֵת לָהֶם בְּיוֹם מָשְׁחוֹ אֹתָם מֵאֵת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל חֻקַּת עוֹלָם לְדֹרֹתָם
which HaShem commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that they were anointed. It is a due for ever throughout their generations.
This is from the portion Tzav. What it is about: The fire on the altar is never to go out; the priests' portion; the seven days of consecration of Aaron and his sons.
The same number, 176, is given by these biblical names:
עמינדב · עמוס · יויקים · צוף
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) — 826.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 23.
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 68. A Torah word with the same number is חלל — “to bore, i.e.” (Genesis 4:26).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 726. A Torah word with the same number is קדשברנע — “Kadesh-Barnea, a place in the Desert” (Numbers 32:8).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 7936.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 572. A Torah word with the same number is ברשע — “Birsha, a king of Gomorrah” (Genesis 14:2).
The word that comes out is יממחפט. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 187. A Torah word with the same number is מספוא — “fodder” (Genesis 24:25).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 358. A Torah word with the same number is חשן — “perhaps a pocket” (Exodus 25:7).
The number 176 appears in the classical books 8 times across 5 works. The earliest mention is עץ חיים (~1573).
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 מייסון 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 מייסון 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) — 826.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 23.
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 68. A Torah word with the same number is חלל — “to bore, i.e.” (Genesis 4:26).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 726. A Torah word with the same number is קדשברנע — “Kadesh-Barnea, a place in the Desert” (Numbers 32:8).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 7936.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 572. A Torah word with the same number is ברשע — “Birsha, a king of Gomorrah” (Genesis 14:2).
The word that comes out is יממחפט. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 187. A Torah word with the same number is מספוא — “fodder” (Genesis 24:25).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 358. A Torah word with the same number is חשן — “perhaps a pocket” (Exodus 25:7).
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 176
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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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