The name Massa in Hebrew letters is משא. 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.
משא
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is משא. A Tanakh name: a son of Ishmael (first in Genesis 25:14; 2 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 341 — the same as the Torah word אשם, “guilt, guilt offering”. That number points to Torah page 341 of 354 — in the portion Ki Tavo. What that portion is about: “When you enter”: the first fruits and the declaration; the stones on Mount Ebal; blessings and admonitions. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 15:11. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
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Adding up the letters of the name משא gives 341.
341
The number 341 is the Torah word אשם — «guilt, guilt offering» (Genesis 26:10).
HaShem will cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies; thou shalt go out one way against them, and shalt flee seven ways before them; and thou shalt be a horror unto all the kingdoms of the earth.
This is from the portion Ki Tavo. What it is about: “When you enter”: the first fruits and the declaration; the stones on Mount Ebal; blessings and admonitions.
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) — 341. A Torah word with the same number is אשם — “guilt, guilt offering” (Genesis 26:10).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 8. A Torah word with the same number is אהב — “to love” (Genesis 22:2).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 35. A Torah word with the same number is גבל — “to set bounds” (Exodus 19:12).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1241.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 91601.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 721. A Torah word with the same number is אשתך — “your wife” (Genesis 3:17).
The letters that come out are יבת — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 412. A Torah word with the same number is בית — “house” (Genesis 6:14).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 551. A Torah word with the same number is מורשה — “possession, heritage” (Exodus 6:8).
The number 341 appears in the classical books 8 times across 7 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 — 341. 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. משא has 3 letters: מ Mem, ש Shin, א Alef. The first letter is Mem, the last is Alef.
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The name משא appears in the Torah as a word 3 times. The first time is Genesis 10:30. Another 4 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 משא these are מ and א. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 15:11:
מי כמכה באלם ה׳ מי כמכה נאדר בקדש נורא תהלת עשה פלא
This is from the portion Beshalach. What it is about: The parting of the sea and the song of Moses and Miriam; manna and quail; water from the rock; the war with Amalek.
«HaShem will cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies; thou shalt go out one way against them, and shalt flee seven ways before them; and thou shalt be a horror unto all the kingdoms of the earth.»
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.
