The name Matti in Hebrew letters is מטי. 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.
מטי
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מטי. The name Matti comes from Hebrew: its root, the word Matityahu, means “gift of God”. It is a boy's name that is found mostly in Finland. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 59. That number points to Torah page 59 of 354 — in the portion Vayishlach. What that portion is about: Wrestling with the angel and the name Israel; the meeting with Esau; Dinah in Shechem; the birth of Benjamin and Rachel's death. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 22:28. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Matti” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: מטי. 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.
then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
This is from the portion Vayishlach. What it is about: Wrestling with the angel and the name Israel; the meeting with Esau; Dinah in Shechem; the birth of Benjamin and Rachel's death.
The same number, 59, is given by these Tanakh names:
Dana דנה
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) — 59.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 14. A Torah word with the same number is יד — “hand” (Genesis 3:22).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 32. A Torah word with the same number is לב — “heart” (Genesis 6:5).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 245. A Torah word with the same number is מהר — “to hasten” (Genesis 18:6).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 1781.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 148. A Torah word with the same number is פסח — “Passover” (Exodus 12:11).
The letters that come out are ינמ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 100. A Torah word with the same number is על — “on, over” (Genesis 1:2).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 519. A Torah word with the same number is גשורי — “Geshurite” (Deuteronomy 3:14).
The number 59 appears in the classical books 4 times across 4 works. The earliest mention is מגלה צפונות (~1700).
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 — 59. 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. מטי has 3 letters: מ Mem, ט Tet, י Yod. The first letter is Mem, the last is Yod.
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The name מטי 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 מטי these are מ and י. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 22:28:
מלאתך ודמעך לא תאחר בכור בניך תתן לי
This is from the portion Mishpatim. What it is about: Laws of the servant, damages, theft and pledges; “an eye for an eye” as compensation; the sabbatical year; “we will do and we will hear”.
The name מטי has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 59 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.
