The name Max in Hebrew letters is מקס. 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.
מקס
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מקס. A short form of Maximilian or Maxim, from the Latin word maximus, meaning “the greatest”. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 200 — the same as the Torah word כנעני, “Canaanite”. That number points to Torah page 200 of 354 — in the portion Kedoshim. What that portion is about: “You shall be holy”: the corner of the field for the poor, honest scales, “love your neighbor as yourself”; honoring the elderly. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Psalms 76:7. 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 מקס gives 200.
200
The number 200 is the Torah word כנעני — «Canaanite» (Genesis 10:18).
But in the fifth year may ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you more richly the increase thereof: I am HaShem your G-d.
This is from the portion Kedoshim. What it is about: “You shall be holy”: the corner of the field for the poor, honest scales, “love your neighbor as yourself”; honoring the elderly.
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) — 200. A Torah word with the same number is כנעני — “Canaanite” (Genesis 10:18).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 11. A Torah word with the same number is חג — “festival” (Exodus 10:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 47. A Torah word with the same number is אולי — “perhaps” (Genesis 16:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 995.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 15200.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 380. A Torah word with the same number is מצרים — “Mizraim, Egypt” (Genesis 10:6).
The letters that come out are ידח — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 22. A Torah word with the same number is יחד — “together” (Genesis 13:6).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 386. A Torah word with the same number is לשון — “tongue, language” (Genesis 10:5).
The number 200 appears in the classical books 14 times across 10 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
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 — 200. 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. מקס has 3 letters: מ Mem, ק Qof, ס Samekh. The first letter is Mem, the last is Samekh.
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The name מקס 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
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with מ and ends with ס. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 4 such verses. The first of them is Psalms 76:7:
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.
