Maxim — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Maxim in Hebrew letters is מקסים. 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.
מקסים
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מקסים. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 250. That number points to Torah page 250 of 354 — in the portion Shlach. What that portion is about: The twelve spies; forty years for forty days; challah and tzitzit. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 10:5. 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 מקסים gives 250.
250
The number 250, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 250 in the book of Bamidbar (Numbers). These are its opening words:
בני ישראל ונסלח להם כי שגגה הוא והם …
The verse this place falls on is Bamidbar (Numbers) 15:25:
וְכִפֶּר הַכֹּהֵן עַל־כָּל־עֲדַת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וְנִסְלַח לָהֶם כִּי־שְׁגָגָה הִוא וְהֵם הֵבִיאוּ אֶת־קָרְבָּנָם אִשֶּׁה לַה׳ וְחַטָּאתָם לִפְנֵי ה׳ עַל־שִׁגְגָתָם
And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire unto HaShem, and their sin-offering before HaShem, for their error.
This is from the portion Shlach. What it is about: The twelve spies; forty years for forty days; challah and tzitzit.
The same number, 250, is given by these biblical names:
נר · ירם · מבחר · מרי
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) — 810. A Torah word with the same number is יתת — “Jetheth, an Edomite” (Genesis 36:40).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 16. A Torah word with the same number is אחז — “to seize” (Genesis 22:13).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 70. A Torah word with the same number is כן — “set upright” (Genesis 1:7).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1195.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 16900.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 840.
The word that comes out is ידחמי. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 72. A Torah word with the same number is חסד — “kindness” (Genesis 19:19).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 486. A Torah word with the same number is סכות — “Succoth, the name of a place in Egypt and of…” (Genesis 33:17).
The number 250 appears in the classical books 14 times across 12 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
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 מקסים 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 מקסים these are מ and מ. The Pentateuch has 14 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 10:5:
מאלה נפרדו איי הגוים בארצתם איש ללשנו למשפחתם בגויהם
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.
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) — 810. A Torah word with the same number is יתת — “Jetheth, an Edomite” (Genesis 36:40).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 16. A Torah word with the same number is אחז — “to seize” (Genesis 22:13).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 70. A Torah word with the same number is כן — “set upright” (Genesis 1:7).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1195.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 16900.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 840.
The word that comes out is ידחמי. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 72. A Torah word with the same number is חסד — “kindness” (Genesis 19:19).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 486. A Torah word with the same number is סכות — “Succoth, the name of a place in Egypt and of…” (Genesis 33:17).
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 250
Other names
Maria · Marina · Marta · Mason · Mateus · Matthew · Maya · Meir · Mendel · Mia · Micah · Michael · All names
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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