The name Naphtali in Hebrew letters is נפתלי. 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.
נפתלי
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is נפתלי. From “to wrestle” (Genesis 30:8). Jacob’s sixth son; of him it is said “a hind let loose” (Genesis 49:21). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 570 — the same as the Torah word עשר, “ten”. That number points to Torah page 216 of 354 — in the portion Bechukotai. What that portion is about: “If you walk in My statutes”: blessings for faithfulness and admonitions; vows and valuations; the tithe. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Isaiah 32:9. 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 נפתלי gives 570.
570
The number 570 is the Torah word עשר — «ten» (Genesis 5:8).
And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto HaShem, all that any man giveth of such unto HaShem shall be holy.
This is from the portion Bechukotai. What it is about: “If you walk in My statutes”: blessings for faithfulness and admonitions; vows and valuations; the tithe.
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) — 570. A Torah word with the same number is עשר — “ten” (Genesis 5:8).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 21. A Torah word with the same number is אך — “only, surely” (Genesis 7:23).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 75. A Torah word with the same number is כהן — “priest” (Genesis 14:18).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2255.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 169900.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1840.
The letters that come out are טואכמ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 76. A Torah word with the same number is עבד — “servant” (Genesis 9:25).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 687. A Torah word with the same number is מזמרת — “of the choice produce of” (Genesis 43:11).
The number 570 appears in the classical books 12 times across 7 works. The earliest mention is ספר הפליאה (~1390).
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 — 570. 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. נפתלי has 5 letters: נ Nun, פ Pe, ת Tav, ל Lamed, י Yod. The first letter is Nun, the last is Yod.
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The name נפתלי appears in the Torah as a word 15 times. The first time is Genesis 30:8. Another 5 times it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
The verse of your name
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with נ and ends with י. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 15 such verses. The first of them is Isaiah 32:9:
נשים שאננות קמנה שמענה קולי בנות בטחות האזנה אמרתי
The name נפתלי has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 570 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.
