The name Otton in Hebrew letters is אוטון. 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.
אוטון
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אוטון. The name comes from the old Germanic root “aud” (“od”), which means “wealth”. Otto I the Great, crowned emperor in 962, had a name from the same root. This form of the name is used in Germany. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 72 — the same as the Torah word חסד, “kindness, mercy”. That number points to Torah page 72 of 354 — in the portion Miketz. What that portion is about: Pharaoh's dreams of seven cows and seven ears; Joseph rules Egypt; the brothers come for grain; the cup in Benjamin's sack. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 36:27. 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 אוטון gives 72.
72
The number 72 is the Torah word חסד — «kindness, mercy» (Genesis 19:19).
And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up upon one stalk, full and good.
This is from the portion Miketz. What it is about: Pharaoh's dreams of seven cows and seven ears; Joseph rules Egypt; the brothers come for grain; the cup in Benjamin's sack.
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) — 722. A Torah word with the same number is שכבת — “lying, intercourse” (Leviticus 18:20).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 27. A Torah word with the same number is בכה — “to weep” (Genesis 21:16).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 36. A Torah word with the same number is אלה — “these” (Genesis 2:4).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 283. A Torah word with the same number is זכרון — “memorial” (Exodus 12:14).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 2654.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 118. A Torah word with the same number is חיק — “bosom” (Genesis 16:5).
The letters that come out are תפנפט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 619. A Torah word with the same number is אחרית — “end, latter days” (Genesis 49:1).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 660. A Torah word with the same number is מצנפת — “turban” (Exodus 28:4).
The number 72 appears in the classical books 110 times across 51 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 — 72. 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. אוטון has 5 letters: א Alef, ו Vav, ט Tet, ו Vav, ן final Nun. The first letter is Alef, the last is final Nun.
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The name אוטון 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 אוטון these are א and נ. The Pentateuch has 35 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 36:27:
אלה בני אצר בלהן וזעון ועקן
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.
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.
