The name Paskhaliy in Hebrew letters is פסחליי. 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.
פסחליי
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is פסחליי. The name comes from late Latin “Paschalis”, “of Pascha”, a word that goes back to the Hebrew “Pesach”. Two popes of the Middle Ages bore the name Paschal. This form of the name is used in Russia. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 198 — the same as the Torah word צחק, “to laugh”. That number points to Torah page 198 of 354 — in the portion Achrei Mot. What that portion is about: The service of Yom Kippur: two goats, the lot, the Holy of Holies; the prohibition of blood; the laws of forbidden unions. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Numbers 25:11. 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 פסחליי gives 198.
198
The number 198 is the Torah word צחק — «to laugh» (Genesis 17:17).
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; thou shalt not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness: they are near kinswomen; it is lewdness.
This is from the portion Achrei Mot. What it is about: The service of Yom Kippur: two goats, the lot, the Holy of Holies; the prohibition of blood; the laws of forbidden unions.
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) — 198. A Torah word with the same number is צחק — “to laugh” (Genesis 17:17).
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) — 72. A Torah word with the same number is חסד — “kindness, mercy” (Genesis 19:19).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 911. A Torah word with the same number is ראשית — “beginning, first fruits” (Genesis 1:1).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 11164.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 932.
The letters that come out are וחסכממ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 174. A Torah word with the same number is עקד — “striped” (Genesis 30:35).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 733. A Torah word with the same number is בארצתם — “in their lands” (Genesis 10:5).
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 — 198. 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. פסחליי has 6 letters: פ Pe, ס Samekh, ח Chet, ל Lamed, י Yod, י Yod. The first letter is Pe, the last is Yod.
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The name פסחליי 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 פסחליי these are פ and י. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Numbers 25:11:
פינחס בן אלעזר בן אהרן הכהן השיב את חמתי מעל בני ישראל בקנאו את קנאתי בתוכם ולא כליתי את בני ישראל בקנאתי
This is from the portion Pinchas. What it is about: The covenant of peace with Phinehas; the second census; the daughters of Zelophehad and inheritance; Joshua the successor; the festival offerings.
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: פסחליי = 198. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
«Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; thou shalt not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness: they are near kinswomen; it is lewdness.»
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.
