The name Paul in Hebrew letters is פול. 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.
פול
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is פול. In Hebrew letters the name is spelled like the Tanakh name Pul: an Assyrian king and an Ethiopian tribe (2 Kings 15:19). This is a shared spelling, not the origin of the name. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 116 — the same as the Torah word נוס, “to flee”. That number points to Torah page 116 of 354 — in the portion Beshalach. What that portion is about: The parting of the sea and the song of Moses and Miriam; manna and quail; water from the rock; the war with Amalek. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Psalms 7:3. 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 פול gives 116.
116
The number 116 is the Torah word נוס — «to flee» (Genesis 14:10).
And the Egyptians shall know that I am HaShem, when I have gotten Me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.'
This is from the portion Beshalach. What it is about: The parting of the sea and the song of Moses and Miriam; manna and quail; water from the rock; the war with Amalek.
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) — 116. A Torah word with the same number is נוס — “to flee” (Genesis 14:10).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 17. A Torah word with the same number is טוב — “good” (Genesis 1:4).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 35. A Torah word with the same number is גבל — “to set bounds” (Exodus 19:12).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 531. A Torah word with the same number is נתנאל — “Nethanel, chief of Issachar” (Numbers 1:8).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 7336.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 282. A Torah word with the same number is עברי — “Hebrew” (Genesis 14:13).
The letters that come out are ופכ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 106. A Torah word with the same number is נון — “Nun, father of Joshua” (Exodus 33:11).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 167. A Torah word with the same number is פנואל — “Penuel, place by the Jabbok” (Genesis 32:31).
The number 116 appears in the classical books 20 times across 15 works. The earliest mention is דרושי שער הכוונות (~1573).
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 — 116. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
The name פול has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 116 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.
