The name Paulino in Hebrew letters is פאולינו. 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.
פאולינו
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is פאולינו. The name comes from Latin “paulus”, which means “small”. It spread across Europe thanks to the apostle Paul, a first-century Christian preacher. This form of the name is used in Spain and Latin America. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 183. That number points to Torah page 183 of 354 — in the portion Shmini. What that portion is about: The eighth day: Aaron's first service; fire from heaven; the death of Nadab and Abihu; clean and unclean animals. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 34:15. 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 פאולינו gives 183.
These are they which are unclean to you among all that swarm; whosoever doth touch them, when they are dead, shall be unclean until the even.
This is from the portion Shmini. What it is about: The eighth day: Aaron's first service; fire from heaven; the death of Nadab and Abihu; clean and unclean animals.
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) — 183.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 30. A Torah word with the same number is כי — “for, because, that” (Genesis 1:4).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 66. A Torah word with the same number is כמו — “like, as” (Genesis 19:15).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 803. A Torah word with the same number is באתת — “with the banners” (Numbers 2:2).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 9973.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 852. A Torah word with the same number is בתכלת — “in blue” (Exodus 35:35).
The letters that come out are ותפכמטפ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 635. A Torah word with the same number is שלשה — “three” (Genesis 6:10).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 416. A Torah word with the same number is ישימון — “wasteland, desert” (Numbers 21:20).
The number 183 appears in the classical books 4 times across 4 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
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 — 183. 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. פאולינו has 7 letters: פ Pe, א Alef, ו Vav, ל Lamed, י Yod, נ Nun, ו Vav. The first letter is Pe, the last is Vav.
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The name פאולינו 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 פאולינו these are פ and ו. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Exodus 34:15:
פן תכרת ברית ליושב הארץ וזנו אחרי אלהיהם וזבחו לאלהיהם וקרא לך ואכלת מזבחו
This is from the portion Ki Tisa. What it is about: The half-shekel for the census; the golden calf and the broken tablets; the thirteen attributes of mercy; the second tablets.
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: פאולינו = 183. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
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.
