The name Porfirio in Hebrew letters is פורפיריו. 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.
פורפיריו
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is פורפיריו. The name comes from Greek “porphyra”, the purple dye and the colour purple. The philosopher Porphyry of Tyre lived in the 3rd century. 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 592 — the same as the Torah word לסבלתיכם, “to your burdens”. That number points to Torah page 238 of 354 — in the portion Behaalotcha. What that portion is about: Lighting the lampstand; the second Passover; the cloud leads the camp; quail and complaints; Miriam and tzaraat. 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.
You wrote “Porfirio” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: פורפיריו. A name from the Tanakh — its Tanakh spelling is used. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
Adding up the letters of the name פורפיריו gives 592.
592
The number 592 is the Torah word לסבלתיכם — «to your burdens» (Exodus 5:4).
But there were certain men, who were unclean by the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.
This is from the portion Behaalotcha. What it is about: Lighting the lampstand; the second Passover; the cloud leads the camp; quail and complaints; Miriam and tzaraat.
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) — 592. A Torah word with the same number is לסבלתיכם — “to your burdens” (Exodus 5:4).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 34. A Torah word with the same number is לבב — “heart” (Genesis 20:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 106. A Torah word with the same number is נון — “Nun, father of Joshua” (Exodus 33:11).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2552.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 93072.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 2948.
The letters that come out are ופגומגמפ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 258. A Torah word with the same number is חרן — “Haran, city in Mesopotamia” (Genesis 11:31).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1246.
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 — 592. 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. פורפיריו has 8 letters: פ Pe, ו Vav, ר Resh, פ Pe, י Yod, ר Resh, י Yod, ו Vav. The first letter is Pe, the last is Vav.
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The name פורפיריו 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 פורפיריו 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.
The name פורפיריו has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 592 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.
