The name Rafal in Hebrew letters is רפל. 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.
רפל
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is רפל. Rafał is the Polish form of Raphael, from the Hebrew name Refael, “God has healed”. It is a common male name in Poland, and the Spanish and Italian forms are Rafael and Raffaele. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 310 — the same as the Torah word חשב, “to reckon, think”. That number points to Torah page 310 of 354 — in the portion Eikev. What that portion is about: “Because you will heed”: the land of seven fruits; the blessing after meals; manna as a test; the second paragraph of the Shema. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 39:9. 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 רפל gives 310.
310
The number 310 is the Torah word חשב — «to reckon, think» (Genesis 15:6).
And HaShem delivered unto me the two tables of stone written with the finger of G-d; and on them was written according to all the words, which HaShem spoke with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
This is from the portion Eikev. What it is about: “Because you will heed”: the land of seven fruits; the blessing after meals; manna as a test; the second paragraph of the Shema.
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) — 310. A Torah word with the same number is חשב — “to reckon, think” (Genesis 15:6).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 13. A Torah word with the same number is אחד — “one” (Genesis 1:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 49. A Torah word with the same number is מואב — “Moab, son of Lot” (Genesis 19:37).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1305.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 47300.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 790. A Torah word with the same number is תשיעי — “ninth” (Leviticus 25:22).
The letters that come out are גוכ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 29. A Torah word with the same number is דכה — “crushed” (Deuteronomy 23:2).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 665. A Torah word with the same number is נרתיה — “its lamps” (Exodus 25:37).
The number 310 appears in the classical books 27 times across 16 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 — 310. 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. רפל has 3 letters: ר Resh, פ Pe, ל Lamed. The first letter is Resh, the last is Lamed.
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The name רפל 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 רפל these are ר and ל. The Pentateuch has 3 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 39:9:
רבוע היה כפול עשו את החשן זרת ארכו וזרת רחבו כפול
This is from the portion Pekudei. What it is about: The accounting of the materials; the priestly garments are finished; the Tabernacle is raised on the first of Nisan; the cloud covers it.
A verse whose whole sum equals your name
גד גדוד יגודנו והוא יגד עקב
Genesis 49:19 · 22 letters in the verse
All the letters of this verse add up to 310 — exactly your name's number. The Pentateuch has 5,853 verses, and only 200 of them fall below 1000. Of the 2,980 names in our index, 80 match this way — about one name in thirty-seven.
The name רפל has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 310 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.
