The name Ravi in Hebrew letters is רבי. 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.
רבי
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is רבי. Ravi is an Indian name from the Sanskrit word ravi, “sun”. The musician Ravi Shankar (1920–2012) made the sitar, an Indian string instrument, known around the world. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 212 — the same as the Torah word ריב, “quarrel, dispute”. That number points to Torah page 212 of 354 — in the portion Behar. What that portion is about: “On the mountain”: the sabbatical year and the jubilee; the land is not sold forever; redemption of land and servants; the ban on interest. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 16:29. 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 רבי gives 212.
212
The number 212 is the Torah word ריב — «quarrel, dispute» (Genesis 26:20).
And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou mayest have: of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
This is from the portion Behar. What it is about: “On the mountain”: the sabbatical year and the jubilee; the land is not sold forever; redemption of land and servants; the ban on interest.
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) — 212. A Torah word with the same number is ריב — “quarrel, dispute” (Genesis 26:20).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 5. A Torah word with the same number is אד — “mist” (Genesis 2:6).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 32. A Torah word with the same number is לב — “heart” (Genesis 6:5).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 853. A Torah word with the same number is המחתת — “the fire pans” (Exodus 38:3).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 40104.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 614. A Torah word with the same number is בברית — “into the covenant” (Deuteronomy 29:11).
The letters that come out are גשמ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 343. A Torah word with the same number is גשם — “rain” (Genesis 7:12).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 942.
The number 212 appears in the classical books 7 times across 6 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 — 212. 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. רבי has 3 letters: ר Resh, ב Bet, י Yod. The first letter is Resh, the last is Yod.
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The name רבי 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 רבי these are ר and י. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 16:29:
ראו כי ה׳ נתן לכם השבת על כן הוא נתן לכם ביום הששי לחם יומים שבו איש תחתיו אל יצא איש ממקמו ביום השביעי
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.
«And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou mayest have: of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.»
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.
