The name Red in Hebrew letters is רד. 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.
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In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is רד. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 204 — the same as the Torah word צדיק, “righteous”. That number points to Torah page 204 of 354 — in the portion Emor. What that portion is about: Laws of the priests; animals without blemish; the calendar of festivals — from the Sabbath to Sukkot; the lamp and the showbread. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 9:26. 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 רד gives 204.
204
The number 204 is the Torah word צדיק — «righteous» (Genesis 6:9).
What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath an issue, he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any one that is unclean by the dead; or from whomsoever the flow of seed goeth out;
This is from the portion Emor. What it is about: Laws of the priests; animals without blemish; the calendar of festivals — from the Sabbath to Sukkot; the lamp and the showbread.
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) — 204. A Torah word with the same number is צדיק — “righteous” (Genesis 6:9).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 6. A Torah word with the same number is בד — “alone, apart” (Genesis 2:18).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 24. A Torah word with the same number is חוי — “Hivite” (Genesis 10:17).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 805. A Torah word with the same number is שרשה — “chain” (Exodus 28:22).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 40016.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 404. A Torah word with the same number is קדש — “holiness, holy thing” (Exodus 3:5).
The letters that come out are גק — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 103. A Torah word with the same number is מנחה — “offering, gift” (Genesis 4:3).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 944.
The number 204 appears in the classical books 6 times across 5 works. The earliest mention is מדרש לפירושים (~1450?).
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 — 204. 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. רד has 2 letters: ר Resh, ד Dalet. The first letter is Resh, the last is Dalet.
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The name רד appears in the Torah as a word 4 times. The first time is Exodus 19:21.
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 רד these are ר and ד. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 9:26:
רק בארץ גשן אשר שם בני ישראל לא היה ברד
This is from the portion Vaera. What it is about: “And I appeared”: the promise of redemption in four expressions; the first seven plagues, from blood to hail.
The name רד has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 204 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.
