The name Remaliah in Hebrew letters is רמליהו. 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.
רמליהו
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is רמליהו. A Tanakh name: an Israelite (first in 2 Kings 15:25; 13 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 291 — the same as the Torah word ארץ, “earth, land”. That number points to Torah page 291 of 354 — in the portion Masei. What that portion is about: The forty-two journeys through the desert; the borders of the land; the Levite cities and the cities of refuge. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 23:19. 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 רמליהו gives 291.
291
The number 291 is the Torah word ארץ — «earth, land» (Genesis 1:1).
So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave each one to its own inheritance.'
This is from the portion Masei. What it is about: The forty-two journeys through the desert; the borders of the land; the Levite cities and the cities of refuge.
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) — 291. A Torah word with the same number is ארץ — “earth, land” (Genesis 1:1).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 21. A Torah word with the same number is אך — “only, surely” (Genesis 7:23).
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) — 1136.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 42661.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1566.
The letters that come out are גיכמצפ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 243. A Torah word with the same number is אברם — “Abram” (Genesis 11:26).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 702. A Torah word with the same number is שבת — “sabbath” (Exodus 16:23).
The number 291 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is שער מאמרי רשב"י (~1573).
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 — 291. 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. רמליהו has 6 letters: ר Resh, מ Mem, ל Lamed, י Yod, ה He, ו Vav. The first letter is Resh, the last is Vav.
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The name רמליהו 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 רמליהו these are ר and ו. The Pentateuch has 6 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 23:19:
ראשית בכורי אדמתך תביא בית ה׳ אלהיך לא תבשל גדי בחלב אמו
This is from the portion Mishpatim. What it is about: Laws of the servant, damages, theft and pledges; “an eye for an eye” as compensation; the sabbatical year; “we will do and we will hear”.
The name רמליהו has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 291 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.
