The name Ribai in Hebrew letters is ריבי. 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.
ריבי
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ריבי. A Tanakh name: an Israelite (first in 2 Samuel 23:29; 2 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 222 — the same as the Torah word ברך, “to bless, kneel”. That number points to Torah page 222 of 354 — in the portion Bamidbar. What that portion is about: The census in the desert: 603,550 men; the order of the camps around the Tabernacle; the Levites and their service. 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 ריבי gives 222.
222
The number 222 is the Torah word ברך — «to bless, kneel» (Genesis 1:22).
Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that HaShem spoke with Moses in mount Sinai.
This is from the portion Bamidbar. What it is about: The census in the desert: 603,550 men; the order of the camps around the Tabernacle; the Levites and their service.
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) — 222. A Torah word with the same number is ברך — “to bless, kneel” (Genesis 1:22).
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) — 42. A Torah word with the same number is חדל — “to cease” (Genesis 11:8).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 908. A Torah word with the same number is חרשת — “cutting, carving” (Exodus 31:5).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 40204.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 844. A Torah word with the same number is בשבעתיכם — “in your Feast of Weeks” (Numbers 28:26).
The letters that come out are גמשמ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 383. A Torah word with the same number is שבועה — “oath” (Genesis 24:8).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 962.
The number 222 appears in the classical books 3 times across 1 work. 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 — 222. 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. ריבי has 4 letters: ר Resh, י Yod, ב Bet, י Yod. The first letter is Resh, the last is Yod.
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The name ריבי 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 ריבי 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.
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.
