Ricardo — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Ricardo in Hebrew letters is ריקרדו. 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.
ריקרדו
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ריקרדו. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 520 — the same as the Torah word שכר, “payment of contract”. That number points to Torah page 166 of 354 — in the portion Vayikra. What that portion is about: “And He called”: the burnt, grain, peace, sin and guilt offerings — the order of the sacrifices. 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. There are no predictions or judgments here — only the text of the Torah and arithmetic you can check.
Adding up the letters of the name ריקרדו gives 520.
520
The number 520 is the Torah word שכר — «payment of contract» (Genesis 15:1).
The number 520, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 166 in the book of Vayikra (Leviticus). These are its opening words:
מן הכשבים או מן העזים לעלה זכר תמים …
The verse this place falls on is Vayikra (Leviticus) 1:10:
וְאִם־מִן־הַצֹּאן קָרְבָּנוֹ מִן־הַכְּשָׂבִים אוֹ מִן־הָעִזִּים לְעֹלָה זָכָר תָּמִים יַקְרִיבֶנּוּ
And if his offering be of the flock, whether of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt-offering, he shall offer it a male without blemish.
This is from the portion Vayikra. What it is about: “And He called”: the burnt, grain, peace, sin and guilt offerings — the order of the sacrifices.
The same number, 520, is given by these biblical names:
דריוש · ענת · כרש · שכר
Nine 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) — 520. A Torah word with the same number is שכר — “payment of contract” (Genesis 15:1).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 16. A Torah word with the same number is אחז — “to seize” (Genesis 22:13).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 79. A Torah word with the same number is עדה — “a stated assemblage” (Exodus 12:3).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2271.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 90152.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 2264.
The word that comes out is גמדגקפ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 230. A Torah word with the same number is ירך — “the thigh” (Genesis 24:2).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1672.
The number 520 appears in the classical books 6 times across 3 works. The earliest mention is מעשה רוקח על המשנה (~1740).
The full message
Every letter of the name explained, the words and namesakes with references, the Hebrew date, the letter and tribe of the month, the day 861 of your life, the psalm by age, the attestations from 834 works — a PDF built the moment you pay.
The name ריקרדו 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 ריקרדו 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”.
Nine 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) — 520. A Torah word with the same number is שכר — “payment of contract” (Genesis 15:1).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 16. A Torah word with the same number is אחז — “to seize” (Genesis 22:13).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 79. A Torah word with the same number is עדה — “a stated assemblage” (Exodus 12:3).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2271.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 90152.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 2264.
The word that comes out is גמדגקפ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 230. A Torah word with the same number is ירך — “the thigh” (Genesis 24:2).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1672.
Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.
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How it is counted
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.
Биньямин Пичхадзе, «Хумаш 354» (חומש 354), Бней-Брак, 2002 / התשס״ג · A calculation, not a prediction.
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