The name Rikard in Hebrew letters is ריקרד. 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.
ריקרד
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ריקרד. The name comes from the old Germanic words “ric”, “ruler”, and “hard”, “strong”. Three kings of England were called Richard, among them Richard the Lionheart. This form of the name is used in Sweden. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 514 — the same as the Torah word שריד, “survivor”. That number points to Torah page 160 of 354 — in the portion Vayakhel. What that portion is about: The Sabbath comes before the work on the Sanctuary; the people bring more than enough; Bezalel and the craftsmen build the Tabernacle. 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.
You wrote “Rikard” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: ריקרד. A name from the Tanakh — its Tanakh spelling is used. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
Adding up the letters of the name ריקרד gives 514.
514
The number 514 is the Torah word שריד — «survivor» (Numbers 21:35).
No other name in the index gives this number: it is one of 2,980.
The number 514, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 160 in the book of Shmot (Exodus).
The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 38:16:
כָּל־קַלְעֵי הֶחָצֵר סָבִיב שֵׁשׁ מָשְׁזָר
All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.
This is from the portion Vayakhel. What it is about: The Sabbath comes before the work on the Sanctuary; the people bring more than enough; Bezalel and the craftsmen build the Tabernacle.
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) — 514. A Torah word with the same number is שריד — “survivor” (Numbers 21:35).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 10. A Torah word with the same number is בדד — “alone” (Numbers 23:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 73. A Torah word with the same number is גמל — “camel” (Genesis 12:16).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2250.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 90116.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1744.
The letters that come out are גמדגק — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 150. A Torah word with the same number is יסף — “to add” (Genesis 4:2).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1660.
The number 514 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is כל בו (~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 — 514. 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. ריקרד has 5 letters: ר Resh, י Yod, ק Qof, ר Resh, ד Dalet. The first letter is Resh, the last is Dalet.
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The name ריקרד 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 ריקרד 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 ריקרד has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 514 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.
