The name Roderik in Hebrew letters is רודריק. 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.
רודריק
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is רודריק. The name comes from the old Germanic words “hrod”, “fame”, and “ric”, “ruler”. Roderic was the last Visigothic king of Spain, at the start of the 8th century. This form of the name is used in English-speaking countries. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 520 — the same as the Torah word שכר, “wages, reward”. 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 Proverbs 27:10. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Roderik” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: רודריק. 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 רודריק gives 520.
520
The number 520 is the Torah word שכר — «wages, reward» (Genesis 15:1).
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.
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) — 520. A Torah word with the same number is שכר — “wages, reward” (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 — “congregation” (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) — 1966.
The letters that come out are גפקגמד — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. 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 — “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).
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 — 520. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
The name רודריק has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 520 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.
