Sarah — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Sarah in Hebrew letters is שרה. 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.
שרה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is שרה. “Lady, princess.” Abraham’s wife and the first matriarch; the Torah changes Sarai to Sarah with the promise of a son (Genesis 17:15). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 505 — the same as the Torah word שרה, “Sarah, Abraham's wife”. That number points to Torah page 151 of 354 — in the portion Ki Tisa. What that portion is about: The half-shekel for the census; the golden calf and the broken tablets; the thirteen attributes of mercy; the second tablets. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 49:31. 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 שרה gives 505.
505
The number 505 is the Torah word שרה — «Sarah, Abraham's wife» (Genesis 17:15).
The number 505, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 151 in the book of Shmot (Exodus). These are its opening words:
גם הצאן והבקר אל ירעו אל מול ההר …
The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 34:3:
וְאִישׁ לֹא־יַעֲלֶה עִמָּךְ וְגַם־אִישׁ אַל־יֵרָא בְּכָל־הָהָר גַּם־הַצֹּאן וְהַבָּקָר אַל־יִרְעוּ אֶל־מוּל הָהָר הַהוּא
And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.'
This is from the portion Ki Tisa. What it is about: The half-shekel for the census; the golden calf and the broken tablets; the thirteen attributes of mercy; the second tablets.
The same number, 505, is given by these biblical names:
שרה · קהת · מתניה
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) — 505. A Torah word with the same number is שרה — “Sarah, Abraham's wife” (Genesis 17:15).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 10. A Torah word with the same number is בדד — “separate” (Numbers 23:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 46. A Torah word with the same number is מאה — “a hundred” (Genesis 5:3).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1905.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 130025.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1305.
The word that comes out is בגצ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 95. A Torah word with the same number is יפה — “beautiful” (Genesis 12:11).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 876.
The number 505 appears in the classical books 5 times across 4 works. The earliest mention is פרי עץ חיים שער יום הכפורים (~1573).
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The name שרה appears in the Torah as a word 28 times. The first time is Genesis 17:15. Another 9 times it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
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 שרה these are ש and ה. The Pentateuch has 15 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 49:31:
שמה קברו את אברהם ואת שרה אשתו שמה קברו את יצחק ואת רבקה אשתו ושמה קברתי את לאה
This is from the portion Vayechi. What it is about: Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh and all his sons; Jacob's death and burial in Hebron; Joseph's death.
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) — 505. A Torah word with the same number is שרה — “Sarah, Abraham's wife” (Genesis 17:15).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 10. A Torah word with the same number is בדד — “separate” (Numbers 23:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 46. A Torah word with the same number is מאה — “a hundred” (Genesis 5:3).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1905.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 130025.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1305.
The word that comes out is בגצ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 95. A Torah word with the same number is יפה — “beautiful” (Genesis 12:11).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 876.
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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