The name Saskiya in Hebrew letters is ססקייה. 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.
ססקייה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ססקייה. Saskia is a Dutch name, probably from the Germanic word Sachs, “Saxon”, the name of a people. Saskia van Uylenburgh married the painter Rembrandt in 1634 and appears in many of his pictures. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 245 — the same as the Torah word מהר, “to hasten”. That number points to Torah page 245 of 354 — in the portion Shlach. What that portion is about: The twelve spies; forty years for forty days; challah and tzitzit. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Numbers 14:19. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Saskiya” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: ססקייה. 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 ססקייה gives 245.
245
The number 245 is the Torah word מהר — «to hasten» (Genesis 18:6).
and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land.' --Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.--
This is from the portion Shlach. What it is about: The twelve spies; forty years for forty days; challah and tzitzit.
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) — 245. A Torah word with the same number is מהר — “to hasten” (Genesis 18:6).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 20. A Torah word with the same number is היה — “to be, become” (Genesis 1:2).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 74. A Torah word with the same number is עד — “until, as far as” (Genesis 3:19).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1230.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 17425.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1115.
The letters that come out are חחדממצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 190. A Torah word with the same number is כנען — “Canaan, son of Ham” (Genesis 9:18).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 472. A Torah word with the same number is עבת — “cord, twisted work” (Exodus 28:14).
The number 245 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 works. 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 — 245. 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. ססקייה has 6 letters: ס Samekh, ס Samekh, ק Qof, י Yod, י Yod, ה He. The first letter is Samekh, the last is He.
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The name ססקייה 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 ססקייה these are ס and ה. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Numbers 14:19:
סלח נא לעון העם הזה כגדל חסדך וכאשר נשאתה לעם הזה ממצרים ועד הנה
This is from the portion Shlach. What it is about: The twelve spies; forty years for forty days; challah and tzitzit.
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: ססקייה = 245. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
«and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land.' --Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.--»
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.
