The name Saul in Hebrew letters is שאול. 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.
שאול
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is שאול. “Asked for.” The first king of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin (1 Samuel 9–31). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 337. That number points to Torah page 337 of 354 — in the portion Ki Tavo. What that portion is about: “When you enter”: the first fruits and the declaration; the stones on Mount Ebal; blessings and admonitions. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 34:23. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
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And thou shalt speak and say before HaShem thy G-d: 'A wandering Aramean was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
This is from the portion Ki Tavo. What it is about: “When you enter”: the first fruits and the declaration; the stones on Mount Ebal; blessings and admonitions.
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) — 337.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 13. A Torah word with the same number is אחד — “one” (Genesis 1:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 40. A Torah word with the same number is חלב — “fat” (Genesis 4:4).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1222.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 90937.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1245.
The letters that come out are בתפכ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 502. A Torah word with the same number is בשר — “flesh” (Genesis 2:21).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 557. A Torah word with the same number is ראשון — “first” (Genesis 8:13).
The number 337 appears in the classical books 3 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is פרי עץ חיים (~1573).
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 — 337. 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. שאול has 4 letters: ש Shin, א Alef, ו Vav, ל Lamed. The first letter is Shin, the last is Lamed.
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The name שאול appears in the Torah as a word 4 times. The first time is Genesis 36:37. Another 3 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 שאול these are ש and ל. The Pentateuch has 3 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 34:23:
שלש פעמים בשנה יראה כל זכורך את פני האדן ה׳ אלהי ישראל
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.
«And thou shalt speak and say before HaShem thy G-d: 'A wandering Aramean was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.»
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.
