The name Shaaph in Hebrew letters is שעף. 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.
שעף
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is שעף. A Tanakh name: the name of two Israelites (first in 1 Chronicles 2:47; 2 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 450 — the same as the Torah word מררי, “Merari, son of Levi”. That number points to Torah page 96 of 354 — in the portion Shemot. What that portion is about: Slavery in Egypt; Moses in the basket on the Nile; the burning bush and the Name; the first audience with Pharaoh. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Isaiah 6:2. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
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Adding up the letters of the name שעף gives 450.
450
The number 450 is the Torah word מררי — «Merari, son of Levi» (Genesis 46:11).
but every woman shall ask of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment; and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.'
This is from the portion Shemot. What it is about: Slavery in Egypt; Moses in the basket on the Nile; the burning bush and the Name; the first audience with Pharaoh.
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) — 1170.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 18. A Torah word with the same number is חי — “living” (Genesis 1:20).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 54. A Torah word with the same number is מטה — “staff, tribe” (Genesis 38:18).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1825.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 101300.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1120.
The letters that come out are בזו — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 15. A Torah word with the same number is זוב — “to flow” (Exodus 3:8).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 571. A Torah word with the same number is ראשיכם — “your heads” (Leviticus 10:6).
The number 450 appears in the classical books 4 times across 3 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
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 — 450. 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. שעף has 3 letters: ש Shin, ע Ayin, ף final Pe. The first letter is Shin, the last is final Pe.
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The name שעף 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
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with ש and ends with פ. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 8 such verses. The first of them is Isaiah 6:2:
שרפים עמדים ממעל לו שש כנפים שש כנפים לאחד בשתים יכסה פניו ובשתים יכסה רגליו ובשתים יעופף
The name שעף has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 450 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.
