The name Shamlai in Hebrew letters is שמלי. 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.
שמלי
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is שמלי. A Tanakh name: one of the Nethinim (first in Ezra 2:46; 1 mention in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 380 — the same as the Torah word מצרים, “Mizraim, Egypt”. That number points to Torah page 26 of 354 — in the portion Vayera. What that portion is about: Three visitors at Abraham's tent; the plea for Sodom; the birth of Isaac; the binding of Isaac on Mount Moriah. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 12:15. 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 שמלי gives 380.
380
The number 380 is the Torah word מצרים — «Mizraim, Egypt» (Genesis 10:6).
And the men turned from thence, and went toward Sodom; but Abraham stood yet before HaShem.
This is from the portion Vayera. What it is about: Three visitors at Abraham's tent; the plea for Sodom; the birth of Isaac; the binding of Isaac on Mount Moriah.
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) — 380. A Torah word with the same number is מצרים — “Mizraim, Egypt” (Genesis 10:6).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 11. A Torah word with the same number is חג — “festival” (Exodus 10:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 56. A Torah word with the same number is יום — “day” (Genesis 1:5).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1400.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 92600.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1390.
The letters that come out are ביכמ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 72. A Torah word with the same number is חסד — “kindness, mercy” (Genesis 19:19).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 534. A Torah word with the same number is דלקת — “inflammation, fever” (Deuteronomy 28:22).
The number 380 appears in the classical books 13 times across 7 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 — 380. 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. שמלי has 4 letters: ש Shin, מ Mem, ל Lamed, י Yod. The first letter is Shin, the last is Yod.
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The name שמלי 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 שמלי these are ש and י. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 12:15:
שבעת ימים מצות תאכלו אך ביום הראשון תשביתו שאר מבתיכם כי כל אכל חמץ ונכרתה הנפש ההוא מישראל מיום הראשן עד יום השבעי
This is from the portion Bo. What it is about: Locusts, darkness and the death of the firstborn; the Passover lamb; the exodus from Egypt; the commandment of tefillin.
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.
