Shani — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Shani in Hebrew letters is שני. 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.
שני
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is שני. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 360 — the same as the Torah word שני, “double, i.e. second”. That number points to Torah page 6 of 354 — in the portion Bereshit. What that portion is about: Creation in six days and the Sabbath; Adam and Eve in the garden; Cain and Abel; ten generations to Noah. 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. 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 שני gives 360.
360
The number 360 is the Torah word שני — «double, i.e. second» (Genesis 1:8).
The number 360, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 6 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis). These are its opening words:
ויבא קין מפרי האדמה מנחה ליהוה והבל הביא …
The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 4:3:
וַיְהִי מִקֵּץ יָמִים וַיָּבֵא קַיִן מִפְּרִי הָאֲדָמָה מִנְחָה לַה׳
And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto HaShem.
This is from the portion Bereshit. What it is about: Creation in six days and the Sabbath; Adam and Eve in the garden; Cain and Abel; ten generations to Noah.
The same number, 360, is given by these biblical names:
שכם · לכיש · קדרון · משך
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) — 360. A Torah word with the same number is שני — “double, i.e. second” (Genesis 1:8).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 9. A Torah word with the same number is בוא — “to go or come” (Genesis 2:19).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 45. A Torah word with the same number is מה — “interrogative what?” (Genesis 2:19).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1345.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 92600.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1010. A Torah word with the same number is יתרת — “the lobe or flap of the liver” (Exodus 29:13).
The word that comes out is בטמ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 51. A Torah word with the same number is אכל — “to eat” (Genesis 2:16).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 486. A Torah word with the same number is סכות — “Succoth, the name of a place in Egypt and of…” (Genesis 33:17).
The number 360 appears in the classical books 18 times across 13 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
The full message
Every letter of the name explained, the words and namesakes with references, the Hebrew date, the letter and tribe of the month, the day 861 of your life, the psalm by age, the attestations from 834 works — a PDF built the moment you pay.
The name שני appears in the Torah as a word 125 times. The first time is Genesis 1:8. Another 74 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 שני 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.
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) — 360. A Torah word with the same number is שני — “double, i.e. second” (Genesis 1:8).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 9. A Torah word with the same number is בוא — “to go or come” (Genesis 2:19).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 45. A Torah word with the same number is מה — “interrogative what?” (Genesis 2:19).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1345.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 92600.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1010. A Torah word with the same number is יתרת — “the lobe or flap of the liver” (Exodus 29:13).
The word that comes out is בטמ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 51. A Torah word with the same number is אכל — “to eat” (Genesis 2:16).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 486. A Torah word with the same number is סכות — “Succoth, the name of a place in Egypt and of…” (Genesis 33:17).
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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