The name Shashak in Hebrew letters is ששק. 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.
ששק
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ששק. A Tanakh name: an Israelite (first in 1 Chronicles 8:14; 2 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 700 — the same as the Torah word כפרת, “mercy seat, cover”. That number points to Torah page 346 of 354 — in the portion Nitzavim. What that portion is about: “You are standing”: the covenant with all, and with those not here; “the word is very near to you”; choose life. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Deuteronomy 16:18. 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 ששק gives 700.
700
The number 700 is the Torah word כפרת — «mercy seat, cover» (Exodus 25:17).
The secret things belong unto HaShem our G-d; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
This is from the portion Nitzavim. What it is about: “You are standing”: the covenant with all, and with those not here; “the word is very near to you”; choose life.
The same number, 700, is given by these Tanakh names:
Seth שת
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) — 700. A Torah word with the same number is כפרת — “mercy seat, cover” (Exodus 25:17).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 7. A Torah word with the same number is או — “or” (Genesis 24:49).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 61. A Torah word with the same number is אני — “I” (Genesis 6:17).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2785.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 190000.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1600.
The letters that come out are בבד — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 8. A Torah word with the same number is אהב — “to love” (Genesis 22:2).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 906.
The number 700 appears in the classical books 11 times across 5 works. The earliest mention is ספר חסידים (~1200).
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 — 700. 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. ששק has 3 letters: ש Shin, ש Shin, ק Qof. The first letter is Shin, the last is Qof.
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The name ששק 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 ששק these are ש and ק. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Deuteronomy 16:18:
שפטים ושטרים תתן לך בכל שעריך אשר ה׳ אלהיך נתן לך לשבטיך ושפטו את העם משפט צדק
This is from the portion Shoftim. What it is about: Judges and officers; “justice, justice shall you pursue”; the king and his scroll; cities of refuge; witnesses; laws of war.
The name ששק has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 700 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.
