The name Sheal in Hebrew letters is שאל. 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.
שאל
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is שאל. A Tanakh name: an Israelite (first in Ezra 10:29; 1 mention in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “request”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 331 — the same as the Torah word שאל, “to ask”. That number points to Torah page 331 of 354 — in the portion Ki Teitzei. What that portion is about: “When you go out”: seventy-four commandments — the bird's nest, honest weights, divorce, remembering Amalek. 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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Adding up the letters of the name שאל gives 331.
331
The number 331 is the Torah word שאל — «to ask» (Genesis 24:47).
Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide thyself from them; thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.
This is from the portion Ki Teitzei. What it is about: “When you go out”: seventy-four commandments — the bird's nest, honest weights, divorce, remembering Amalek.
The same number, 331, is given by these Tanakh names:
Ephraim אפרים
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) — 331. A Torah word with the same number is שאל — “to ask” (Genesis 24:47).
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) — 34. A Torah word with the same number is לבב — “heart” (Genesis 20:5).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1201.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 90901.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 932.
The letters that come out are בתכ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 422. A Torah word with the same number is שבעים — “seventy” (Genesis 4:24).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 545. A Torah word with the same number is מתקה — “Mithkah, wilderness camp” (Numbers 33:28).
The number 331 appears in the classical books 9 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 — 331. 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. שאל has 3 letters: ש Shin, א Alef, ל Lamed. The first letter is Shin, the last is Lamed.
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The name שאל appears in the Torah as a word 5 times. The first time is Genesis 43:7. Another 2 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 שאל 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.
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.
