The name Shealtiel in Hebrew letters is שאלתיאל. 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.
שאלתיאל
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is שאלתיאל. A Tanakh name: an Israelite (first in Haggai 1:1; 9 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “I have asked God”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 772 — the same as the Torah word שבעת, “seven”. That number points to Torah page 64 of 354 — in the portion Vayeshev. What that portion is about: Joseph's dreams and his sale by his brothers; Judah and Tamar; Joseph in Potiphar's house and in prison; the dreams of the butler and the baker. 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 שאלתיאל gives 772.
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The number 772 is the Torah word שבעת — «seven» (Genesis 8:10).
And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
This is from the portion Vayeshev. What it is about: Joseph's dreams and his sale by his brothers; Judah and Tamar; Joseph in Potiphar's house and in prison; the dreams of the butler and the baker.
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) — 772. A Torah word with the same number is שבעת — “seven” (Genesis 8:10).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 16. A Torah word with the same number is אחז — “to seize” (Genesis 22:13).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 79. A Torah word with the same number is עדה — “congregation” (Exodus 12:3).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2857.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 251902.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 3918.
The letters that come out are בתכאמתכ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 883.
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1156.
The number 772 appears in the classical books 5 times across 5 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 — 772. 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. שאלתיאל has 7 letters: ש Shin, א Alef, ל Lamed, ת Tav, י Yod, א Alef, ל Lamed. The first letter is Shin, the last is Lamed.
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The name שאלתיאל 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 שאלתיאל 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.
The name שאלתיאל has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 772 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.
