The name Shethar in Hebrew letters is שתר. 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.
שתר
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is שתר. A Tanakh name: a Persian satrap (first in Esther 1:14; 1 mention in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 900 — the same as the Torah word שרת, “to minister, serve”. That number points to Torah page 192 of 354 — in the portion Metzora. What that portion is about: Purification from tzaraat: two birds, cedar and hyssop; tzaraat of houses; discharges and purification. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 23:12. 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 שתר gives 900.
900
The number 900 is the Torah word שרת — «to minister, serve» (Genesis 39:4).
And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
This is from the portion Metzora. What it is about: Purification from tzaraat: two birds, cedar and hyssop; tzaraat of houses; discharges and purification.
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) — 900. A Torah word with the same number is שרת — “to minister, serve” (Genesis 39:4).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 9. A Torah word with the same number is בוא — “to come, enter” (Genesis 2:19).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 63. A Torah word with the same number is חנה — “to encamp” (Genesis 26:17).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 3385.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 290000.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1900.
The letters that come out are באג — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 6. A Torah word with the same number is בד — “alone, apart” (Genesis 2:18).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1276.
The number 900 appears in the classical books 4 times across 3 works. The earliest mention is שושן סודות (שלם) (~1500).
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 — 900. 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. שתר has 3 letters: ש Shin, ת Tav, ר Resh. The first letter is Shin, the last is Resh.
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The name שתר 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 שתר these are ש and ר. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 23:12:
ששת ימים תעשה מעשיך וביום השביעי תשבת למען ינוח שורך וחמרך וינפש בן אמתך והגר
This is from the portion Mishpatim. What it is about: Laws of the servant, damages, theft and pledges; “an eye for an eye” as compensation; the sabbatical year; “we will do and we will hear”.
A verse whose whole sum equals your name
ודל לא תהדר בריבו
Exodus 23:3 · 14 letters in the verse
All the letters of this verse add up to 900 — exactly your name's number. The Pentateuch has 5,853 verses, and only 200 of them fall below 1000. Of the 2,980 names in our index, 80 match this way — about one name in thirty-seven.
The name שתר has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 900 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.
