The name Shimri in Hebrew letters is שמרי. 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.
שמרי
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is שמרי. A Tanakh name: the name of four Israelites (first in 1 Chronicles 4:37; 4 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “watchful”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 550 — the same as the Torah word נתק, “scall, scalp disease”. That number points to Torah page 196 of 354 — in the portion Achrei Mot. What that portion is about: The service of Yom Kippur: two goats, the lot, the Holy of Holies; the prohibition of blood; the laws of forbidden unions. 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. Every figure can be checked by hand.
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Adding up the letters of the name שמרי gives 550.
550
The number 550 is the Torah word נתק — «scall, scalp disease» (Leviticus 13:30).
And he shall make atonement for the most holy place, and he shall make atonement for the tent of meeting and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.
This is from the portion Achrei Mot. What it is about: The service of Yom Kippur: two goats, the lot, the Holy of Holies; the prohibition of blood; the laws of forbidden unions.
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) — 550. A Torah word with the same number is נתק — “scall, scalp disease” (Leviticus 13:30).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 10. A Torah word with the same number is בדד — “alone” (Numbers 23:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 64. A Torah word with the same number is נטה — “to stretch out, pitch” (Genesis 12:8).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2090.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 131700.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1730.
The letters that come out are ביגמ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 55. A Torah word with the same number is הלך — “to go, walk” (Genesis 2:14).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 970.
The number 550 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is דרושי שער הכוונות (~1573).
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 — 550. 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. שמרי has 4 letters: ש Shin, מ Mem, ר Resh, י Yod. The first letter is Shin, the last is Yod.
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The name שמרי appears in the Torah as a word 4 times. The first time is Exodus 20:6. Another 3 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 שמרי 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.
The name שמרי has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 550 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.
