The name Shobach in Hebrew letters is שובך. 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.
שובך
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is שובך. A Tanakh name: an Aramean (first in 2 Samuel 10:16; 2 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 328 — the same as the Torah word שכח, “to forget”. That number points to Torah page 328 of 354 — in the portion Shoftim. What that portion is about: Judges and officers; “justice, justice shall you pursue”; the king and his scroll; cities of refuge; witnesses; laws of war. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 23:6. 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 שובך gives 328.
328
The number 328 is the Torah word שכח — «to forget» (Genesis 27:45).
and shall say unto them: 'Hear, O Israel, ye draw nigh this day unto battle against your enemies; let not your heart faint; fear not, nor be alarmed, neither be ye affrighted at them;
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.
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) — 808. A Torah word with the same number is תחת — “under, beneath” (Genesis 1:7).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 13. A Torah word with the same number is אחד — “one” (Genesis 1:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 40. A Torah word with the same number is חלב — “fat” (Genesis 4:4).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1194.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 90440.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1242.
The letters that come out are בפשל — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 412. A Torah word with the same number is בית — “house” (Genesis 6:14).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 884. A Torah word with the same number is חצצוןתמר — “Hazazon-tamar, Amorite town” (Genesis 14:7).
The number 328 appears in the classical books 7 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 — 328. 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. שובך has 4 letters: ש Shin, ו Vav, ב Bet, ך final Kaf. The first letter is Shin, the last is final Kaf.
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The name שובך appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Genesis 3:19.
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 שובך these are ש and כ. The Pentateuch has 6 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 23:6:
שמענו אדני נשיא אלהים אתה בתוכנו במבחר קברינו קבר את מתך איש ממנו את קברו לא יכלה ממך מקבר מתך
This is from the portion Chayei Sarah. What it is about: Sarah's death and the purchase of the cave of Machpelah; the servant seeks a wife for Isaac; Rebecca at the well; Abraham's death.
«and shall say unto them: 'Hear, O Israel, ye draw nigh this day unto battle against your enemies; let not your heart faint; fear not, nor be alarmed, neither be ye affrighted at them;»
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.
