The name Shuthelah in Hebrew letters is שותלח. 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.
שותלח
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is שותלח. A Tanakh name: the name of two Israelites (first in Numbers 26:35; 4 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 744 — the same as the Torah word שותלח, “Shuthelah, son of Ephraim”. That number points to Torah page 36 of 354 — in the portion Chayei Sarah. What that portion 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. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 7:9. 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 שותלח gives 744.
744
The number 744 is the Torah word שותלח — «Shuthelah, son of Ephraim» (Numbers 26:35).
So let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say: Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say: Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also; let the same be she that Thou hast appointed for Thy servant, even for Isaac; and thereby shall I know that Thou hast shown kindness unto my master.'
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.
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) — 744. A Torah word with the same number is שותלח — “Shuthelah, son of Ephraim” (Numbers 26:35).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 24. A Torah word with the same number is חוי — “Hivite” (Genesis 10:17).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 69. A Torah word with the same number is אביון — “poor, needy” (Exodus 23:6).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2752.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 251000.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 2792.
The letters that come out are בפאכס — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 163. A Torah word with the same number is אצבע — “finger” (Exodus 8:15).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1270.
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 — 744. 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. שותלח has 5 letters: ש Shin, ו Vav, ת Tav, ל Lamed, ח Chet. The first letter is Shin, the last is Chet.
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The name שותלח appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Números 26:35. Another 1 time 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 שותלח these are ש and ח. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 7:9:
שנים שנים באו אל נח אל התבה זכר ונקבה כאשר צוה אלהים את נח
This is from the portion Noach. What it is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham.
A verse whose whole sum equals your name
אך אם יום או יומים יעמד לא יקם כי כספו הוא
Exodus 21:21 · 32 letters in the verse
All the letters of this verse add up to 744 — 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 שותלח has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 744 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.
