Simcha — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Simcha in Hebrew letters is שמחה. 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.
שמחה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is שמחה. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 353 — the same as the Torah word נגש, “to be or come”. That number points to Torah page 353 of 354 — in the portion Vezot HaBracha. What that portion is about: “This is the blessing”: Moses blesses the tribes; he sees the land from the mountain; Moses dies — “no prophet arose like Moses”. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 49:31. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. There are no predictions or judgments here — only the text of the Torah and arithmetic you can check.
Adding up the letters of the name שמחה gives 353.
353
The number 353 is the Torah word נגש — «to be or come» (Genesis 18:23).
The number 353, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 353 in the book of Devarim (Deuteronomy). These are its opening words:
ואל עמו תביאנו ידיו רב לו ועזר מצריו …
The verse this place falls on is Devarim (Deuteronomy) 33:7:
וְזֹאת לִיהוּדָה וַיֹּאמַר שְׁמַע ה׳ קוֹל יְהוּדָה וְאֶל־עַמּוֹ תְּבִיאֶנּוּ יָדָיו רָב לוֹ וְעֵזֶר מִצָּרָיו תִּהְיֶה ס
And this for Judah, and he said: Hear, HaShem, the voice of Judah, and bring him in unto his people; his hands shall contend for him, and Thou shalt be a help against his adversaries.
This is from the portion Vezot HaBracha. What it is about: “This is the blessing”: Moses blesses the tribes; he sees the land from the mountain; Moses dies — “no prophet arose like Moses”.
The same number, 353, is given by these biblical names:
אלישיב · גשן · שבנא · אשבן
Nine 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) — 353. A Torah word with the same number is נגש — “to be or come” (Genesis 18:23).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 20. A Torah word with the same number is היה — “to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass” (Genesis 1:2).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 47. A Torah word with the same number is אולי — “if not” (Genesis 16:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1291.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 91689.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1341.
The word that comes out is ביסצ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 162. A Torah word with the same number is בנימין — “Binjamin, youngest son of Jacob” (Genesis 35:18).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 864.
The number 353 appears in the classical books 3 times across 3 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
The full message
Every letter of the name explained, the words and namesakes with references, the Hebrew date, the letter and tribe of the month, the day 861 of your life, the psalm by age, the attestations from 834 works — a PDF built the moment you pay.
The name שמחה does not stand as a separate word in the Torah, but appears 2 times with prefixes — first in Genesis 31:27.
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 שמחה these are ש and ה. The Pentateuch has 15 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 49:31:
שמה קברו את אברהם ואת שרה אשתו שמה קברו את יצחק ואת רבקה אשתו ושמה קברתי את לאה
This is from the portion Vayechi. What it is about: Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh and all his sons; Jacob's death and burial in Hebron; Joseph's death.
Nine 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) — 353. A Torah word with the same number is נגש — “to be or come” (Genesis 18:23).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 20. A Torah word with the same number is היה — “to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass” (Genesis 1:2).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 47. A Torah word with the same number is אולי — “if not” (Genesis 16:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1291.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 91689.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1341.
The word that comes out is ביסצ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 162. A Torah word with the same number is בנימין — “Binjamin, youngest son of Jacob” (Genesis 35:18).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 864.
Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.
Compute with a date of birth The whole Torah page 353
Other names
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How it is counted
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.
Биньямин Пичхадзе, «Хумаш 354» (חומש 354), Бней-Брак, 2002 / התשס״ג · A calculation, not a prediction.
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