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. A Tanakh word: “joy, gladness” (first in Genesis 31:27). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 353 — the same as the Torah word נגש, “to come near”. 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. Every figure can be checked by hand.
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Adding up the letters of the name שמחה gives 353.
353
The number 353 is the Torah word נגש — «to come near» (Genesis 18:23).
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”.
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) — 353. A Torah word with the same number is נגש — “to come near” (Genesis 18:23).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 20. A Torah word with the same number is היה — “to be, become” (Genesis 1:2).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 47. A Torah word with the same number is אולי — “perhaps” (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 letters that come out are ביסצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. 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 — “Benjamin, 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).
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 — 353. 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. שמחה has 4 letters: ש Shin, מ Mem, ח Chet, ה He. The first letter is Shin, the last is He.
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The name שמחה does not stand as a separate word in the Torah, but appears 2 times with prefixes — first in Берешит 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.
The name שמחה has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 353 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.
