The name Solomon in Hebrew letters is שלמה. 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.
שלמה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is שלמה. From “shalom,” peace. Son of David, the king who built the Temple in Jerusalem; Song of Songs, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes are attributed to him. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 375 — the same as the Torah word עשה, “to do, make”. That number points to Torah page 21 of 354 — in the portion Lech Lecha. What that portion is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision. 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 שלמה gives 375.
375
The number 375 is the Torah word עשה — «to do, make» (Genesis 1:7).
that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor aught that is thine, lest thou shouldest say: I have made Abram rich;
This is from the portion Lech Lecha. What it is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision.
The same number, 375, is given by these Tanakh names:
Zipporah צפרה
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) — 375. A Torah word with the same number is עשה — “to do, make” (Genesis 1:7).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 15. A Torah word with the same number is זוב — “to flow” (Exodus 3:8).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 51. A Torah word with the same number is אכל — “to eat” (Genesis 2:16).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1360.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 92525.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1375.
The letters that come out are בכיצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 122. A Torah word with the same number is ענב — “grape” (Genesis 40:10).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 520. A Torah word with the same number is שכר — “wages, reward” (Genesis 15:1).
The number 375 appears in the classical books 33 times across 18 works. The earliest mention is ספר יראים (~1190).
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 — 375. 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. שלמה has 4 letters: ש Shin, ל Lamed, מ Mem, ה He. The first letter is Shin, the last is He.
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The name שלמה appears in the Torah as a word 3 times. The first time is שמות 22:8.
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 שלמה 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.
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.
