Tamar — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Tamar in Hebrew letters is תמר. 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.
תמר
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is תמר. “Date palm.” Judah’s daughter-in-law, from whom David’s royal line descends (Genesis 38); also a daughter of David. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 640 — the same as the Torah word שמש, “the sun”. That number points to Torah page 286 of 354 — in the portion Masei. What that portion is about: The forty-two journeys through the desert; the borders of the land; the Levite cities and the cities of refuge. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 5:9. 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 תמר gives 640.
640
The number 640 is the Torah word שמש — «the sun» (Genesis 15:12).
The number 640, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 286 in the book of Bamidbar (Numbers). These are its opening words:
ישב בנגב בארץ כנען בבא בני ישראל ויסעו …
The verse this place falls on is Bamidbar (Numbers) 33:40:
וַיִּשְׁמַע הַכְּנַעֲנִי מֶלֶךְ עֲרָד וְהוּא־יֹשֵׁב בַּנֶּגֶב בְּאֶרֶץ כְּנָעַן בְּבֹא בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל
And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.--
This is from the portion Masei. What it is about: The forty-two journeys through the desert; the borders of the land; the Levite cities and the cities of refuge.
The same number, 640, is given by these biblical names:
רמת · תמר · שמש · מרת
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) — 640. A Torah word with the same number is שמש — “the sun” (Genesis 15:12).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 10. A Torah word with the same number is בדד — “separate” (Numbers 23:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 55. A Torah word with the same number is הלך — “to walk” (Genesis 2:14).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2435.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 201600.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1480.
The word that comes out is איג. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 14. A Torah word with the same number is יד — “a hand” (Genesis 3:22).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 996.
The number 640 appears in the classical books 16 times across 8 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
The full message
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The name תמר appears in the Torah as a word 5 times. The first time is Genesis 14:7. Another 2 times 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 תמר these are ת and ר. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Exodus 5:9:
תכבד העבדה על האנשים ויעשו בה ואל ישעו בדברי שקר
This is from the portion Shemot. What it is about: Slavery in Egypt; Moses in the basket on the Nile; the burning bush and the Name; the first audience with Pharaoh.
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) — 640. A Torah word with the same number is שמש — “the sun” (Genesis 15:12).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 10. A Torah word with the same number is בדד — “separate” (Numbers 23:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 55. A Torah word with the same number is הלך — “to walk” (Genesis 2:14).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2435.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 201600.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1480.
The word that comes out is איג. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 14. A Torah word with the same number is יד — “a hand” (Genesis 3:22).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 996.
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 286
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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