The name Tara in Hebrew letters is טרה. 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.
טרה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is טרה. From the Hill of Tara in Ireland, the seat of the old high kings. In Sanskrit a separate word tara means “star”. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 214 — the same as the Torah word ירד, “to go down”. That number points to Torah page 214 of 354 — in the portion Bechukotai. What that portion is about: “If you walk in My statutes”: blessings for faithfulness and admonitions; vows and valuations; the tithe. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 19:4. 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 טרה gives 214.
214
The number 214 is the Torah word ירד — «to go down» (Genesis 11:5).
And if in spite of these things ye will not be corrected unto Me, but will walk contrary unto Me;
This is from the portion Bechukotai. What it is about: “If you walk in My statutes”: blessings for faithfulness and admonitions; vows and valuations; the tithe.
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) — 214. A Torah word with the same number is ירד — “to go down” (Genesis 11:5).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 16. A Torah word with the same number is אחז — “to seize” (Genesis 22:13).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 34. A Torah word with the same number is לבב — “heart” (Genesis 20:5).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 855. A Torah word with the same number is אמתחתו — “his sack” (Genesis 42:27).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 40106.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 432.
The letters that come out are נגצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 143. A Torah word with the same number is צבאים — “Zeboiim, city of the plain” (Genesis 10:19).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 935.
The number 214 appears in the classical books 8 times across 4 works. The earliest mention is שער הכוונות (~1573).
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 — 214. 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. טרה has 3 letters: ט Tet, ר Resh, ה He. The first letter is Tet, the last is He.
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The name טרה does not stand as a word in the Pentateuch — as with most names, including many Tanakh names from the later books.
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 טרה these are ט and ה. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 19:4:
טרם ישכבו ואנשי העיר אנשי סדם נסבו על הבית מנער ועד זקן כל העם מקצה
This is from the portion Vayera. What it is about: Three visitors at Abraham's tent; the plea for Sodom; the birth of Isaac; the binding of Isaac on Mount Moriah.
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.
