The name Varfolomey in Hebrew letters is ורפולומיי. 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.
ורפולומיי
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ורפולומיי. Varfolomey is a Russian name for boys that comes from Aramaic: the name “bar Talmai” means “son of Talmai”. Today this name is found mostly in Russia. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 388 — the same as the Torah word שלחן, “table”. That number points to Torah page 34 of 354 — in the portion Chayei Sarah. What that portion is about: Sarah's death and the purchase of the cave of Machpelah; the servant seeks a wife for Isaac; Rebecca at the well; Abraham's death. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 1:8. 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 ורפולומיי gives 388.
388
The number 388 is the Torah word שלחן — «table» (Exodus 25:23).
And Sarah died in Kiriatharba--the same is Hebron--in the land of Canaan; and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
This is from the portion Chayei Sarah. What it is about: Sarah's death and the purchase of the cave of Machpelah; the servant seeks a wife for Isaac; Rebecca at the well; Abraham's death.
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) — 388. A Torah word with the same number is שלחן — “table” (Exodus 25:23).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 37. A Torah word with the same number is גדל — “to grow, be great” (Genesis 12:2).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 100. A Torah word with the same number is על — “on, over” (Genesis 1:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1623.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 49208.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 2574.
The letters that come out are פגופכפיממ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 359. A Torah word with the same number is נטש — “to leave, allow” (Genesis 31:28).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 821. A Torah word with the same number is והשקית — “and you shall give drink” (Numbers 20:8).
The number 388 appears in the classical books 5 times across 3 works. The earliest mention is שער הפסוקים (~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 — 388. 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. ורפולומיי has 9 letters: ו Vav, ר Resh, פ Pe, ו Vav, ל Lamed, ו Vav, מ Mem, י Yod, י Yod. The first letter is Vav, the last is Yod.
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The name ורפולומיי 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 ורפולומיי these are ו and י. The Pentateuch has 223 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 1:8:
ויקרא אלהים לרקיע שמים ויהי ערב ויהי בקר יום שני
This is from the portion Bereshit. What it is about: Creation in six days and the Sabbath; Adam and Eve in the garden; Cain and Abel; ten generations to Noah.
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: ורפולומיי = 388. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
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.
