The name Vratislav in Hebrew letters is ורטיסלב. 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.
ורטיסלב
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ורטיסלב. This name comes from the Slavic languages. Its source is the word or name vratiti + slava, which means “to bring back glory”; today it is mostly found in the Czech Republic, and it was borne by King Vratislaus II. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 317 — the same as the Torah word שחט, “to slaughter”. That number points to Torah page 317 of 354 — in the portion Re'eh. What that portion is about: “See”: blessing and curse; one place of worship; the tithe; permitted food; the three pilgrimage festivals. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 1:10. 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 ורטיסלב gives 317.
317
The number 317 is the Torah word שחט — «to slaughter» (Genesis 22:10).
Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of HaShem.
This is from the portion Re'eh. What it is about: “See”: blessing and curse; one place of worship; the tithe; permitted food; the three pilgrimage festivals.
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) — 317. A Torah word with the same number is שחט — “to slaughter” (Genesis 22:10).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 29. A Torah word with the same number is דכה — “crushed” (Deuteronomy 23:2).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 74. A Torah word with the same number is עד — “until, as far as” (Genesis 3:19).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1279.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 44721.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1569.
The letters that come out are פגנמחכש — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 501. A Torah word with the same number is אשר — “who, which, that” (Genesis 1:7).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1567.
The number 317 appears in the classical books 5 times across 5 works. The earliest mention is מדרש לפירושים (~1450?).
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 — 317. 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. ורטיסלב has 7 letters: ו Vav, ר Resh, ט Tet, י Yod, ס Samekh, ל Lamed, ב Bet. The first letter is Vav, the last is Bet.
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The name ורטיסלב 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 ורטיסלב these are ו and ב. The Pentateuch has 131 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 1:10:
ויקרא אלהים ליבשה ארץ ולמקוה המים קרא ימים וירא אלהים כי טוב
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: ורטיסלב = 317. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
«Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of HaShem.»
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.
