Yarden — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Yarden in Hebrew letters is ירדן. 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.
ירדן
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ירדן. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 264 — the same as the Torah word ירדן, “Jarden, the principal river of Palestine”. That number points to Torah page 264 of 354 — in the portion Balak. What that portion is about: Balak hires Balaam; the donkey sees the angel; blessing instead of curse: “how goodly are your tents, O Jacob”. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 1:3. 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 ירדן gives 264.
264
The number 264 is the Torah word ירדן — «Jarden, the principal river of Palestine» (Genesis 13:10).
The number 264, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 264 in the book of Bamidbar (Numbers). These are its opening words:
רכב על אתנו ושני נעריו עמו ותרא האתון …
The verse this place falls on is Bamidbar (Numbers) 22:22:
וַיִּחַר־אַף אֱלֹהִים כִּי־הוֹלֵךְ הוּא וַיִּתְיַצֵּב מַלְאַךְ ה׳ בַּדֶּרֶךְ לְשָׂטָן לוֹ וְהוּא רֹכֵב עַל־אֲתֹנוֹ וּשְׁנֵי נְעָרָיו עִמּוֹ
And G-d's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of HaShem placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. --Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.--
This is from the portion Balak. What it is about: Balak hires Balaam; the donkey sees the angel; blessing instead of curse: “how goodly are your tents, O Jacob”.
The same number, 264, is given by these biblical names:
ירדן · נחור · חורן · גמריהו
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) — 914.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 12. A Torah word with the same number is הוא — “she or it)” (Genesis 2:11).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 48. A Torah word with the same number is יובל — “the blast of a horn” (Exodus 19:13).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1055.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 42616.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 698.
The word that comes out is מגקט. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 152. A Torah word with the same number is נקב — “to puncture, literally” (Genesis 30:28).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1070.
The number 264 appears in the classical books 6 times across 3 works. The earliest mention is מגלה עמוקות (~1637).
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The name ירדן appears in the Torah as a word 7 times. The first time is Genesis 13:10. Another 44 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 ירדן these are י and נ. The Pentateuch has 4 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 1:3:
יששכר זבולן ובנימן
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) — 914.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 12. A Torah word with the same number is הוא — “she or it)” (Genesis 2:11).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 48. A Torah word with the same number is יובל — “the blast of a horn” (Exodus 19:13).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1055.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 42616.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 698.
The word that comes out is מגקט. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 152. A Torah word with the same number is נקב — “to puncture, literally” (Genesis 30:28).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1070.
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 264
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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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