The name Zereth in Hebrew letters is צרת. 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.
צרת
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is צרת. A Tanakh name: an Israelite (first in 1 Chronicles 4:7; 1 mention in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 690 — the same as the Torah word ריפת, “Riphath, son of Gomer”. That number points to Torah page 336 of 354 — in the portion Ki Teitzei. What that portion is about: “When you go out”: seventy-four commandments — the bird's nest, honest weights, divorce, remembering Amalek. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Isaiah 10:30. 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 צרת gives 690.
690
The number 690 is the Torah word ריפת — «Riphath, son of Gomer» (Genesis 10:3).
then shall his brother's wife draw nigh unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say: 'So shall it be done unto the man that doth not build up his brother's house.'
This is from the portion Ki Teitzei. What it is about: “When you go out”: seventy-four commandments — the bird's nest, honest weights, divorce, remembering Amalek.
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) — 690. A Torah word with the same number is ריפת — “Riphath, son of Gomer” (Genesis 10:3).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 15. A Torah word with the same number is זוב — “to flow” (Exodus 3:8).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 60. A Torah word with the same number is ילך — “he will go” (Genesis 3:14).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2785.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 208100.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1070.
The letters that come out are הגא — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 9. A Torah word with the same number is בוא — “to come, enter” (Genesis 2:19).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1020.
The number 690 appears in the classical books 3 times across 3 works. The earliest mention is עץ חיים (~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 — 690. 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. צרת has 3 letters: צ Tsadi, ר Resh, ת Tav. The first letter is Tsadi, the last is Tav.
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The name צרת appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Genesis 42:21. Another 2 times it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
The verse of your name
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with צ and ends with ת. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 4 such verses. The first of them is Isaiah 10:30:
The name צרת has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 690 is not among them. Half of all names are like this — neither good nor bad, just a fact of counting.
Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.
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.
