My Week: …
Study, not prophecy. This page looks for places where your name and this week's news themes sit close together in the letters of the weekly Torah portion, then checks how often shuffled text does the same. Most of the time the answer is "about as often as chance", and we say so. Nothing here predicts anything or tells you what to do. Use it as a way into the verses themselves.
Your name
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This week's themes
My Codes
Search the Torah for a name or word spelled out at equal letter skips (an ELS). Every result is shown next to what shuffled text gives by chance, because long texts contain many such patterns by chance.
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How often does appear?
Gematria of
Gematria values are arithmetic on letters, shown for study. A matching value is not a sign of anything.
Where it appears
Sorted by the shortest skip first. Positive skip reads forwards, negative backwards. Tap a row to open its letter grid.
Optional: your Hebrew birth date
Converted with the Hebcal API (CC BY 4.0). The date is sent to Hebcal only to convert it; nothing is stored.
This Week:
This is study and exploration, not prophecy. The terms were fixed before any search was run, and every term is listed below, including the ones that came out at chance (misses).
Pre-registered terms
What the columns mean
- Found: ELS (skip ±2 to ±1000) with at least one letter inside the parsha.
- Expected: the formula estimate if letters were random with the Torah's letter frequencies.
- Shuffled parsha: the parsha's own letters shuffled times (the rest of the Torah unchanged). This is the main baseline. p = share of shuffles that matched or beat the real count (smallest possible = ).
- Shuffled words: the same with the parsha's word order shuffled (real words kept, order destroyed).
- Window rank: how this parsha ranks among all same-length stretches of the Torah (1 = most ELS).
- Corrected p: Holm correction for testing 5 terms at once. Below 0.05 = "above chance", which here still means only "a curiosity to re-test", never evidence.
Public log
Headlines
Headlines feed coming in Phase 1 (GDELT plus Times of Israel, Ynet, Reuters, and AP feeds). This preview shows no headlines rather than placeholder ones.
Method & Sources
What an ELS is
Remove spaces from the Torah to get one string of 304,805 letters. An equidistant letter sequence spells a word by taking every d-th letter, forwards or backwards. Final letter forms (ך ם ן ף ץ) are treated as their regular forms for searching and kept for gematria.
Why a baseline is always shown
A long text contains many short words at some skip purely by chance: a 3-letter word typically appears thousands of times. So every count here sits beside (1) a formula estimate from letter frequencies and (2) the same search on shuffled copies of the text. A count that matches the shuffles is what chance gives. A count above every shuffle is a curiosity worth re-testing with fresh, pre-registered terms, not a message.
My Week: how the name–theme test works
A simplified version of the "close together" idea in Witztum, Rips & Rosenberg (1994) and McKay et al. (1999), not their exact statistic. (1) Find your name and each theme word as ELS (skips ±2 to ±1000) entirely inside this week's portion, keeping the 300 shortest skips of each. (2) For each pair, write the portion in rows as wide as one of the two skips, wrapping around like a cylinder, and measure the smallest box (rows × columns) that holds both words. (3) A theme's score is its smallest box over all its spellings. (4) Do exactly the same on shuffled copies of the portion (same letters, random order) and on every other stretch of the Torah of the same length. The chance figure is the share that did as well or better. (5) Because about ten themes are tested at once, the figures are corrected for multiple tests (Holm). Plain-text links simply read the portion: theme words written openly, and words with the same gematria as your name.
What this site does not claim
We never say the Torah predicts events. Researchers disagree sharply about Torah codes. The original paper (Witztum, Rips & Rosenberg 1994) reported a significant effect for rabbis' names and dates. McKay, Bar-Natan, Bar-Hillel & Kalai (1999) argued that the result came from choices in the data (spellings, appellations, dates) and reproduced a similar effect in a Hebrew translation of War and Peace. Witztum and Rips published replies defending their work. This site shows both sides and lets the baselines speak.
Text
The standard Sefer Torah text (Ashkenazi/Sephardi scrolls), 304,805 letters: Genesis 78,064 · Exodus 63,529 · Leviticus 44,790 · Numbers 63,530 · Deuteronomy 54,892. Written text (ketiv) only; vowels, cantillation and paragraph marks removed. Deuteronomy 23:2 reads דכה.
Sources and credits
- Torah text: Miqra according to the Masorah, Hebrew Wikisource, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed via the Sefaria API, with the edition's own notes for the Ashkenazi/Sephardi scroll readings applied. Our letter-only derivative file is shared under the same licence.
- Hebrew dates and the weekly Torah portion: Hebcal (converter and leyning APIs), CC BY 4.0.
- English verses: The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation (JPS 1917), public domain, via the Sefaria API (Sefaria lists its licence as Public Domain).
- News themes (My Week): headlines from the Times of Israel, Ynet News and BBC News World RSS feeds, linked to the original articles. We group them into themes; we never write or change a headline.
- Witztum, D., Rips, E. & Rosenberg, Y. (1994). Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis. Statistical Science 9(3), 429–438. doi:10.1214/ss/1177010393
- McKay, B., Bar-Natan, D., Bar-Hillel, M. & Kalai, G. (1999). Solving the Bible Code Puzzle. Statistical Science 14(2), 150–173. doi:10.1214/ss/1009212243
- Witztum & Rips: replies to McKay et al. (published by the authors; see the discussion around the 1999 paper).