The name Adalbert in Hebrew letters is אדלברט. 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.
אדלברט
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אדלברט. From Old German adal “noble” and beraht “bright”. Saint Adalbert of Prague was a bishop in the 10th century, and the name is still used in Germany and Central Europe. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 246 — the same as the Torah word מדבר, “wilderness”. That number points to Torah page 246 of 354 — in the portion Shlach. What that portion is about: The twelve spies; forty years for forty days; challah and tzitzit. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is 1 Kings 22:50. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Adalbert” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: אדלברט. A name from the Tanakh — its Tanakh spelling is used. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
Adding up the letters of the name אדלברט gives 246.
246
The number 246 is the Torah word מדבר — «wilderness» (Genesis 14:6).
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
This is from the portion Shlach. What it is about: The twelve spies; forty years for forty days; challah and tzitzit.
The same number, 246, is given by these Tanakh names:
Gabriel גבריאל
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) — 246. A Torah word with the same number is מדבר — “wilderness” (Genesis 14:6).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 21. A Torah word with the same number is אך — “only, surely” (Genesis 7:23).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 48. A Torah word with the same number is יובל — “ram's horn, jubilee” (Exodus 19:13).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 959.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 41002.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 561. A Torah word with the same number is תועפה — “strength, horns” (Numbers 23:22).
The letters that come out are תקכשגנ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 873.
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1960.
The number 246 appears in the classical books 6 times across 5 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
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 — 246. 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. אדלברט has 6 letters: א Alef, ד Dalet, ל Lamed, ב Bet, ר Resh, ט Tet. The first letter is Alef, the last is Tet.
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The name אדלברט 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
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with א and ends with ט. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 5 such verses. The first of them is 1 Kings 22:50:
אז אמר אחזיהו בן אחאב אל יהושפט ילכו עבדי עם עבדיך באניות ולא אבה יהושפט
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: אדלברט = 246. 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.
