The name Alba in Hebrew letters is אלבה. 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.
אלבה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אלבה. From the Latin albus, “white”; in Spanish and Italian alba is the word for “dawn”. Very common in Spain. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 38 — the same as the Torah word גלה, “to uncover”. That number points to Torah page 38 of 354 — in the portion Chayei Sarah. What that portion is about: Sarah's death and the purchase of the cave of Machpelah; the servant seeks a wife for Isaac; Rebecca at the well; Abraham's death. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 13:4. 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 אלבה gives 38.
38
The number 38 is the Torah word גלה — «to uncover» (Genesis 9:21).
And I bowed my head, and prostrated myself before HaShem, and blessed HaShem, the G-d of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son.
This is from the portion Chayei Sarah. What it is about: Sarah's death and the purchase of the cave of Machpelah; the servant seeks a wife for Isaac; Rebecca at the well; Abraham's death.
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) — 38. A Torah word with the same number is גלה — “to uncover” (Genesis 9:21).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 11. A Torah word with the same number is חג — “festival” (Exodus 10:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 20. A Torah word with the same number is היה — “to be, become” (Genesis 1:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 124. A Torah word with the same number is עדן — “Eden” (Genesis 2:8).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 930.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 103. A Torah word with the same number is מנחה — “offering, gift” (Genesis 4:3).
The letters that come out are תכשצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 810. A Torah word with the same number is יתת — “Jetheth, chief of Edom” (Genesis 36:40).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 603. A Torah word with the same number is גתר — “Gether, son of Aram” (Genesis 10:23).
The number 38 appears in the classical books 1 time across 1 work. The earliest mention is ליקוטי שושנים (שמשון מאוסטרופולי) (~1640).
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 — 38. 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. אלבה has 4 letters: א Alef, ל Lamed, ב Bet, ה He. The first letter is Alef, the last is He.
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The name אלבה 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 אלבה these are א and ה. The Pentateuch has 49 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 13:4:
אל מקום המזבח אשר עשה שם בראשנה ויקרא שם אברם בשם ה׳
This is from the portion Lech Lecha. What it is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision.
The name אלבה has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 38 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.
