The name Avichail in Hebrew letters is אביחיל. 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.
אביחיל
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אביחיל. A Hebrew name made of avi, “my father”, and chayil, “strength”. In the Tanakh, Avichail is the father of Queen Esther, as told in the Book of Esther. This is its Hebrew spelling from the Tanakh. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 61 — the same as the Torah word אני, “I”. That number points to Torah page 61 of 354 — in the portion Vayishlach. What that portion is about: Wrestling with the angel and the name Israel; the meeting with Esau; Dinah in Shechem; the birth of Benjamin and Rachel's death. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 10:32. 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 אביחיל gives 61.
61
The number 61 is the Torah word אני — «I» (Genesis 6:17).
And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the mid-wife said unto her: 'Fear not; for this also is a son for thee.'
This is from the portion Vayishlach. What it is about: Wrestling with the angel and the name Israel; the meeting with Esau; Dinah in Shechem; the birth of Benjamin and Rachel'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) — 61. A Torah word with the same number is אני — “I” (Genesis 6:17).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 16. A Torah word with the same number is אחז — “to seize” (Genesis 22:13).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 43. A Torah word with the same number is גם — “also” (Genesis 3:6).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 255. A Torah word with the same number is נהר — “river” (Genesis 2:10).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 1169.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 130. A Torah word with the same number is עין — “eye, spring” (Genesis 3:5).
The letters that come out are תשמסמכ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 860. A Torah word with the same number is נתתי — “I have given” (Genesis 1:29).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1055.
The number 61 appears in the classical books 18 times across 11 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 — 61. 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. אביחיל has 6 letters: א Alef, ב Bet, י Yod, ח Chet, י Yod, ל Lamed. The first letter is Alef, the last is Lamed.
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The name אביחיל appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Бемидбар 3:35.
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 אביחיל these are א and ל. The Pentateuch has 11 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 10:32:
אלה משפחת בני נח לתולדתם בגויהם ומאלה נפרדו הגוים בארץ אחר המבול
This is from the portion Noach. What it is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham.
The name אביחיל has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 61 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.
