The name Bavai in Hebrew letters is בוי. 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.
בוי
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is בוי. A Tanakh name: an Israelite (first in Nehemiah 3:18; 1 mention in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 18 — the same as the Torah word חי, “living”. That number points to Torah page 18 of 354 — in the portion Lech Lecha. What that portion is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 19:1. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Bavai” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: בוי. 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 בוי gives 18.
18
The number 18 is the Torah word חי — «living» (Genesis 1:20).
And there was a famine in the land; and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.
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.
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.
with finals and ordinal — 18. A Torah word with the same number is חי — “living” (Genesis 1:20).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 9. A Torah word with the same number is בוא — “to come, enter” (Genesis 2:19).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 79. A Torah word with the same number is עדה — “congregation” (Exodus 12:3).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 140. A Torah word with the same number is מעל — “above” (Genesis 6:16).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 28. A Torah word with the same number is כח — “strength” (Genesis 4:12).
The letters that come out are שפמ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 420. A Torah word with the same number is ענש — “to fine, punish” (Exodus 21:22).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 444. A Torah word with the same number is מקדש — “sanctuary” (Exodus 15:17).
The number 18 appears in the classical books 36 times across 24 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
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 — 18. 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. בוי has 3 letters: ב Bet, ו Vav, י Yod. The first letter is Bet, the last is Yod.
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The name בוי 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 בוי these are ב and י. The Pentateuch has 16 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 19:1:
בחדש השלישי לצאת בני ישראל מארץ מצרים ביום הזה באו מדבר סיני
This is from the portion Yitro. What it is about: Jethro's counsel on judges; standing at Sinai; the Ten Utterances; “you shall not make yourself an idol”.
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.
