The name Caridad in Hebrew letters is קרידד. 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.
קרידד
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is קרידד. This name comes from Latin: the word caritas means “love for others”. The name honours Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre, the patron of Cuba. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 318 — the same as the Torah word אליעזר, “Eliezer, servant of Abraham”. That number points to Torah page 318 of 354 — in the portion Re'eh. What that portion is about: “See”: blessing and curse; one place of worship; the tithe; permitted food; the three pilgrimage festivals. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Isaiah 47:6. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Caridad” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: קרידד. 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 קרידד gives 318.
318
The number 318 is the Torah word אליעזר — «Eliezer, servant of Abraham» (Genesis 15:2).
And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken perversion against HaShem your G-d, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage, to draw thee aside out of the way which HaShem thy G-d commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.
This is from the portion Re'eh. What it is about: “See”: blessing and curse; one place of worship; the tithe; permitted food; the three pilgrimage festivals.
The same number, 318, is given by these Tanakh names:
Eliezer אליעזר
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) — 318. A Torah word with the same number is אליעזר — “Eliezer, servant of Abraham” (Genesis 15:2).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 12. A Torah word with the same number is הוא — “he, it” (Genesis 2:11).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 57. A Torah word with the same number is מזבח — “altar” (Genesis 8:20).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1465.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 50132.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1342.
The letters that come out are דגמקק — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 247. A Torah word with the same number is מאור — “luminary” (Genesis 1:14).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1584.
The number 318 appears in the classical books 6 times across 6 works. The earliest mention is מדרש לפירושים (~1450?).
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 — 318. 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. קרידד has 5 letters: ק Qof, ר Resh, י Yod, ד Dalet, ד Dalet. The first letter is Qof, the last is Dalet.
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The name קרידד 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 ק and ends with ד. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 5 such verses. The first of them is Isaiah 47:6:
קצפתי על עמי חללתי נחלתי ואתנם בידך לא שמת להם רחמים על זקן הכבדת עלך מאד
«And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken perversion against HaShem your G-d, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage, to draw thee aside out of the way which HaShem thy G-d commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.»
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.
