The name Didier in Hebrew letters is דידייה. 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.
דידייה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is דידייה. The name Didier comes from Latin desiderius, “longed for”. It is the French form of Desiderius. Saint Didier was bishop of Vienne in France around the year 600. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 43 — the same as the Torah word גם, “also”. That number points to Torah page 43 of 354 — in the portion Toldot. What that portion is about: The birth of Esau and Jacob; the birthright sold for lentil stew; Isaac's wells; Jacob receives the blessing. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Leviticus 4:2. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Didier” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: דידייה. 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 דידייה gives 43.
43
The number 43 is the Torah word גם — «also» (Genesis 3:6).
And when Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
This is from the portion Toldot. What it is about: The birth of Esau and Jacob; the birthright sold for lentil stew; Isaac's wells; Jacob receives the blessing.
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 — 43. A Torah word with the same number is גם — “also” (Genesis 3:6).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 16. A Torah word with the same number is אחז — “to seize” (Genesis 22:13).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 200. A Torah word with the same number is כנעני — “Canaanite” (Genesis 10:18).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 357. A Torah word with the same number is אנוש — “Enosh, son of Seth” (Genesis 4:26).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 145. A Torah word with the same number is יפנה — “Jephunneh, father of Caleb” (Numbers 13:6).
The letters that come out are קמקממצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 410. A Torah word with the same number is שמע — “to hear” (Genesis 3:8).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 934.
The number 43 appears in the classical books 13 times across 13 works. The earliest mention is כל בו (~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 — 43. 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. דידייה has 6 letters: ד Dalet, י Yod, ד Dalet, י Yod, י Yod, ה He. The first letter is Dalet, the last is He.
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The name דידייה 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 דידייה these are ד and ה. The Pentateuch has 9 such verses. The first of them is Leviticus 4:2:
דבר אל בני ישראל לאמר נפש כי תחטא בשגגה מכל מצות ה׳ אשר לא תעשינה ועשה מאחת מהנה
This is from the portion Vayikra. What it is about: “And He called”: the burnt, grain, peace, sin and guilt offerings — the order of the sacrifices.
The name דידייה has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 43 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.
