The name Eldad in Hebrew letters is אלדד. 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.
אלדד
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אלדד. A Tanakh name: the name of an Israelite (first in Numbers 11:26; 2 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “God has loved”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 39 — the same as the Torah word גאלה, “redemption”. That number points to Torah page 39 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 15:1. 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 אלדד gives 39.
39
The number 39 is the Torah word גאלה — «redemption» (Leviticus 25:24).
And she said unto the servant: 'What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us?' And the servant said: 'It is my master.' And she took her veil, and covered herself.
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) — 39. A Torah word with the same number is גאלה — “redemption” (Leviticus 25:24).
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) — 21. A Torah word with the same number is אך — “only, surely” (Genesis 7:23).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 126.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 933.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 106. A Torah word with the same number is נון — “Nun, father of Joshua” (Exodus 33:11).
The letters that come out are תכקק — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 620. A Torah word with the same number is עשרים — “twenty” (Genesis 6:3).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1053.
The number 39 appears in the classical books 15 times across 12 works. The earliest mention is פרי עץ חיים (~1573).
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 — 39. 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. אלדד has 4 letters: א Alef, ל Lamed, ד Dalet, ד Dalet. The first letter is Alef, the last is Dalet.
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The name אלדד appears in the Torah as a word 2 times. The first time is Numbers 11:26.
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 אלדד these are א and ד. The Pentateuch has 3 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 15:1:
אחר הדברים האלה היה דבר ה׳ אל אברם במחזה לאמר אל תירא אברם אנכי מגן לך שכרך הרבה מאד
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 אלדד has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 39 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.
