The name Gaddiel in Hebrew letters is גדיאל. 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.
גדיאל
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is גדיאל. A Tanakh name: an Israelite (first in Numbers 13:10; 1 mention in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 48 — the same as the Torah word יובל, “ram's horn, jubilee”. That number points to Torah page 48 of 354 — in the portion Vayetzei. What that portion is about: The dream of the ladder to heaven; Jacob with Laban: Leah and Rachel; eleven sons are born; the return. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is 2 Samuel 5:2. 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 גדיאל gives 48.
48
The number 48 is the Torah word יובל — «ram's horn, jubilee» (Exodus 19:13).
And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.
This is from the portion Vayetzei. What it is about: The dream of the ladder to heaven; Jacob with Laban: Leah and Rachel; eleven sons are born; the return.
The same number, 48, is given by these Tanakh names:
Yuval יובל
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) — 48. A Torah word with the same number is יובל — “ram's horn, jubilee” (Exodus 19:13).
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) — 30. A Torah word with the same number is כי — “for, because, that” (Genesis 1:4).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 177. A Torah word with the same number is בקעה — “valley, plain” (Genesis 11:2).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 1026.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 93. A Torah word with the same number is צבא — “host, army” (Genesis 2:1).
The letters that come out are רקמתכ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 760.
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 722. A Torah word with the same number is שכבת — “lying, intercourse” (Leviticus 18:20).
The number 48 appears in the classical books 16 times across 11 works. The earliest mention is ספר הפליאה (~1390).
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 — 48. 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. גדיאל has 5 letters: ג Gimel, ד Dalet, י Yod, א Alef, ל Lamed. The first letter is Gimel, the last is Lamed.
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The name גדיאל appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Numbers 13:10.
The verse of your name
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with ג and ends with ל. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 8 such verses. The first of them is 2 Samuel 5:2:
גם אתמול גם שלשום בהיות שאול מלך עלינו אתה הייתה מוציא והמבי את ישראל ויאמר ה׳ לך אתה תרעה את עמי את ישראל ואתה תהיה לנגיד על ישראל
The name גדיאל has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 48 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.
