The name Gaelle in Hebrew letters is גאל. 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.
גאל
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is גאל. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 34 — the same as the Torah word לבב, “heart”. That number points to Torah page 34 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 2 Samuel 5:2. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Gaelle” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: גאל. 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 גאל gives 34.
34
The number 34 is the Torah word לבב — «heart» (Genesis 20:5).
And Sarah died in Kiriatharba--the same is Hebron--in the land of Canaan; and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
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) — 34. A Torah word with the same number is לבב — “heart” (Genesis 20:5).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 7. A Torah word with the same number is או — “or” (Genesis 24:49).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 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) — 112. A Torah word with the same number is יבק — “Jabbok river” (Genesis 32:23).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 910. A Torah word with the same number is מתכנת — “quota, measure” (Exodus 5:8).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 41. A Torah word with the same number is אם — “if” (Genesis 4:7).
The letters that come out are רתכ — 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) — 268. A Torah word with the same number is חסר — “to lack, decrease” (Genesis 8:3).
The number 34 appears in the classical books 26 times across 13 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~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 — 34. 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. גאל has 3 letters: ג Gimel, א Alef, ל Lamed. The first letter is Gimel, the last is Lamed.
For an engraving, a sign or a tattoo, show the spelling to someone who reads Hebrew: transliterating a name is a choice, not the only option.
The name גאל appears in the Torah as a word 13 times. The first time is Genesis 48:16. Another 3 times it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
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 גאל has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 34 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.
