The name Guido in Hebrew letters is גידו. 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.
גידו
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is גידו. Guido is the Italian form of the Germanic name Wido, probably from “witu”, which means “wood, forest”. The monk Guido of Arezzo shaped written music notes in the 11th century. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 23. That number points to Torah page 23 of 354 — in the portion Lech Lecha. What that portion is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 49:9. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Guido” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: גידו. 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.
And she called the name of HaShem that spoke unto her, Thou art a G-d of seeing; for she said: 'Have I even here seen Him that seeth Me?'
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.
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 — 23.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 14. A Torah word with the same number is יד — “hand” (Genesis 3:22).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 92. A Torah word with the same number is מאומה — “anything” (Genesis 22:12).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 161. A Torah word with the same number is מנוסה — “flight” (Leviticus 26:36).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 56. A Torah word with the same number is יום — “day” (Genesis 1:5).
The letters that come out are רמקפ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 420. A Torah word with the same number is ענש — “to fine, punish” (Exodus 21:22).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 549. A Torah word with the same number is ומגרש — “and pastureland” (Numbers 35:2).
The number 23 appears in the classical books 5 times across 5 works. The earliest mention is 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 — 23. 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. גידו has 4 letters: ג Gimel, י Yod, ד Dalet, ו Vav. The first letter is Gimel, the last is Vav.
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The name גידו 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 גידו these are ג and ו. The Pentateuch has 3 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 49:9:
גור אריה יהודה מטרף בני עלית כרע רבץ כאריה וכלביא מי יקימנו
This is from the portion Vayechi. What it is about: Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh and all his sons; Jacob's death and burial in Hebron; Joseph's death.
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.
