The name Ichabod in Hebrew letters is אי. 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.
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In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אי. A Tanakh name: a son of Phinehas (first in 1 Samuel 4:21; 3 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 11 — the same as the Torah word חג, “festival”. That number points to Torah page 11 of 354 — in the portion Noach. What that portion is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 15:19. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Ichabod” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: אי. 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 אי gives 11.
11
The number 11 is the Torah word חג — «festival» (Exodus 10:9).
they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird of every sort.
This is from the portion Noach. What it is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham.
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 — 11. A Torah word with the same number is חג — “festival” (Exodus 10:9).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 2.
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 56. A Torah word with the same number is יום — “day” (Genesis 1:5).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 101. A Torah word with the same number is יצא — “to go out” (Genesis 1:12).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 12. A Torah word with the same number is הוא — “he, it” (Genesis 2:11).
The letters that come out are תמ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 440. A Torah word with the same number is שמנים — “eighty” (Genesis 5:25).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 131. A Torah word with the same number is מצא — “to find” (Genesis 2:20).
The number 11 appears in the classical books 14 times across 10 works. The earliest mention is מדרש לפירושים (~1450?).
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 — 11. 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. אי has 2 letters: א Alef, י Yod. The first letter is Alef, the last is Yod.
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The name אי appears in the Torah as a word 3 times. The first time is Genesis 4:9.
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 אי these are א and י. The Pentateuch has 17 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 15:19:
את הקיני ואת הקנזי ואת הקדמני
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.
«they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird of every sort.»
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.
