The name Igdaliah in Hebrew letters is יגדליהו. 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.
יגדליהו
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is יגדליהו. A Tanakh name: an Israelite (first in Jeremiah 35:4; 1 mention in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “magnified by God”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 68 — the same as the Torah word חלל, “to begin”. That number points to Torah page 68 of 354 — in the portion Vayeshev. What that portion is about: Joseph's dreams and his sale by his brothers; Judah and Tamar; Joseph in Potiphar's house and in prison; the dreams of the butler and the baker. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 9:27. 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 יגדליהו gives 68.
68
The number 68 is the Torah word חלל — «to begin» (Genesis 4:26).
And Joseph found favour in his sight, and he ministered unto him. And he appointed him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
This is from the portion Vayeshev. What it is about: Joseph's dreams and his sale by his brothers; Judah and Tamar; Joseph in Potiphar's house and in prison; the dreams of the butler and the baker.
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) — 68. A Torah word with the same number is חלל — “to begin” (Genesis 4:26).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 23.
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 50. A Torah word with the same number is כל — “all, every” (Genesis 1:21).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 267. A Torah word with the same number is נזיר — “set apart, Nazirite” (Genesis 49:26).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 1186.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 274. A Torah word with the same number is עדר — “flock, herd” (Genesis 29:2).
The letters that come out are מרקכמצפ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 570. A Torah word with the same number is עשר — “ten” (Genesis 5:8).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 649. A Torah word with the same number is תרדמה — “deep sleep” (Genesis 2:21).
The number 68 appears in the classical books 55 times across 26 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 — 68. 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. יגדליהו has 7 letters: י Yod, ג Gimel, ד Dalet, ל Lamed, י Yod, ה He, ו Vav. The first letter is Yod, the last is Vav.
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The name יגדליהו 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 יגדליהו these are י and ו. The Pentateuch has 7 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 9:27:
יפת אלהים ליפת וישכן באהלי שם ויהי כנען עבד למו
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.
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: יגדליהו = 68. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
«And Joseph found favour in his sight, and he ministered unto him. And he appointed him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.»
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.
