The name Lappidoth in Hebrew letters is לפידות. 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.
לפידות
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is לפידות. A Tanakh name: the husband of Deborah (first in Judges 4:4; 1 mention in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 530 — the same as the Torah word שכיר, “hired worker”. That number points to Torah page 176 of 354 — in the portion Tzav. What that portion is about: The fire on the altar is never to go out; the priests' portion; the seven days of consecration of Aaron and his sons. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 45:22. 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 לפידות gives 530.
530
The number 530 is the Torah word שכיר — «hired worker» (Exodus 12:45).
which HaShem commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that they were anointed. It is a due for ever throughout their generations.
This is from the portion Tzav. What it is about: The fire on the altar is never to go out; the priests' portion; the seven days of consecration of Aaron and his sons.
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) — 530. A Torah word with the same number is שכיר — “hired worker” (Exodus 12:45).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 26. A Torah word with the same number is והיה — “and it became” (Genesis 2:10).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 71. A Torah word with the same number is מלא — “to fill” (Genesis 1:22).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2091.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 167452.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1044.
The letters that come out are כומקפא — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 247. A Torah word with the same number is מאור — “luminary” (Genesis 1:14).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1027.
The number 530 appears in the classical books 6 times across 4 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 — 530. 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. לפידות has 6 letters: ל Lamed, פ Pe, י Yod, ד Dalet, ו Vav, ת Tav. The first letter is Lamed, the last is Tav.
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The name לפידות 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 לפידות these are ל and ת. The Pentateuch has 10 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 45:22:
לכלם נתן לאיש חלפות שמלת ולבנימן נתן שלש מאות כסף וחמש חלפת שמלת
This is from the portion Vayigash. What it is about: Judah pleads for Benjamin; Joseph reveals himself to his brothers; Jacob goes down to Egypt; the family settles in Goshen.
The name לפידות has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 530 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.
