The name London in Hebrew letters is לונדון. 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.
לונדון
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is לונדון. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 146 — the same as the Torah word קום, “to arise”. That number points to Torah page 146 of 354 — in the portion Ki Tisa. What that portion is about: The half-shekel for the census; the golden calf and the broken tablets; the thirteen attributes of mercy; the second tablets. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 5:7. 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 לונדון gives 146.
146
The number 146 is the Torah word קום — «to arise» (Genesis 4:8).
'See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;
This is from the portion Ki Tisa. What it is about: The half-shekel for the census; the golden calf and the broken tablets; the thirteen attributes of mercy; the second tablets.
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) — 796. A Torah word with the same number is בחצצרות — “with trumpets” (Numbers 10:8).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 29. A Torah word with the same number is דכה — “crushed” (Deuteronomy 23:2).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 56. A Torah word with the same number is יום — “day” (Genesis 1:5).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 547. A Torah word with the same number is משזר — “finely twisted” (Exodus 26:1).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 5988.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 484. A Torah word with the same number is עתיד — “ready; things to come” (Deuteronomy 32:35).
The letters that come out are כפטקפט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 298. A Torah word with the same number is רחץ — “to wash” (Genesis 18:4).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 744. A Torah word with the same number is שותלח — “Shuthelah, son of Ephraim” (Numbers 26:35).
The number 146 appears in the classical books 9 times across 5 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
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 — 146. 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. לונדון has 6 letters: ל Lamed, ו Vav, נ Nun, ד Dalet, ו Vav, ן final Nun. The first letter is Lamed, the last is final Nun.
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The name לונדון 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 לונדון these are ל and נ. The Pentateuch has 10 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 5:7:
לא תאספון לתת תבן לעם ללבן הלבנים כתמול שלשם הם ילכו וקששו להם תבן
This is from the portion Shemot. What it is about: Slavery in Egypt; Moses in the basket on the Nile; the burning bush and the Name; the first audience with Pharaoh.
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: לונדון = 146. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
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.
