The name Lorraine in Hebrew letters is לוראינה. 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.
לוראינה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is לוראינה. Lorraine is a name of French origin, from “Lorraine”, which means “a region in eastern France”. The region itself was named after the medieval king Lothair. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 302 — the same as the Torah word קרב, “to draw near”. That number points to Torah page 302 of 354 — in the portion Vaetchanan. What that portion is about: Moses pleads to enter the land; the Ten Utterances repeated; “Hear, O Israel”; the warning against forgetting. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 49:18. 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 לוראינה gives 302.
302
The number 302 is the Torah word קרב — «to draw near» (Genesis 12:11).
these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke unto the children of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt;
This is from the portion Vaetchanan. What it is about: Moses pleads to enter the land; the Ten Utterances repeated; “Hear, O Israel”; the warning against forgetting.
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) — 302. A Torah word with the same number is קרב — “to draw near” (Genesis 12:11).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 23.
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 68. A Torah word with the same number is חלל — “to begin” (Genesis 4:26).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1187.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 43562.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1385.
The letters that come out are כפגתמטצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 642. A Torah word with the same number is ברכתך — “your blessing” (Genesis 27:35).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 839.
The number 302 appears in the classical books 1 time across 1 work. 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 — 302. 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. לוראינה has 7 letters: ל Lamed, ו Vav, ר Resh, א Alef, י Yod, נ Nun, ה He. The first letter is Lamed, the last is He.
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The name לוראינה 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 לוראינה these are ל and ה. The Pentateuch has 27 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 49:18:
לישועתך קויתי ה׳
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.
The name לוראינה has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 302 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.
