The name Louie in Hebrew letters is לאוי. 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.
לאוי
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is לאוי. The name Louie comes from the old Germanic languages: its root, the word Hlodwig, means “famous in battle”. It is a boy's name that is found mostly in Great Britain and in the United States. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 47 — the same as the Torah word אולי, “perhaps”. That number points to Torah page 47 of 354 — in the portion Vayetzei. What that portion is about: The dream of the ladder to heaven; Jacob with Laban: Leah and Rachel; eleven sons are born; the return. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 20:3. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Louie” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: לאוי. 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 לאוי gives 47.
47
The number 47 is the Torah word אולי — «perhaps» (Genesis 16:2).
And he called the name of that place Beth-el, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
This is from the portion Vayetzei. What it is about: The dream of the ladder to heaven; Jacob with Laban: Leah and Rachel; eleven sons are born; the return.
The same number, 47, is given by these Tanakh names:
Joel יואל
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) — 47. A Torah word with the same number is אולי — “perhaps” (Genesis 16:2).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 11. A Torah word with the same number is חג — “festival” (Exodus 10:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 29. A Torah word with the same number is דכה — “crushed” (Deuteronomy 23:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 182. A Torah word with the same number is יעקב — “Jacob, son of Isaac” (Genesis 25:26).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 1037.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 145. A Torah word with the same number is יפנה — “Jephunneh, father of Caleb” (Numbers 13:6).
The letters that come out are כתפמ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 540. A Torah word with the same number is שמר — “to keep, guard” (Genesis 2:15).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 217. A Torah word with the same number is אורי — “Uri, father of Bezalel” (Exodus 31:2).
The number 47 appears in the classical books 6 times across 6 works. The earliest mention is ילקוט שמעוני (~1260).
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 — 47. 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. לאוי has 4 letters: ל Lamed, א Alef, ו Vav, י Yod. The first letter is Lamed, the last is Yod.
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The name לאוי 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 לאוי these are ל and י. The Pentateuch has 26 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 20:3:
לא יהיה לך אלהים אחרים על פני
This is from the portion Yitro. What it is about: Jethro's counsel on judges; standing at Sinai; the Ten Utterances; “you shall not make yourself an idol”.
The name לאוי has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 47 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.
