The name Ludovico in Hebrew letters is לודוביקו. 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.
לודוביקו
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is לודוביקו. Ludovico is a name of Germanic origin, from “hlud + wig”, which means “famous + battle”. The Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto, author of “Orlando Furioso”, had this name. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 164 — the same as the Torah word מעדן, “delicacy”. That number points to Torah page 164 of 354 — in the portion Pekudei. What that portion is about: The accounting of the materials; the priestly garments are finished; the Tabernacle is raised on the first of Nisan; the cloud covers it. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 23:18. 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 לודוביקו gives 164.
164
The number 164 is the Torah word מעדן — «delicacy» (Genesis 49:20).
And thou shalt anoint the altar of burnt-offering, and all its vessels, and sanctify the altar; and the altar shall be most holy.
This is from the portion Pekudei. What it is about: The accounting of the materials; the priestly garments are finished; the Tabernacle is raised on the first of Nisan; the cloud covers it.
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) — 164. A Torah word with the same number is מעדן — “delicacy” (Genesis 49:20).
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) — 65. A Torah word with the same number is אדני — “my Lord” (Genesis 15:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 831. A Torah word with the same number is לאתת — “for signs” (Genesis 1:14).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 11128.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 580. A Torah word with the same number is שעיר — “hairy; male goat” (Genesis 27:11).
The letters that come out are כפקפשמדפ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 704. A Torah word with the same number is חצרות — “Hazeroth, desert campsite” (Numbers 11:35).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1162.
The number 164 appears in the classical books 1 time across 1 work. The earliest mention is משמרת הקודש.
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 — 164. 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. לודוביקו has 8 letters: ל Lamed, ו Vav, ד Dalet, ו Vav, ב Bet, י Yod, ק Qof, ו Vav. The first letter is Lamed, the last is Vav.
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The name לודוביקו 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 לודוביקו these are ל and ו. The Pentateuch has 28 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 23:18:
לאברהם למקנה לעיני בני חת בכל באי שער עירו
This is from the portion Chayei Sarah. What it is about: Sarah's death and the purchase of the cave of Machpelah; the servant seeks a wife for Isaac; Rebecca at the well; Abraham's death.
The name לודוביקו has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 164 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.
