The name Madelaine in Hebrew letters is מדלאיינה. 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.
מדלאיינה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מדלאיינה. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 150 — the same as the Torah word יסף, “to add”. That number points to Torah page 150 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 Genesis 7:8. 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 מדלאיינה gives 150.
150
The number 150 is the Torah word יסף — «to add» (Genesis 4:2).
And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, all the people rose up and worshipped, every man at his tent door.
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) — 150. A Torah word with the same number is יסף — “to add” (Genesis 4:2).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 24. A Torah word with the same number is חוי — “Hivite” (Genesis 10:17).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 69. A Torah word with the same number is אביון — “poor, needy” (Exodus 23:6).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 581. A Torah word with the same number is המקלות — “the rods” (Genesis 30:37).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 5242.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 708.
The letters that come out are יקכתממטצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 709. A Torah word with the same number is קטרת — “incense” (Exodus 25:6).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 851. A Torah word with the same number is אתנת — “female donkeys” (Genesis 32:16).
The number 150 appears in the classical books 19 times across 15 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
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 — 150. 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. מדלאיינה has 8 letters: מ Mem, ד Dalet, ל Lamed, א Alef, י Yod, י Yod, נ Nun, ה He. The first letter is Mem, the last is He.
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The name מדלאיינה 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 מדלאיינה these are מ and ה. The Pentateuch has 16 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 7:8:
מן הבהמה הטהורה ומן הבהמה אשר איננה טהרה ומן העוף וכל אשר רמש על האדמה
This is from the portion Noach. What it is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham.
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: מדלאיינה = 150. 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.
