The name Rigoberta in Hebrew letters is ריגוברטה. 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.
ריגוברטה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ריגוברטה. Rigoberta is the female form of Rigoberto, a Germanic name made of ric, “power”, and beraht, “bright”. Rigoberta Menchú from Guatemala won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 435 — the same as the Torah word תלה, “to hang”. That number points to Torah page 81 of 354 — in the portion Vayigash. What that portion is about: Judah pleads for Benjamin; Joseph reveals himself to his brothers; Jacob goes down to Egypt; the family settles in Goshen. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 1:2. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Rigoberta” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: ריגוברטה. 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 ריגוברטה gives 435.
435
The number 435 is the Torah word תלה — «to hang» (Genesis 40:19).
And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'I am Joseph; doth my father yet live?' And his brethren could not answer him; for they were affrighted at his presence.
This is from the portion Vayigash. What it is about: Judah pleads for Benjamin; Joseph reveals himself to his brothers; Jacob goes down to Egypt; the family settles in Goshen.
The same number, 435, is given by these Tanakh names:
Judith יהודית
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) — 435. A Torah word with the same number is תלה — “to hang” (Genesis 40:19).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 30. A Torah word with the same number is כי — “for, because, that” (Genesis 1:4).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 75. A Torah word with the same number is כהן — “priest” (Genesis 14:18).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1735.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 80255.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 2349.
The letters that come out are גמרפשגנצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 766. A Torah word with the same number is ותישים — “and male goats” (Genesis 32:15).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1972.
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 — 435. 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. ריגוברטה has 8 letters: ר Resh, י Yod, ג Gimel, ו Vav, ב Bet, ר Resh, ט Tet, ה He. The first letter is Resh, the last is He.
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The name ריגוברטה 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 ריגוברטה these are ר and ה. The Pentateuch has 10 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 1:2:
ראובן שמעון לוי ויהודה
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: ריגוברטה = 435. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
«And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'I am Joseph; doth my father yet live?' And his brethren could not answer him; for they were affrighted at his presence.»
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.
