The name Tova in Hebrew letters is טובה. 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.
טובה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is טובה. This name comes from Hebrew. Its source is the word or name tov, which means “good”; today it is mostly found in Israel. This is its original Hebrew spelling. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 22 — the same as the Torah word יחד, “together”. That number points to Torah page 22 of 354 — in the portion Lech Lecha. What that portion is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 19:4. 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 טובה gives 22.
22
The number 22 is the Torah word יחד — «together» (Genesis 13:6).
And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and there was thick darkness, behold a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces.
This is from the portion Lech Lecha. What it is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision.
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.
with finals, reduced and ordinal — 22. A Torah word with the same number is יחד — “together” (Genesis 13:6).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 84. A Torah word with the same number is ידע — “to know” (Genesis 3:5).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 146. A Torah word with the same number is קום — “to arise” (Genesis 4:8).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 63. A Torah word with the same number is חנה — “to encamp” (Genesis 26:17).
The letters that come out are נפשצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 520. A Torah word with the same number is שכר — “wages, reward” (Genesis 15:1).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 849. A Torah word with the same number is אמתחת — “sack” (Genesis 42:27).
The number 22 appears in the classical books 22 times across 16 works. The earliest mention is דרושי שער הכוונות (~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 — 22. 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. טובה has 4 letters: ט Tet, ו Vav, ב Bet, ה He. The first letter is Tet, the last is He.
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The name טובה appears in the Torah as a word 8 times. The first time is Genesis 15:15. Another 9 times it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
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 טובה these are ט and ה. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 19:4:
טרם ישכבו ואנשי העיר אנשי סדם נסבו על הבית מנער ועד זקן כל העם מקצה
This is from the portion Vayera. What it is about: Three visitors at Abraham's tent; the plea for Sodom; the birth of Isaac; the binding of Isaac on Mount Moriah.
«And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and there was thick darkness, behold a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces.»
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.
