The name Vadim in Hebrew letters is ואדים. 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.
ואדים
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ואדים. Origin uncertain; the most accepted view sees it as a short form of the Slavic name Vadimir. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 61 — the same as the Torah word אני, “I”. That number points to Torah page 61 of 354 — in the portion Vayishlach. What that portion is about: Wrestling with the angel and the name Israel; the meeting with Esau; Dinah in Shechem; the birth of Benjamin and Rachel's death. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 1:2. 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 ואדים gives 61.
61
The number 61 is the Torah word אני — «I» (Genesis 6:17).
And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the mid-wife said unto her: 'Fear not; for this also is a son for thee.'
This is from the portion Vayishlach. What it is about: Wrestling with the angel and the name Israel; the meeting with Esau; Dinah in Shechem; the birth of Benjamin and Rachel's death.
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) — 621. A Torah word with the same number is ראיתי — “I have seen” (Genesis 7:1).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 16. A Torah word with the same number is אחז — “to seize” (Genesis 22:13).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 34. A Torah word with the same number is לבב — “heart” (Genesis 20:5).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 232. A Torah word with the same number is בכרי — “Becherite” (Numbers 26:35).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 1753.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 106. A Torah word with the same number is נון — “Nun, father of Joshua” (Exodus 33:11).
The letters that come out are פתקמי — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 630. A Torah word with the same number is שלש — “three” (Genesis 50:23).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 657. A Torah word with the same number is ותרומה — “and a contribution” (Exodus 29:28).
The number 61 appears in the classical books 18 times across 11 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 — 61. 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. ואדים has 5 letters: ו Vav, א Alef, ד Dalet, י Yod, ם final Mem. The first letter is Vav, the last is final Mem.
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The name ואדים 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 ואדים these are ו and מ. The Pentateuch has 780 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 1:2:
והארץ היתה תהו ובהו וחשך על פני תהום ורוח אלהים מרחפת על פני המים
This is from the portion Bereshit. What it is about: Creation in six days and the Sabbath; Adam and Eve in the garden; Cain and Abel; ten generations to Noah.
The name ואדים has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 61 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.
