The name Yigal in Hebrew letters is יגאל. 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.
יגאל
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is יגאל. A Tanakh name: the name of three Israelites (first in Numbers 13:7; 3 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 44 — the same as the Torah word ילד, “to bear, give birth”. That number points to Torah page 44 of 354 — in the portion Toldot. What that portion is about: The birth of Esau and Jacob; the birthright sold for lentil stew; Isaac's wells; Jacob receives the blessing. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Deuteronomy 1:38. 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 יגאל gives 44.
44
The number 44 is the Torah word ילד — «to bear, give birth» (Genesis 3:16).
And he came unto his father, and said: 'My father'; and he said: 'Here am I; who art thou, my son?'
This is from the portion Toldot. What it is about: The birth of Esau and Jacob; the birthright sold for lentil stew; Isaac's wells; Jacob receives the blessing.
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) — 44. A Torah word with the same number is ילד — “to bear, give birth” (Genesis 3:16).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 8. A Torah word with the same number is אהב — “to love” (Genesis 22:2).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 26. A Torah word with the same number is והיה — “and it became” (Genesis 2:10).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 167. A Torah word with the same number is פנואל — “Penuel, place by the Jabbok” (Genesis 32:31).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 1010. A Torah word with the same number is יתרת — “lobe of the liver” (Exodus 29:13).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 81. A Torah word with the same number is אנכי — “I” (Genesis 3:10).
The letters that come out are מרתכ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 660. A Torah word with the same number is מצנפת — “turban” (Exodus 28:4).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 288. A Torah word with the same number is פרח — “to bud, blossom” (Genesis 40:10).
The number 44 appears in the classical books 21 times across 13 works. The earliest mention is מנורת המאור (אבוהב) (~1400).
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 — 44. 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. יגאל has 4 letters: י Yod, ג Gimel, א Alef, ל Lamed. The first letter is Yod, the last is Lamed.
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The name יגאל appears in the Torah as a word 12 times. The first time is Lévitique 25:30.
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 יגאל these are י and ל. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Deuteronomy 1:38:
יהושע בן נון העמד לפניך הוא יבא שמה אתו חזק כי הוא ינחלנה את ישראל
This is from the portion Devarim. What it is about: Moses begins his address in the plains of Moab: judges, spies, forty years of wandering, the victories over Sihon and Og.
The name יגאל has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 44 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.
