The name Ada in Hebrew letters is עדה. 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.
עדה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is עדה. A Tanakh name: the name of two women (first in Genesis 4:19; 8 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “ornament”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 79 — the same as the Torah word עדה, “congregation”. That number points to Torah page 79 of 354 — in the portion Miketz. What that portion is about: Pharaoh's dreams of seven cows and seven ears; Joseph rules Egypt; the brothers come for grain; the cup in Benjamin's sack. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 31:52. 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 עדה gives 79.
79
The number 79 is the Torah word עדה — «congregation» (Exodus 12:3).
And when they were gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward: 'Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them: Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?
This is from the portion Miketz. What it is about: Pharaoh's dreams of seven cows and seven ears; Joseph rules Egypt; the brothers come for grain; the cup in Benjamin's sack.
The same number, 79, is given by these Tanakh names:
Boaz בעז
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) — 79. A Torah word with the same number is עדה — “congregation” (Exodus 12:3).
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) — 25. A Torah word with the same number is כה — “thus, so” (Genesis 15:5).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 350. A Torah word with the same number is עפר — “dust” (Genesis 2:7).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 4941.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 223. A Torah word with the same number is חירה — “Hirah the Adullamite” (Genesis 38:1).
The letters that come out are זקצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 197. A Torah word with the same number is בקצה — “at the edge” (Genesis 23:9).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 570. A Torah word with the same number is עשר — “ten” (Genesis 5:8).
The number 79 appears in the classical books 7 times across 5 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
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The number of the day, every morning
Every date has a number too. Once a year it will match the number of your name — 79. 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. עדה has 3 letters: ע Ayin, ד Dalet, ה He. The first letter is Ayin, the last is He.
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The name עדה appears in the Torah as a word 9 times. The first time is Genesis 4:19. Another 70 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 עדה these are ע and ה. The Pentateuch has 17 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 31:52:
עד הגל הזה ועדה המצבה אם אני לא אעבר אליך את הגל הזה ואם אתה לא תעבר אלי את הגל הזה ואת המצבה הזאת לרעה
This is from the portion Vayetzei. What it is about: The dream of the ladder to heaven; Jacob with Laban: Leah and Rachel; eleven sons are born; the return.
«And when they were gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward: 'Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them: Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?»
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.
