The name Baana in Hebrew letters is בענא. 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.
בענא
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is בענא. A Tanakh name: the name of four Israelites (first in 1 Kings 4:12; 3 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 123. That number points to Torah page 123 of 354 — in the portion Yitro. What that portion is about: Jethro's counsel on judges; standing at Sinai; the Ten Utterances; “you shall not make yourself an idol”. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Numbers 1:42. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Baana” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: בענא. 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.
Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee; for the thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.
This is from the portion Yitro. What it is about: Jethro's counsel on judges; standing at Sinai; the Ten Utterances; “you shall not make yourself an idol”.
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) — 123.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 15. A Torah word with the same number is זוב — “to flow” (Exodus 3:8).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 33. A Torah word with the same number is גל — “heap of stones” (Genesis 31:46).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 524. A Torah word with the same number is עתדים — “male goats” (Numbers 7:29).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 7405.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 319. A Torah word with the same number is קיטר — “thick smoke” (Genesis 19:28).
The letters that come out are שזטת — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 716. A Torah word with the same number is ושתי — “and two” (Genesis 19:30).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 759. A Torah word with the same number is והשלחתי — “and I will send” (Leviticus 26:22).
The number 123 appears in the classical books 6 times across 6 works. The earliest mention is עץ חיים (~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 — 123. 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. בענא has 4 letters: ב Bet, ע Ayin, נ Nun, א Alef. The first letter is Bet, the last is Alef.
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The name בענא 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 בענא these are ב and א. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Numbers 1:42:
בני נפתלי תולדתם למשפחתם לבית אבתם במספר שמת מבן עשרים שנה ומעלה כל יצא צבא
This is from the portion Bamidbar. What it is about: The census in the desert: 603,550 men; the order of the camps around the Tabernacle; the Levites and their service.
«Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee; for the thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.»
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.
