The name Bachana in Hebrew letters is בצ׳אנה. 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.
בצ׳אנה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is בצ׳אנה. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 148 — the same as the Torah word פסח, “Passover”. That number points to Torah page 148 of 354 — in the portion Ki Tisa. What that portion is about: The half-shekel for the census; the golden calf and the broken tablets; the thirteen attributes of mercy; the second tablets. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 7:13. 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 בצ׳אנה gives 148.
148
The number 148 is the Torah word פסח — «Passover» (Exodus 12:11).
And HaShem repented of the evil which He said He would do unto His people.
This is from the portion Ki Tisa. What it is about: The half-shekel for the census; the golden calf and the broken tablets; the thirteen attributes of mercy; the second tablets.
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) — 148. A Torah word with the same number is פסח — “Passover” (Exodus 12:11).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 22. A Torah word with the same number is יחד — “together” (Genesis 13:6).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 40. A Torah word with the same number is חלב — “fat” (Genesis 4:4).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 709. A Torah word with the same number is קטרת — “incense” (Exodus 25:6).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 10630.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 478. A Torah word with the same number is חצרעינן — “Hazar-enan” (Numbers 34:9).
The letters that come out are שהתטצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 804. A Torah word with the same number is תשמטנה — “you shall let it rest” (Exodus 23:11).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 739. A Torah word with the same number is למסגרתו — “for its rim” (Exodus 25:25).
The number 148 appears in the classical books 15 times across 8 works. The earliest mention is ספר הפליאה (~1390).
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 — 148. 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. בצ׳אנה has 5 letters: ב Bet, צ Tsadi, א Alef, נ Nun, ה He. The first letter is Bet, the last is He.
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The name בצ׳אנה 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 בצ׳אנה these are ב and ה. The Pentateuch has 16 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 7:13:
בעצם היום הזה בא נח ושם וחם ויפת בני נח ואשת נח ושלשת נשי בניו אתם אל התבה
This is from the portion Noach. What it is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham.
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: בצ׳אנה = 148. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
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.
