The name Balak in Hebrew letters is בלק. 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.
בלק
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is בלק. A Tanakh name: a king of Moab (first in Numbers 22:2; 43 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 132 — the same as the Torah word בלק, “Balak, king of Moab”. That number points to Torah page 132 of 354 — in the portion Mishpatim. What that portion is about: Laws of the servant, damages, theft and pledges; “an eye for an eye” as compensation; the sabbatical year; “we will do and we will hear”. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 22:4. 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 בלק gives 132.
132
The number 132 is the Torah word בלק — «Balak, king of Moab» (Numbers 22:2).
And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he dashed against the altar.
This is from the portion Mishpatim. What it is about: Laws of the servant, damages, theft and pledges; “an eye for an eye” as compensation; the sabbatical year; “we will do and we will hear”.
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) — 132. A Torah word with the same number is בלק — “Balak, king of Moab” (Numbers 22:2).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 6. A Torah word with the same number is בד — “alone, apart” (Genesis 2:18).
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) — 703. A Torah word with the same number is מסגרת — “rim, border” (Exodus 25:25).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 10904.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 166. A Torah word with the same number is עליון — “Most High” (Genesis 14:18).
The letters that come out are שכד — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 324. A Torah word with the same number is כשד — “Kesed, son of Nahor” (Genesis 22:22).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 672. A Torah word with the same number is תעבר — “you shall pass by” (Genesis 18:3).
The number 132 appears in the classical books 3 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is פרי עץ חיים שער ר"ח חנוכה ופורים (~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 — 132. 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. בלק has 3 letters: ב Bet, ל Lamed, ק Qof. The first letter is Bet, the last is Qof.
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The name בלק appears in the Torah as a word 38 times. The first time is Numbers 22:2. Another 2 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 בלק these are ב and ק. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Genesis 22:4:
ביום השלישי וישא אברהם את עיניו וירא את המקום מרחק
This is from the portion Vayera. What it is about: Three visitors at Abraham's tent; the plea for Sodom; the birth of Isaac; the binding of Isaac on Mount Moriah.
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.
