The name Balbina in Hebrew letters is בלבינה. 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.
בלבינה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is בלבינה. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 99 — the same as the Torah word טמן, “to hide”. That number points to Torah page 99 of 354 — in the portion Shemot. What that portion is about: Slavery in Egypt; Moses in the basket on the Nile; the burning bush and the Name; the first audience with Pharaoh. 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 בלבינה gives 99.
99
The number 99 is the Torah word טמן — «to hide» (Genesis 35:4).
There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us: Make brick; and, behold, thy servants are beaten, but the fault is in thine own people.'
This is from the portion Shemot. What it is about: Slavery in Egypt; Moses in the basket on the Nile; the burning bush and the Name; the first audience with Pharaoh.
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) — 99. A Torah word with the same number is טמן — “to hide” (Genesis 35:4).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 18. A Torah word with the same number is חי — “living” (Genesis 1:20).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 45. A Torah word with the same number is מה — “what” (Genesis 2:19).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 376. A Torah word with the same number is עשו — “Esau, son of Isaac” (Genesis 25:25).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 3533.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 305. A Torah word with the same number is שה — “lamb, sheep” (Genesis 22:7).
The letters that come out are שכשמטצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 759. A Torah word with the same number is והשלחתי — “and I will send” (Leviticus 26:22).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1030.
The number 99 appears in the classical books 3 times across 3 works. The earliest mention is בן יהוידע (~1900).
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 — 99. 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. בלבינה has 6 letters: ב Bet, ל Lamed, ב Bet, י Yod, נ Nun, ה He. The first letter is Bet, the last is He.
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The name בלבינה 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 בלבינה 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.
The name בלבינה has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 99 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.
