The name Blaise in Hebrew letters is בלייזה. 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.
בלייזה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is בלייזה. This name probably comes from Latin: the word blaesus means “lisping”. Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician and thinker of the 17th century. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 64 — the same as the Torah word נטה, “to stretch out, pitch”. That number points to Torah page 64 of 354 — in the portion Vayeshev. What that portion is about: Joseph's dreams and his sale by his brothers; Judah and Tamar; Joseph in Potiphar's house and in prison; the dreams of the butler and the baker. 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 בלייזה gives 64.
64
The number 64 is the Torah word נטה — «to stretch out, pitch» (Genesis 12:8).
And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
This is from the portion Vayeshev. What it is about: Joseph's dreams and his sale by his brothers; Judah and Tamar; Joseph in Potiphar's house and in prison; the dreams of the butler and the baker.
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) — 64. A Torah word with the same number is נטה — “to stretch out, pitch” (Genesis 12:8).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 19. A Torah word with the same number is גוי — “nation” (Genesis 10:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 46. A Torah word with the same number is מאה — “hundred” (Genesis 5:3).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 261. A Torah word with the same number is אסר — “to bind, imprison” (Genesis 39:20).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 1178.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 251. A Torah word with the same number is אמרי — “Amorite” (Genesis 10:16).
The letters that come out are שכממעצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 560. A Torah word with the same number is תמנע — “Timna, concubine of Eliphaz” (Genesis 36:12).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 599.
The number 64 appears in the classical books 11 times across 9 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
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 — 64. 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. בלייזה has 6 letters: ב Bet, ל Lamed, י Yod, י Yod, ז Zayin, ה He. The first letter is Bet, the last is He.
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The name בלייזה 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 בלייזה 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 בלייזה has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 64 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.
