The name Felisa in Hebrew letters is פליסה. 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.
פליסה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is פליסה. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 185 — the same as the Torah word פנימה, “inside, inward”. That number points to Torah page 185 of 354 — in the portion Tazria. What that portion is about: The woman after childbirth; the laws of tzaraat on skin and garments — the signs and the priest's inspection. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 49:4. 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 פליסה gives 185.
185
The number 185 is the Torah word פנימה — «inside, inward» (Leviticus 10:18).
But if the scab spread abroad in the skin, after that he hath shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again.
This is from the portion Tazria. What it is about: The woman after childbirth; the laws of tzaraat on skin and garments — the signs and the priest's inspection.
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) — 185. A Torah word with the same number is פנימה — “inside, inward” (Leviticus 10:18).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 23.
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 835. A Torah word with the same number is תהלת — “praises” (Exodus 15:11).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 11025.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 675. A Torah word with the same number is הסירת — “the pots” (Exodus 38:3).
The letters that come out are וכמחצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 164. A Torah word with the same number is מעדן — “delicacy” (Genesis 49:20).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 301. A Torah word with the same number is קרא — “to call” (Genesis 1:5).
The number 185 appears in the classical books 13 times across 7 works. The earliest mention is דרושי שער הכוונות (~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 — 185. 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. פליסה has 5 letters: פ Pe, ל Lamed, י Yod, ס Samekh, ה He. The first letter is Pe, the last is He.
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The name פליסה 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 פליסה these are פ and ה. The Pentateuch has 17 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 49:4:
פחז כמים אל תותר כי עלית משכבי אביך אז חללת יצועי עלה
This is from the portion Vayechi. What it is about: Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh and all his sons; Jacob's death and burial in Hebron; Joseph's death.
«But if the scab spread abroad in the skin, after that he hath shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again.»
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.
