The name Mabel in Hebrew letters is מבל. 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.
מבל
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מבל. Mabel is a name of Latin origin, from “amabilis”, which means “lovable”. It was used in medieval England and became popular again in the 19th century. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 72 — the same as the Torah word חסד, “kindness, mercy”. That number points to Torah page 72 of 354 — in the portion Miketz. What that portion is about: Pharaoh's dreams of seven cows and seven ears; Joseph rules Egypt; the brothers come for grain; the cup in Benjamin's sack. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Numbers 6:3. 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 מבל gives 72.
72
The number 72 is the Torah word חסד — «kindness, mercy» (Genesis 19:19).
And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up upon one stalk, full and good.
This is from the portion Miketz. What it is about: Pharaoh's dreams of seven cows and seven ears; Joseph rules Egypt; the brothers come for grain; the cup in Benjamin's sack.
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) — 72. A Torah word with the same number is חסד — “kindness, mercy” (Genesis 19:19).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 9. A Torah word with the same number is בוא — “to come, enter” (Genesis 2:19).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 27. A Torah word with the same number is בכה — “to weep” (Genesis 21:16).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 253. A Torah word with the same number is אבירם — “Abiram, son of Eliab” (Numbers 16:1).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 2504.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 154. A Torah word with the same number is נקד — “speckled” (Genesis 30:32).
The letters that come out are ישכ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 330. A Torah word with the same number is צמר — “wool” (Leviticus 13:47).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 566. A Torah word with the same number is ישרון — “Jeshurun, name of Israel” (Deuteronomy 32:15).
The number 72 appears in the classical books 110 times across 51 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 — 72. 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. מבל has 3 letters: מ Mem, ב Bet, ל Lamed. The first letter is Mem, the last is Lamed.
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The name מבל 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 מבל these are מ and ל. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Numbers 6:3:
מיין ושכר יזיר חמץ יין וחמץ שכר לא ישתה וכל משרת ענבים לא ישתה וענבים לחים ויבשים לא יאכל
This is from the portion Naso. What it is about: The sotah — the test of the wife; the nazirite; the priestly blessing; the gifts of the tribal chiefs for the dedication of the altar.
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.
