The name Machla in Hebrew letters is מחלה. 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.
מחלה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מחלה. A Tanakh name: apparently two Israelite women (first in Numbers 26:33; 5 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 83 — the same as the Torah word חלילה, “far be it”. That number points to Torah page 83 of 354 — in the portion Vayigash. What that portion is about: Judah pleads for Benjamin; Joseph reveals himself to his brothers; Jacob goes down to Egypt; the family settles in Goshen. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 7:8. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Machla” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: מחלה. A name from the Tanakh — its Tanakh spelling is used. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
Adding up the letters of the name מחלה gives 83.
83
The number 83 is the Torah word חלילה — «far be it» (Genesis 18:25).
his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
This is from the portion Vayigash. What it is about: Judah pleads for Benjamin; Joseph reveals himself to his brothers; Jacob goes down to Egypt; the family settles in Goshen.
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) — 83. A Torah word with the same number is חלילה — “far be it” (Genesis 18:25).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 20. A Torah word with the same number is היה — “to be, become” (Genesis 1:2).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 38. A Torah word with the same number is גלה — “to uncover” (Genesis 9:21).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 301. A Torah word with the same number is קרא — “to call” (Genesis 1:5).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 2589.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 249. A Torah word with the same number is טרם — “not yet, before” (Genesis 2:5).
The letters that come out are יסכצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 180. A Torah word with the same number is פנים — “face” (Genesis 1:2).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 578. A Torah word with the same number is בעשור — “on the tenth” (Leviticus 16:29).
The number 83 appears in the classical books 8 times across 7 works. The earliest mention is שער הכוונות דרושי חג השבועות דרוש א (~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 — 83. 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. מחלה has 4 letters: מ Mem, ח Chet, ל Lamed, ה He. The first letter is Mem, the last is He.
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The name מחלה appears in the Torah as a word 4 times. The first time is Exodus 15:26. Another 1 time 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 מחלה these are מ and ה. The Pentateuch has 16 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 7:8:
מן הבהמה הטהורה ומן הבהמה אשר איננה טהרה ומן העוף וכל אשר רמש על האדמה
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.
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.
