The name Melissa in Hebrew letters is מליססה. 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.
מליססה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מליססה. A name of Greek origin, from the word melissa, meaning “bee”. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 205 — the same as the Torah word הר, “mountain”. That number points to Torah page 205 of 354 — in the portion Emor. What that portion is about: Laws of the priests; animals without blemish; the calendar of festivals — from the Sabbath to Sukkot; the lamp and the showbread. 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 “Melissa” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: מליססה. 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 מליססה gives 205.
205
The number 205 is the Torah word הר — «mountain» (Genesis 7:19).
Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scabbed, or scurvy, ye shall not offer these unto HaShem, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto HaShem.
This is from the portion Emor. What it is about: Laws of the priests; animals without blemish; the calendar of festivals — from the Sabbath to Sukkot; the lamp and the showbread.
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) — 205. A Torah word with the same number is הר — “mountain” (Genesis 7:19).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 25. A Torah word with the same number is כה — “thus, so” (Genesis 15:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 70. A Torah word with the same number is כן — “so, thus” (Genesis 1:7).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 830. A Torah word with the same number is יששכר — “Issachar, son of Jacob” (Genesis 30:18).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 9825.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 735. A Torah word with the same number is המערכת — “the row” (Leviticus 24:6).
The letters that come out are יכמחחצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 176. A Torah word with the same number is פוץ — “to scatter” (Genesis 10:18).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 420. A Torah word with the same number is ענש — “to fine, punish” (Exodus 21:22).
The number 205 appears in the classical books 8 times across 5 works. The earliest mention is פרי עץ חיים שער תפילות ראש השנה (~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 — 205. 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. מליססה has 6 letters: מ Mem, ל Lamed, י Yod, ס Samekh, ס Samekh, ה He. The first letter is Mem, the last is He.
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The name מליססה 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 מליססה 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.
The name מליססה has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 205 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.
