The name Melvin in Hebrew letters is מלבן. 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.
מלבן
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מלבן. In Hebrew letters the name is spelled like the Tanakh word “a brick kiln” (2 Samuel 12:31). This is a shared spelling, not the origin of the name. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 122 — the same as the Torah word ענב, “grape”. That number points to Torah page 122 of 354 — in the portion Yitro. What that portion is about: Jethro's counsel on judges; standing at Sinai; the Ten Utterances; “you shall not make yourself an idol”. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Numbers 1:3. 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 מלבן gives 122.
122
The number 122 is the Torah word ענב — «grape» (Genesis 40:10).
And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,
This is from the portion Yitro. What it is about: Jethro's counsel on judges; standing at Sinai; the Ten Utterances; “you shall not make yourself an idol”.
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) — 772. A Torah word with the same number is שבעת — “seven” (Genesis 8:10).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 14. A Torah word with the same number is יד — “hand” (Genesis 3:22).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 41. A Torah word with the same number is אם — “if” (Genesis 4:7).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 448. A Torah word with the same number is במות — “Bamoth, place in Moab” (Numbers 21:19).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 5004.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 304. A Torah word with the same number is חרמון — “Mount Hermon” (Deuteronomy 3:8).
The letters that come out are יכשט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 339. A Torah word with the same number is לטש — “to forge, sharpen” (Genesis 4:22).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 672. A Torah word with the same number is תעבר — “you shall pass by” (Genesis 18:3).
The number 122 appears in the classical books 4 times across 4 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
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 — 122. 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. מלבן has 4 letters: מ Mem, ל Lamed, ב Bet, ן final Nun. The first letter is Mem, the last is final Nun.
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The name מלבן 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 מלבן these are מ and נ. The Pentateuch has 4 such verses. The first of them is Numbers 1:3:
מבן עשרים שנה ומעלה כל יצא צבא בישראל תפקדו אתם לצבאתם אתה ואהרן
This is from the portion Bamidbar. What it is about: The census in the desert: 603,550 men; the order of the camps around the Tabernacle; the Levites and their service.
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.
