The name Penina in Hebrew letters is פנינה. 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.
פנינה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is פנינה. A Tanakh name: an Israelite woman (first in 1 Samuel 1:2; 3 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 195 — the same as the Torah word מקנה, “livestock, possession”. That number points to Torah page 195 of 354 — in the portion Achrei Mot. What that portion is about: The service of Yom Kippur: two goats, the lot, the Holy of Holies; the prohibition of blood; the laws of forbidden unions. 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 פנינה gives 195.
195
The number 195 is the Torah word מקנה — «livestock, possession» (Genesis 4:20).
And he shall go out unto the altar that is before HaShem, and make atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about.
This is from the portion Achrei Mot. What it is about: The service of Yom Kippur: two goats, the lot, the Holy of Holies; the prohibition of blood; the laws of forbidden unions.
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) — 195. A Torah word with the same number is מקנה — “livestock, possession” (Genesis 4:20).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 24. A Torah word with the same number is חוי — “Hivite” (Genesis 10:17).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 60. A Torah word with the same number is ילך — “he will go” (Genesis 3:14).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 865.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 11525.
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 וטמטצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 154. A Torah word with the same number is נקד — “speckled” (Genesis 30:32).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 319. A Torah word with the same number is קיטר — “thick smoke” (Genesis 19:28).
The number 195 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 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 — 195. 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. פנינה has 5 letters: פ Pe, נ Nun, י Yod, נ Nun, ה He. The first letter is Pe, the last is He.
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The name פנינה 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 פנינה 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.
«And he shall go out unto the altar that is before HaShem, and make atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about.»
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.
