The name Ulysses in Hebrew letters is יוליסס. 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.
יוליסס
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is יוליסס. This name comes from Latin. Its source is the word or name Ulixes, the Latin form of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's poem; today it is mostly found in the United States, and it was borne by the US president Ulysses S. Grant. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 176 — the same as the Torah word פוץ, “to scatter”. That number points to Torah page 176 of 354 — in the portion Tzav. What that portion is about: The fire on the altar is never to go out; the priests' portion; the seven days of consecration of Aaron and his sons. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Proverbs 12:24. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Ulysses” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: יוליסס. 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 יוליסס gives 176.
176
The number 176 is the Torah word פוץ — «to scatter» (Genesis 10:18).
which HaShem commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that they were anointed. It is a due for ever throughout their generations.
This is from the portion Tzav. What it is about: The fire on the altar is never to go out; the priests' portion; the seven days of consecration of Aaron and his sons.
The same number, 176, is given by these Tanakh names:
Amos עמוס
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) — 176. A Torah word with the same number is פוץ — “to scatter” (Genesis 10:18).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 23.
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 68. A Torah word with the same number is חלל — “to begin” (Genesis 4:26).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 746. A Torah word with the same number is שמות — “names” (Genesis 2:20).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 8336.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 420. A Torah word with the same number is ענש — “to fine, punish” (Exodus 21:22).
The letters that come out are מפכמחח — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 196. A Torah word with the same number is קוץ — “to loathe, thorn” (Genesis 27:46).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 366. A Torah word with the same number is חשבון — “Heshbon, city of Sihon” (Numbers 21:25).
The number 176 appears in the classical books 8 times across 5 works. The earliest mention is עץ חיים (~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 — 176. 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. יוליסס has 6 letters: י Yod, ו Vav, ל Lamed, י Yod, ס Samekh, ס Samekh. The first letter is Yod, the last is Samekh.
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The name יוליסס 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
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with י and ends with ס. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — there it has exactly one, Proverbs 12:24:
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: יוליסס = 176. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
«which HaShem commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that they were anointed. It is a due for ever throughout their generations.»
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.
