The name Yesenia in Hebrew letters is יסניה. 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.
יסניה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is יסניה. A Spanish name taken from Jessenia, a group of South American palm trees. The Mexican television series “Yesenia” spread it in the 1970s. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 135 — the same as the Torah word מצה, “unleavened bread”. That number points to Torah page 135 of 354 — in the portion Terumah. What that portion is about: The offering for the Sanctuary; the Ark, the table and the lampstand; the Tabernacle and its curtains; the altar. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 33:14. 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 יסניה gives 135.
135
The number 135 is the Torah word מצה — «unleavened bread» (Genesis 19:3).
And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the first set; and likewise shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second set.
This is from the portion Terumah. What it is about: The offering for the Sanctuary; the Ark, the table and the lampstand; the Tabernacle and its curtains; the altar.
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) — 135. A Torah word with the same number is מצה — “unleavened bread” (Genesis 19:3).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 18. A Torah word with the same number is חי — “living” (Genesis 1:20).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 54. A Torah word with the same number is מטה — “staff, tribe” (Genesis 38:18).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 575. A Torah word with the same number is בארשבע — “Beersheba” (Genesis 21:14).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 6325.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 465. A Torah word with the same number is משענה — “staff, support” (Exodus 21:19).
The letters that come out are מחטמצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 187. A Torah word with the same number is מספוא — “fodder” (Genesis 24:25).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 272. A Torah word with the same number is עבר — “to pass, cross over” (Genesis 8:1).
The number 135 appears in the classical books 22 times across 11 works. The earliest mention is מדרש לפירושים (~1450?).
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 — 135. 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. יסניה has 5 letters: י Yod, ס Samekh, נ Nun, י Yod, ה He. The first letter is Yod, the last is He.
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The name יסניה 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 יסניה these are י and ה. The Pentateuch has 10 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 33:14:
יעבר נא אדני לפני עבדו ואני אתנהלה לאטי לרגל המלאכה אשר לפני ולרגל הילדים עד אשר אבא אל אדני שעירה
This is from the portion Vayishlach. What it is about: Wrestling with the angel and the name Israel; the meeting with Esau; Dinah in Shechem; the birth of Benjamin and Rachel's death.
«And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the first set; and likewise shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second set.»
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.
