Your name in the Torah: in Hebrew letters, as a number, with the verse it lands on and the sources. Computed, not divined. Free.
Your name
You did not choose your name. It was given — almost always after someone who came before you.
Jael (יעל) stands in the Torah as a word of its own — 1 time. First in Genesis 8:20.
Jael (יעל) — “Mountain goat.” The woman who defeated the general Sisera (Judges 4–5).
And the same number belongs to the Torah word עם — “a people”.
110 and 110.
The verse of your name
There is a sentence with which, by custom, a person answers when asked who they are.
Yours is this one.
יהושע בן נון העמד לפניך הוא יבא שמה אתו חזק כי הוא ינחלנה את ישראל
Deuteronomy 1:38
The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, י, and ends with the last, ל.
The custom is written down in the Kitzur Shelah and in Sefer Ben Zion: “say it regularly and never forget it as long as you live.” The Rokeach gives the reason in Chochmat ha-Nefesh: a person is asked their name, and whoever does not remember cannot answer. The verse holds the name for them. Siddur ha-Rashban puts it more plainly: children were made to learn their verse by heart — so that if they were taken and forgot everything else, they would still know who they were.
The week you were born
Add your date of birth and we will show which portion the world was reading the week you appeared, and whether it holds a word of your number.
How rare this number is
A word with the number 110 appears in 50 of the 54 weekly portions. That is a common number — it is in most portions.
You are not alone in this number
The same number belongs to these names:
What is left
We counted your name in one system. There are nine, and they give nine different numbers. When several systems lead to the same portion, the tradition reads that theme as strong. So far you have one.
Below — how this was counted, letter by letter.
Jael — A name of biblical origin — its biblical spelling is used. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
יעל
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is יעל. “Mountain goat.” The woman who defeated the general Sisera (Judges 4–5). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 110 — the same as the Torah word עם, “a people”. That number points to Torah page 110 of 354 — in the portion Bo. What that portion is about: Locusts, darkness and the death of the firstborn; the Passover lamb; the exodus from Egypt; the commandment of tefillin. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Deuteronomy 1:38. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. There are no predictions or judgments here — only the text of the Torah and arithmetic you can check.
Adding up the letters of the name יעל gives 110.
110
The number 110 is the Torah word עם — «a people» (Genesis 11:6).
Joseph's hundred and ten years (Genesis 50:26) and Joshua's (Joshua 24:29).
The number 110, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 110 in the book of Shmot (Exodus). These are its opening words:
פרעה למען רבות מופתי בארץ מצרים ומשה ואהרן …
The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 11:9:
וַיֹּאמֶר ה׳ אֶל־מֹשֶׁה לֹא־יִשְׁמַע אֲלֵיכֶם פַּרְעֹה לְמַעַן רְבוֹת מוֹפְתַי בְּאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם
And HaShem said unto Moses: 'Pharaoh will not hearken unto you; that My wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.'
This is from the portion Bo. What it is about: Locusts, darkness and the death of the firstborn; the Passover lamb; the exodus from Egypt; the commandment of tefillin.
The same number, 110, is given by these biblical names:
עלי · ימין · יעל · אלדעה
Nine 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) — 110. A Torah word with the same number is עם — “a people” (Genesis 11:6).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 11. A Torah word with the same number is חג — “a festival, or a victim therefor” (Exodus 10:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 38. A Torah word with the same number is גלה — “to denude” (Genesis 9:21).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 485. A Torah word with the same number is פתה — “to open, i.e. be” (Genesis 9:27).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 5900.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 200. A Torah word with the same number is כנעני — “a Kenaanite or inhabitant of Kenaan” (Genesis 10:18).
The word that comes out is מזכ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 67. A Torah word with the same number is אבידן — “Abidan, an Israelite” (Numbers 1:11).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 224. A Torah word with the same number is דרך — “a road” (Genesis 3:24).
The number 110 appears in the classical books 106 times across 20 works. The earliest mention is מנורת המאור (אבוהב) (~1400).
The name יעל appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Genesis 8:20. Another 26 times it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
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 יעל these are י and ל. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Deuteronomy 1:38:
יהושע בן נון העמד לפניך הוא יבא שמה אתו חזק כי הוא ינחלנה את ישראל
This is from the portion Devarim. What it is about: Moses begins his address in the plains of Moab: judges, spies, forty years of wandering, the victories over Sihon and Og.
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.
Биньямин Пичхадзе, «Хумаш 354» (חומש 354), Бней-Брак, 2002 / התשס״ג · A calculation, not a prediction.