Jacob — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Jacob in Hebrew letters is יעקב. 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.
יעקב
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is יעקב. From “heel”: he was born holding his brother’s heel (Genesis 25:26). The third patriarch; after wrestling the angel he received a second name, Israel. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 182 — the same as the Torah word יעקב, “Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch”. That number points to Torah page 182 of 354 — in the portion Shmini. What that portion is about: The eighth day: Aaron's first service; fire from heaven; the death of Nadab and Abihu; clean and unclean animals. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 15:6. 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 יעקב gives 182.
182
The number 182 is the Torah word יעקב — «Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch» (Genesis 25:26).
The number 182, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 182 in the book of Vayikra (Leviticus). These are its opening words:
בימים ובנחלים מכל שרץ המים ומכל נפש החיה …
The verse this place falls on is Vayikra (Leviticus) 11:10:
וְכֹל אֲשֶׁר אֵין־לוֹ סְנַפִּיר וְקַשְׂקֶשֶׂת בַּיַּמִּים וּבַנְּחָלִים מִכֹּל שֶׁרֶץ הַמַּיִם וּמִכֹּל נֶפֶשׁ הַחַיָּה אֲשֶׁר בַּמָּיִם שֶׁקֶץ הֵם לָכֶם
And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that swarm in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are a detestable thing unto you,
This is from the portion Shmini. What it is about: The eighth day: Aaron's first service; fire from heaven; the death of Nadab and Abihu; clean and unclean animals.
The same number, 182, is given by these biblical names:
יעקב · עזקה
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) — 182. A Torah word with the same number is יעקב — “Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch” (Genesis 25:26).
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) — 47. A Torah word with the same number is אולי — “if not” (Genesis 16:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 978.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 15004.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 452. A Torah word with the same number is תבן — “material, i.e.” (Genesis 24:25).
The word that comes out is מזדש. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 351. A Torah word with the same number is נשא — “to lift, in a great variety of applications,…” (Genesis 4:13).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 748. A Torah word with the same number is מרקחת — “an aromatic unguent” (Exodus 30:25).
The number 182 appears in the classical books 31 times across 8 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
The full message
Every letter of the name explained, the words and namesakes with references, the Hebrew date, the letter and tribe of the month, the day 861 of your life, the psalm by age, the attestations from 834 works — a PDF built the moment you pay.
The name יעקב appears in the Torah as a word 160 times. The first time is Genesis 25:26. Another 51 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 יעקב these are י and ב. The Pentateuch has 5 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 15:6:
ימינך ה׳ נאדרי בכח ימינך ה׳ תרעץ אויב
This is from the portion Beshalach. What it is about: The parting of the sea and the song of Moses and Miriam; manna and quail; water from the rock; the war with Amalek.
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) — 182. A Torah word with the same number is יעקב — “Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch” (Genesis 25:26).
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) — 47. A Torah word with the same number is אולי — “if not” (Genesis 16:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 978.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 15004.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 452. A Torah word with the same number is תבן — “material, i.e.” (Genesis 24:25).
The word that comes out is מזדש. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 351. A Torah word with the same number is נשא — “to lift, in a great variety of applications,…” (Genesis 4:13).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 748. A Torah word with the same number is מרקחת — “an aromatic unguent” (Exodus 30:25).
Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.
Compute with a date of birth The whole Torah page 182
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How it is counted
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.
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