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, “Jacob, son of Isaac”. 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. Every figure can be checked by hand.
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Adding up the letters of the name יעקב gives 182.
182
The number 182 is the Torah word יעקב — «Jacob, son of Isaac» (Genesis 25:26).
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.
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) — 182. A Torah word with the same number is יעקב — “Jacob, son of Isaac” (Genesis 25:26).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 11. A Torah word with the same number is חג — “festival” (Exodus 10:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 47. A Torah word with the same number is אולי — “perhaps” (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 — “straw” (Genesis 24:25).
The letters that come out are מזדש — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. 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, carry” (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 — “ointment mixture” (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).
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 — 182. 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. יעקב has 4 letters: י Yod, ע Ayin, ק Qof, ב Bet. The first letter is Yod, the last is Bet.
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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.
«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,»
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.
