The name Jesus in Hebrew letters is ישוע. 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.
ישוע
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ישוע. A Tanakh name: the name of ten Israelites (first in Ezra 2:2; 29 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “he will save”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 386 — the same as the Torah word לשון, “tongue, language”. That number points to Torah page 32 of 354 — in the portion Vayera. What that portion is about: Three visitors at Abraham's tent; the plea for Sodom; the birth of Isaac; the binding of Isaac on Mount Moriah. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 31:29. 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 ישוע gives 386.
386
The number 386 is the Torah word לשון — «tongue, language» (Genesis 10:5).
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This is from the portion Vayera. What it is about: Three visitors at Abraham's tent; the plea for Sodom; the birth of Isaac; the binding of Isaac on Mount Moriah.
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) — 386. A Torah word with the same number is לשון — “tongue, language” (Genesis 10:5).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 17. A Torah word with the same number is טוב — “good” (Genesis 1:4).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 53. A Torah word with the same number is אבן — “stone” (Genesis 2:12).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1496.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 95036.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1022.
The letters that come out are מבפז — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 129. A Torah word with the same number is נטע — “to plant” (Genesis 2:8).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 522. A Torah word with the same number is בנתיכם — “your daughters” (Genesis 34:9).
The number 386 appears in the classical books 15 times across 10 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
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 — 386. 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. ישוע has 4 letters: י Yod, ש Shin, ו Vav, ע Ayin. The first letter is Yod, the last is Ayin.
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The name ישוע 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 ישוע these are י and ע. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 31:29:
יש לאל ידי לעשות עמכם רע ואלהי אביכם אמש אמר אלי לאמר השמר לך מדבר עם יעקב מטוב עד רע
This is from the portion Vayetzei. What it is about: The dream of the ladder to heaven; Jacob with Laban: Leah and Rachel; eleven sons are born; the return.
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.
