Leah — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Leah in Hebrew letters is לאה. 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.
לאה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is לאה. The meaning is debated: “weary” or “wild cow.” Laban’s elder daughter, Jacob’s wife, mother of six tribes including Levi and Judah (Genesis 29–30). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 36 — the same as the Torah word אלה, “these or those”. That number points to Torah page 36 of 354 — in the portion Chayei Sarah. What that portion is about: Sarah's death and the purchase of the cave of Machpelah; the servant seeks a wife for Isaac; Rebecca at the well; Abraham's death. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 49:18. 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 לאה gives 36.
36
The number 36 is the Torah word אלה — «these or those» (Genesis 2:4).
Thirty-six Hanukkah lights over eight days; the “lamed-vav”, thirty-six righteous (Talmud, Sukkah 45b).
The number 36, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 36 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis). These are its opening words:
חסד עם אדני ויהי הוא טרם כלה לדבר …
The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 24:14:
וְהָיָה הַנַּעֲרָ אֲשֶׁר אֹמַר אֵלֶיהָ הַטִּי־נָא כַדֵּךְ וְאֶשְׁתֶּה וְאָמְרָה שְׁתֵה וְגַם־גְּמַלֶּיךָ אַשְׁקֶה אֹתָהּ הֹכַחְתָּ לְעַבְדְּךָ לְיִצְחָק וּבָהּ אֵדַע כִּי־עָשִׂיתָ חֶסֶד עִם־אֲדֹנִי
So let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say: Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say: Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also; let the same be she that Thou hast appointed for Thy servant, even for Isaac; and thereby shall I know that Thou hast shown kindness unto my master.'
This is from the portion Chayei Sarah. What it is about: Sarah's death and the purchase of the cave of Machpelah; the servant seeks a wife for Isaac; Rebecca at the well; Abraham's death.
The same number, 36, is given by these biblical names:
לאה · אלה · אחיטוב · הודויה
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) — 36. A Torah word with the same number is אלה — “these or those” (Genesis 2:4).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 9. A Torah word with the same number is בוא — “to go or come” (Genesis 2:19).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 18. A Torah word with the same number is חי — “alive” (Genesis 1:20).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 121. A Torah word with the same number is אצל — “a side” (Genesis 39:10).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 926.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 97. A Torah word with the same number is נזם — “a nose-ring” (Genesis 24:22).
The word that comes out is כתצ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 510. A Torah word with the same number is ירש — “to occupy” (Genesis 15:3).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 191.
The number 36 appears in the classical books 19 times across 16 works. The earliest mention is ילקוט שמעוני (~1260).
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The name לאה appears in the Torah as a word 28 times. The first time is Genesis 29:16. Another 5 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 לאה these are ל and ה. The Pentateuch has 27 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 49:18:
לישועתך קויתי ה׳
This is from the portion Vayechi. What it is about: Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh and all his sons; Jacob's death and burial in Hebron; Joseph's death.
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) — 36. A Torah word with the same number is אלה — “these or those” (Genesis 2:4).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 9. A Torah word with the same number is בוא — “to go or come” (Genesis 2:19).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 18. A Torah word with the same number is חי — “alive” (Genesis 1:20).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 121. A Torah word with the same number is אצל — “a side” (Genesis 39:10).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 926.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 97. A Torah word with the same number is נזם — “a nose-ring” (Genesis 24:22).
The word that comes out is כתצ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 510. A Torah word with the same number is ירש — “to occupy” (Genesis 15:3).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 191.
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 36
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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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