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”. 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. Every figure can be checked by hand.
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Adding up the letters of the name לאה gives 36.
36
The number 36 is the Torah word אלה — «these» (Genesis 2:4).
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.
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) — 36. A Torah word with the same number is אלה — “these” (Genesis 2:4).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 9. A Torah word with the same number is בוא — “to come, enter” (Genesis 2:19).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 18. A Torah word with the same number is חי — “living” (Genesis 1:20).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 121. A Torah word with the same number is אצל — “beside” (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 — “nose ring” (Genesis 24:22).
The letters that come out are כתצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. 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 inherit, possess” (Genesis 15:3).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 191. A Torah word with the same number is המקום — “the place” (Genesis 13:3).
The number 36 appears in the classical books 19 times across 16 works. The earliest mention is ילקוט שמעוני (~1260).
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 — 36. 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. לאה has 3 letters: ל Lamed, א Alef, ה He. The first letter is Lamed, the last is He.
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The name לאה appears in the Torah as a word 28 times. The first time is בראשית 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.
The name לאה has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 36 is not among them. Half of all names are like this — neither good nor bad, just a fact of counting.
Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.
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.
