The name Vuk in Hebrew letters is ווק. 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.
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In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ווק. This name comes from the Slavic languages. Its source is the word or name vuk, which means “wolf”; today it is mostly found in Serbia, and it was borne by the linguist Vuk Karadžić. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 112 — the same as the Torah word יבק, “Jabbok river”. That number points to Torah page 112 of 354 — in the portion Bo. What that portion is about: Locusts, darkness and the death of the firstborn; the Passover lamb; the exodus from Egypt; the commandment of tefillin. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 14:15. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Vuk” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: ווק. A name from the Tanakh — its Tanakh spelling is used. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
Adding up the letters of the name ווק gives 112.
112
The number 112 is the Torah word יבק — «Jabbok river» (Genesis 32:23).
that ye shall say: It is the sacrifice of HaShem'S passover, for that He passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when He smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.' And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
This is from the portion Bo. What it is about: Locusts, darkness and the death of the firstborn; the Passover lamb; the exodus from Egypt; the commandment of tefillin.
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) — 112. A Torah word with the same number is יבק — “Jabbok river” (Genesis 32:23).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 13. A Torah word with the same number is אחד — “one” (Genesis 1:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 31. A Torah word with the same number is אל — “to, toward” (Genesis 1:9).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 637. A Torah word with the same number is לראות — “to see” (Genesis 2:19).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 10072.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 130. A Torah word with the same number is עין — “eye, spring” (Genesis 3:5).
The letters that come out are פפד — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 164. A Torah word with the same number is מעדן — “delicacy” (Genesis 49:20).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 210. A Torah word with the same number is דור — “generation” (Genesis 6:9).
The number 112 appears in the classical books 15 times across 12 works. The earliest mention is מדרש לפירושים (~1450?).
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 — 112. 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. ווק has 3 letters: ו Vav, ו Vav, ק Qof. The first letter is Vav, the last is Qof.
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The name ווק 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 ווק these are ו and ק. The Pentateuch has 17 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 14:15:
ויחלק עליהם לילה הוא ועבדיו ויכם וירדפם עד חובה אשר משמאל לדמשק
This is from the portion Lech Lecha. What it is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision.
The name ווק has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 112 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.
