The name Yuval in Hebrew letters is יובל. 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.
יובל
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is יובל. “Jubilee” — the fiftieth year when land returns to its owners (Leviticus 25); also the name of the inventor of music (Genesis 4:21). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 48 — the same as the Torah word יובל, “ram's horn, jubilee”. That number points to Torah page 48 of 354 — in the portion Vayetzei. What that portion is about: The dream of the ladder to heaven; Jacob with Laban: Leah and Rachel; eleven sons are born; the return. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Deuteronomy 1:38. 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 יובל gives 48.
48
The number 48 is the Torah word יובל — «ram's horn, jubilee» (Exodus 19:13).
And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.
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.
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) — 48. A Torah word with the same number is יובל — “ram's horn, jubilee” (Exodus 19:13).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 12. A Torah word with the same number is הוא — “he, it” (Genesis 2:11).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 30. A Torah word with the same number is כי — “for, because, that” (Genesis 1:4).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 184. A Torah word with the same number is פקד — “to visit, number” (Genesis 21:1).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 1040.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 92. A Torah word with the same number is מאומה — “anything” (Genesis 22:12).
The letters that come out are מפשכ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 440. A Torah word with the same number is שמנים — “eighty” (Genesis 5:25).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 518. A Torah word with the same number is חריש — “plowing” (Genesis 45:6).
The number 48 appears in the classical books 16 times across 11 works. The earliest mention is ספר הפליאה (~1390).
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 — 48. 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. יובל has 4 letters: י Yod, ו Vav, ב Bet, ל Lamed. The first letter is Yod, the last is Lamed.
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The name יובל appears in the Torah as a word 4 times. The first time is Genesis 4:21. Another 4 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 יובל these are י and ל. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Deuteronomy 1:38:
יהושע בן נון העמד לפניך הוא יבא שמה אתו חזק כי הוא ינחלנה את ישראל
This is from the portion Devarim. What it is about: Moses begins his address in the plains of Moab: judges, spies, forty years of wandering, the victories over Sihon and Og.
The name יובל has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 48 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.
