Your name in the Torah: in Hebrew letters, as a number, with the verse it lands on and the sources. Computed, not divined. Free.
Your name
You did not choose your name. It was given — almost always after someone who came before you.
The number of your name is 106. The Torah word נון — “Nun or Non, the father of Joshua” — has the same.
The verse of your name
There is a sentence with which, by custom, a person answers when asked who they are.
Yours is this one.
אל מקום המזבח אשר עשה שם בראשנה ויקרא שם אברם בשם ה׳
Genesis 13:4
The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, א, and ends with the last, ה.
The custom is written down in the Kitzur Shelah and in Sefer Ben Zion: “say it regularly and never forget it as long as you live.” The Rokeach gives the reason in Chochmat ha-Nefesh: a person is asked their name, and whoever does not remember cannot answer. The verse holds the name for them. Siddur ha-Rashban puts it more plainly: children were made to learn their verse by heart — so that if they were taken and forgot everything else, they would still know who they were.
The week you were born
Add your date of birth and we will show which portion the world was reading the week you appeared, and whether it holds a word of your number.
How rare this number is
A word with the number 106 appears in 33 of the 54 weekly portions.
What is left
We counted your name in one system. There are nine, and they give nine different numbers. When several systems lead to the same portion, the tradition reads that theme as strong. So far you have one.
Below — how this was counted, letter by letter.
Alisa — The customary Hebrew spelling of this name. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
אליסה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אליסה. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 106 — the same as the Torah word נון, “Nun or Non, the father of Joshua”. That number points to Torah page 106 of 354 — in the portion Vaera. What that portion is about: “And I appeared”: the promise of redemption in four expressions; the first seven plagues, from blood to hail. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 13:4. 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 אליסה gives 106.
106
The number 106 is the Torah word נון — «Nun or Non, the father of Joshua» (Exodus 33:11).
The number 106, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 106 in the book of Shmot (Exodus). These are its opening words:
אותך ואת עמך בדבר ותכחד מן הארץ ואולם …
The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 9:15:
כִּי עַתָּה שָׁלַחְתִּי אֶת־יָדִי וָאַךְ אוֹתְךָ וְאֶת־עַמְּךָ בַּדָּבֶר וַתִּכָּחֵד מִן־הָאָרֶץ
Surely now I had put forth My hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth.
This is from the portion Vaera. What it is about: “And I appeared”: the promise of redemption in four expressions; the first seven plagues, from blood to hail.
The same number, 106, is given by these biblical names:
נון · יהללאל · המונה · יויכין
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) — 106. A Torah word with the same number is נון — “Nun or Non, the father of Joshua” (Exodus 33:11).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 16. A Torah word with the same number is אחז — “to seize” (Genesis 22:13).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 43. A Torah word with the same number is גם — “assemblage” (Genesis 3:6).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 431. A Torah word with the same number is עציוןגבר — “Etsjon-Geber, a place on the Red Sea” (Numbers 33:35).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 4626.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 280. A Torah word with the same number is עיר — “a city” (Genesis 4:17).
The word that comes out is תכמחצ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 558.
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 331. A Torah word with the same number is שאל — “to inquire” (Genesis 24:47).
The number 106 appears in the classical books 12 times across 8 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
The name אליסה 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 אליסה these are א and ה. The Pentateuch has 49 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 13:4:
אל מקום המזבח אשר עשה שם בראשנה ויקרא שם אברם בשם ה׳
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.
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.