Alisa — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Alisa in Hebrew letters is אליסה. 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.
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 full message
Every letter of the name explained, the words and namesakes with references, the Hebrew date, the letter and tribe of the month, the day 861 of your life, the psalm by age, the attestations from 834 works — a PDF built the moment you pay.
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.
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).
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 106
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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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