The name Alisher in Hebrew letters is אלישר. 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.
אלישר
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אלישר. A name used in Central Asia, made of the Arabic name Ali, “high”, and the Persian word sher, “lion”. The poet Alisher Navoi lived in the 15th century in Herat. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 541 — the same as the Torah word ישראל, “Israel”. That number points to Torah page 187 of 354 — in the portion Tazria. What that portion is about: The woman after childbirth; the laws of tzaraat on skin and garments — the signs and the priest's inspection. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 23:15. 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 אלישר gives 541.
541
The number 541 is the Torah word ישראל — «Israel» (Genesis 32:29).
And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead-bald; yet is he clean.
This is from the portion Tazria. What it is about: The woman after childbirth; the laws of tzaraat on skin and garments — the signs and the priest's inspection.
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) — 541. A Torah word with the same number is ישראל — “Israel” (Genesis 32:29).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 10. A Torah word with the same number is בדד — “alone” (Numbers 23:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 64. A Torah word with the same number is נטה — “to stretch out, pitch” (Genesis 12:8).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2051.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 131001.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 955.
The letters that come out are תכמבג — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 465. A Torah word with the same number is משענה — “staff, support” (Exodus 21:19).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1075.
The number 541 appears in the classical books 31 times across 18 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
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 — 541. 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. אלישר has 5 letters: א Alef, ל Lamed, י Yod, ש Shin, ר Resh. The first letter is Alef, the last is Resh.
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The name אלישר 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 אלישר these are א and ר. The Pentateuch has 15 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 23:15:
אדני שמעני ארץ ארבע מאת שקל כסף ביני ובינך מה הוא ואת מתך קבר
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.
The name אלישר has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 541 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.
