Alon — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Alon in Hebrew letters is אלון. 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.
אלון
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אלון. “Oak.” The tree under which Rebecca’s nurse was buried (Genesis 35:8). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 87 — the same as the Torah word נבלה, “a flabby thing, i.e. a carcase or carrion”. That number points to Torah page 87 of 354 — in the portion Vayechi. What that portion is about: Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh and all his sons; Jacob's death and burial in Hebron; Joseph's death. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 36:27. 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 אלון gives 87.
87
The number 87 is the Torah word נבלה — «a flabby thing, i.e. a carcase or carrion» (Leviticus 5:2).
The number 87, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 87 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis). These are its opening words:
והרביתך ונתתיך לקהל עמים ונתתי את הארץ הזאת …
The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 48:4:
וַיֹּאמֶר אֵלַי הִנְנִי מַפְרְךָ וְהִרְבִּיתִךָ וּנְתַתִּיךָ לִקְהַל עַמִּים וְנָתַתִּי אֶת־הָאָרֶץ הַזֹּאת לְזַרְעֲךָ אַחֲרֶיךָ אֲחֻזַּת עוֹלָם
and said unto me: Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
This is from the portion Vayechi. What it is about: Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh and all his sons; Jacob's death and burial in Hebron; Joseph's death.
The same number, 87, is given by these biblical names:
לבנה · עזי · אלון · בלאדן
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) — 737.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 15. A Torah word with the same number is זוב — “to flow freely” (Exodus 3:8).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 33. A Torah word with the same number is גל — “something rolled, i.e. a heap of stone or dung” (Genesis 31:46).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 322. A Torah word with the same number is כבש — “a ram” (Exodus 12:5).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 3437.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 156. A Torah word with the same number is יוסף — “Joseph, the name of seven Israelites” (Genesis 30:24).
The word that comes out is תכפט. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 509. A Torah word with the same number is שטר — “a scribe, i.e.” (Exodus 5:6).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 303. A Torah word with the same number is שאב — “to bale up water” (Genesis 24:11).
The number 87 appears in the classical books 24 times across 12 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
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The name אלון appears in the Torah as a word 2 times. The first time is Genesis 12:6. Another 3 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 אלון these are א and נ. The Pentateuch has 35 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 36:27:
אלה בני אצר בלהן וזעון ועקן
This is from the portion Vayishlach. What it is about: Wrestling with the angel and the name Israel; the meeting with Esau; Dinah in Shechem; the birth of Benjamin and Rachel's death.
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) — 737.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 15. A Torah word with the same number is זוב — “to flow freely” (Exodus 3:8).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 33. A Torah word with the same number is גל — “something rolled, i.e. a heap of stone or dung” (Genesis 31:46).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 322. A Torah word with the same number is כבש — “a ram” (Exodus 12:5).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 3437.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 156. A Torah word with the same number is יוסף — “Joseph, the name of seven Israelites” (Genesis 30:24).
The word that comes out is תכפט. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 509. A Torah word with the same number is שטר — “a scribe, i.e.” (Exodus 5:6).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 303. A Torah word with the same number is שאב — “to bale up water” (Genesis 24:11).
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 87
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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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