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, “carcass”. 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. Every figure can be checked by hand.
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Adding up the letters of the name אלון gives 87.
87
The number 87 is the Torah word נבלה — «carcass» (Leviticus 5:2).
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.
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) — 737. A Torah word with the same number is לקראתו — “to meet him” (Genesis 14:17).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 15. A Torah word with the same number is זוב — “to flow” (Exodus 3:8).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 33. A Torah word with the same number is גל — “heap of stones” (Genesis 31:46).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 322. A Torah word with the same number is כבש — “male lamb” (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, son of Jacob” (Genesis 30:24).
The letters that come out are תכפט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. 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 — “officer, foreman” (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 draw water” (Genesis 24:11).
The number 87 appears in the classical books 24 times across 12 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
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 — 87. 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. אלון has 4 letters: א Alef, ל Lamed, ו Vav, ן final Nun. The first letter is Alef, the last is final Nun.
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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.
«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.»
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.
