The name Alvah in Hebrew letters is עלוה. 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.
עלוה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is עלוה. A Tanakh name: an Edomite (first in Genesis 36:40; 3 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 111 — the same as the Torah word אלף, “thousand”. That number points to Torah page 111 of 354 — in the portion Bo. What that portion is about: Locusts, darkness and the death of the firstborn; the Passover lamb; the exodus from Egypt; the commandment of tefillin. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 31:52. 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 עלוה gives 111.
111
The number 111 is the Torah word אלף — «thousand» (Genesis 20:16).
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to HaShem; throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
This is from the portion Bo. What it is about: Locusts, darkness and the death of the firstborn; the Passover lamb; the exodus from Egypt; the commandment of tefillin.
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) — 111. A Torah word with the same number is אלף — “thousand” (Genesis 20:16).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 21. A Torah word with the same number is אך — “only, surely” (Genesis 7:23).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 39. A Torah word with the same number is גאלה — “redemption” (Leviticus 25:24).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 466. A Torah word with the same number is שמעון — “Simeon, son of Jacob” (Genesis 29:33).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 5861.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 387. A Torah word with the same number is השבלים — “the ears of grain” (Genesis 41:7).
The letters that come out are זכפצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 197. A Torah word with the same number is בקצה — “at the edge” (Genesis 23:9).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 222. A Torah word with the same number is ברך — “to bless, kneel” (Genesis 1:22).
The number 111 appears in the classical books 39 times across 24 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 — 111. 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. עלוה has 4 letters: ע Ayin, ל Lamed, ו Vav, ה He. The first letter is Ayin, the last is He.
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The name עלוה appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Genesis 36:40.
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 עלוה these are ע and ה. The Pentateuch has 17 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 31:52:
עד הגל הזה ועדה המצבה אם אני לא אעבר אליך את הגל הזה ואם אתה לא תעבר אלי את הגל הזה ואת המצבה הזאת לרעה
This is from the portion Vayetzei. What it is about: The dream of the ladder to heaven; Jacob with Laban: Leah and Rachel; eleven sons are born; the return.
The name עלוה has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 111 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.
