The name Asriel in Hebrew letters is אשריאל. 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.
אשריאל
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אשריאל. A Tanakh name: the name of two Israelites (first in Numbers 26:31; 3 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 542 — the same as the Torah word אשריאל, “Asriel, descendant of Manasseh”. That number points to Torah page 188 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 10:32. 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 אשריאל gives 542.
542
The number 542 is the Torah word אשריאל — «Asriel, descendant of Manasseh» (Numbers 26:31).
And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be dim after the washing thereof, then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof.
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) — 542. A Torah word with the same number is אשריאל — “Asriel, descendant of Manasseh” (Numbers 26:31).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 11. A Torah word with the same number is חג — “festival” (Exodus 10:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 65. A Torah word with the same number is אדני — “my Lord” (Genesis 15:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2052.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 131002.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 2368.
The letters that come out are תבגמתכ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 865.
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1186.
The number 542 appears in the classical books 10 times across 7 works. The earliest mention is ילקוט שמעוני (~1260).
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 — 542. 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. אשריאל has 6 letters: א Alef, ש Shin, ר Resh, י Yod, א Alef, ל Lamed. The first letter is Alef, the last is Lamed.
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The name אשריאל does not stand as a separate word in the Torah, but appears 1 time with prefixes — first in Numbers 26:31.
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 אשריאל these are א and ל. The Pentateuch has 11 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 10:32:
אלה משפחת בני נח לתולדתם בגויהם ומאלה נפרדו הגוים בארץ אחר המבול
This is from the portion Noach. What it is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham.
The name אשריאל has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 542 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.
