The name Assir in Hebrew letters is אסיר. 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.
אסיר
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אסיר. A Tanakh name: the name of two Israelites (first in Exodus 6:24; 5 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 271. That number points to Torah page 271 of 354 — in the portion Pinchas. What that portion is about: The covenant of peace with Phinehas; the second census; the daughters of Zelophehad and inheritance; Joshua the successor; the festival offerings. 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.
You wrote “Assir” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: אסיר. A name from the Tanakh — its Tanakh spelling is used. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
This is from the portion Pinchas. What it is about: The covenant of peace with Phinehas; the second census; the daughters of Zelophehad and inheritance; Joshua the successor; the festival offerings.
The same number, 271, is given by these Tanakh names:
Jeremiah ירמיהו
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) — 271.
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) — 46. A Torah word with the same number is מאה — “hundred” (Genesis 5:3).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1106.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 43701.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 404. A Torah word with the same number is קדש — “holiness, holy thing” (Exodus 3:5).
The letters that come out are תחמג — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 451. A Torah word with the same number is ישמעאל — “Ishmael, son of Abraham” (Genesis 16:11).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 761. A Torah word with the same number is נשאתי — “I have granted” (Genesis 19:21).
The number 271 appears in the classical books 5 times across 5 works. The earliest mention is עולם אחד (~1480?).
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 — 271. 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. אסיר has 4 letters: א Alef, ס Samekh, י Yod, ר Resh. The first letter is Alef, the last is Resh.
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The name אסיר appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Exodus 6:24.
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 אסיר 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 אסיר has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 271 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.
