Eli — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Eli in Hebrew letters is עלי. 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.
עלי
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is עלי. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 110 — the same as the Torah word עם, “a people”. That number points to Torah page 110 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 26:5. 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 עלי gives 110.
110
The number 110 is the Torah word עם — «a people» (Genesis 11:6).
Joseph's hundred and ten years (Genesis 50:26) and Joshua's (Joshua 24:29).
The number 110, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 110 in the book of Shmot (Exodus). These are its opening words:
פרעה למען רבות מופתי בארץ מצרים ומשה ואהרן …
The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 11:9:
וַיֹּאמֶר ה׳ אֶל־מֹשֶׁה לֹא־יִשְׁמַע אֲלֵיכֶם פַּרְעֹה לְמַעַן רְבוֹת מוֹפְתַי בְּאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם
And HaShem said unto Moses: 'Pharaoh will not hearken unto you; that My wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.'
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.
The same number, 110, is given by these biblical names:
עלי · ימין · יעל · אלדעה
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) — 110. A Torah word with the same number is עם — “a people” (Genesis 11:6).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 11. A Torah word with the same number is חג — “a festival, or a victim therefor” (Exodus 10:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 38. A Torah word with the same number is גלה — “to denude” (Genesis 9:21).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 485. A Torah word with the same number is פתה — “to open, i.e. be” (Genesis 9:27).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 5900.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 280. A Torah word with the same number is עיר — “a city” (Genesis 4:17).
The word that comes out is זכמ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 67. A Torah word with the same number is אבידן — “Abidan, an Israelite” (Numbers 1:11).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 224. A Torah word with the same number is דרך — “a road” (Genesis 3:24).
The number 110 appears in the classical books 106 times across 20 works. The earliest mention is מנורת המאור (אבוהב) (~1400).
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The name עלי appears in the Torah as a word 28 times. The first time is Genesis 20:9.
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 עלי these are ע and י. The Pentateuch has 3 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 26:5:
עקב אשר שמע אברהם בקלי וישמר משמרתי מצותי חקותי ותורתי
This is from the portion Toldot. What it is about: The birth of Esau and Jacob; the birthright sold for lentil stew; Isaac's wells; Jacob receives the blessing.
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) — 110. A Torah word with the same number is עם — “a people” (Genesis 11:6).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 11. A Torah word with the same number is חג — “a festival, or a victim therefor” (Exodus 10:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 38. A Torah word with the same number is גלה — “to denude” (Genesis 9:21).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 485. A Torah word with the same number is פתה — “to open, i.e. be” (Genesis 9:27).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 5900.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 280. A Torah word with the same number is עיר — “a city” (Genesis 4:17).
The word that comes out is זכמ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 67. A Torah word with the same number is אבידן — “Abidan, an Israelite” (Numbers 1:11).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 224. A Torah word with the same number is דרך — “a road” (Genesis 3:24).
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 110
Other names
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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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