The name Ilan in Hebrew letters is אילן. 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.
אילן
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אילן. A Tanakh name: a Hittite, two Israelites and a place (first in Genesis 26:34; 7 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “oak grove”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 91 — the same as the Torah word מלאך, “messenger, angel”. That number points to Torah page 91 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 אילן gives 91.
91
The number 91 is the Torah word מלאך — «messenger, angel» (Genesis 16:7).
And they sent a message unto Joseph, saying: 'Thy father did command before he died, saying:
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) — 741. A Torah word with the same number is משאת — “portion, gift” (Genesis 43:34).
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) — 37. A Torah word with the same number is גדל — “to grow, be great” (Genesis 12:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 356. A Torah word with the same number is פעור — “Peor, mountain in Moab” (Numbers 23:28).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 3501.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 144. A Torah word with the same number is קדם — “east, ancient time” (Genesis 2:8).
The letters that come out are תמכט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 469. A Torah word with the same number is אבתינו — “our fathers” (Genesis 46:34).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 311. A Torah word with the same number is איש — “man” (Genesis 2:23).
The number 91 appears in the classical books 67 times across 32 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
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 — 91. 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. אילן has 4 letters: א Alef, י Yod, ל Lamed, ן final Nun. The first letter is Alef, the last is final Nun.
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The name אילן appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Γένεση 26:34.
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 אילן 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.
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.
