The name Adan in Hebrew letters is אדם. 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.
אדם
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אדם. “Human,” from “adamah,” the earth from which he was formed (Genesis 2:7). The first man; he named all the animals. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 45 — the same as the Torah word מה, “what”. That number points to Torah page 45 of 354 — in the portion Toldot. What that portion is about: The birth of Esau and Jacob; the birthright sold for lentil stew; Isaac's wells; Jacob receives the blessing. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 2:4. 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 אדם gives 45.
45
The number 45 is the Torah word מה — «what» (Genesis 2:19).
When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said unto his father: 'Bless me, even me also, O my father.'
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.
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) — 605. A Torah word with the same number is ארפכשד — “Arpachshad, son of Shem” (Genesis 10:22).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 9. A Torah word with the same number is בוא — “to come, enter” (Genesis 2:19).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 18. A Torah word with the same number is חי — “living” (Genesis 1:20).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 156. A Torah word with the same number is יוסף — “Joseph, son of Jacob” (Genesis 30:24).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 1617.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 51. A Torah word with the same number is אכל — “to eat” (Genesis 2:16).
The letters that come out are תקי — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 510. A Torah word with the same number is ירש — “to inherit, possess” (Genesis 15:3).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 625. A Torah word with the same number is גברתך — “your mistress” (Genesis 16:9).
The number 45 appears in the classical books 92 times across 42 works. The earliest mention is מדרש לפירושים (~1450?).
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 — 45. 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. אדם has 3 letters: א Alef, ד Dalet, ם final Mem. The first letter is Alef, the last is final Mem.
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The name אדם appears in the Torah as a word 33 times. The first time is Genesis 1:26. Another 84 times it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
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 אדם these are א and מ. The Pentateuch has 83 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 2:4:
אלה תולדות השמים והארץ בהבראם ביום עשות ה׳ אלהים ארץ ושמים
This is from the portion Bereshit. What it is about: Creation in six days and the Sabbath; Adam and Eve in the garden; Cain and Abel; ten generations to Noah.
The name אדם has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 45 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.
