Dan — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Dan in Hebrew letters is דן. 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.
דן
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is דן. “He has judged” (Genesis 30:6). Jacob’s fifth son; the tribe of Dan marched at the rear of the camp. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 54 — the same as the Torah word מטה, “a branch”. That number points to Torah page 54 of 354 — in the portion Vayetzei. What that portion is about: The dream of the ladder to heaven; Jacob with Laban: Leah and Rachel; eleven sons are born; the return. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Leviticus 23:10. 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 דן gives 54.
54
The number 54 is the Torah word מטה — «a branch» (Genesis 38:18).
Fifty-four weekly portions of the Torah.
The number 54, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 54 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis). These are its opening words:
ביום אכלני חרב וקרח בלילה ותדד שנתי מעיני …
The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 31:40:
הָיִיתִי בַיּוֹם אֲכָלַנִי חֹרֶב וְקֶרַח בַּלָּיְלָה וַתִּדַּד שְׁנָתִי מֵעֵינָי
Thus I was: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.
This is from the portion Vayetzei. What it is about: The dream of the ladder to heaven; Jacob with Laban: Leah and Rachel; eleven sons are born; the return.
The same number, 54, is given by these biblical names:
דן · מדי · זבדיאל · בנב
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) — 704. A Torah word with the same number is חצרות — “Chatseroth, a place in Palestine” (Numbers 11:35).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 9. A Torah word with the same number is בוא — “to go or come” (Genesis 2:19).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 18. A Torah word with the same number is חי — “alive” (Genesis 1:20).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 205. A Torah word with the same number is הר — “a mountain or range of hills” (Genesis 7:19).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 2516.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 58. A Torah word with the same number is נח — “Noach, the patriarch of the flood” (Genesis 5:29).
The word that comes out is קט. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 109. A Torah word with the same number is צידה — “food” (Genesis 27:3).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 540. A Torah word with the same number is שמר — “to hedge about” (Genesis 2:15).
The number 54 appears in the classical books 3 times across 3 works. The earliest mention is מגלה עמוקות (~1637).
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The name דן appears in the Torah as a word 26 times. The first time is Genesis 14:14. Another 2 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 דן these are ד and נ. The Pentateuch has 3 such verses. The first of them is Leviticus 23:10:
דבר אל בני ישראל ואמרת אלהם כי תבאו אל הארץ אשר אני נתן לכם וקצרתם את קצירה והבאתם את עמר ראשית קצירכם אל הכהן
This is from the portion Emor. What it is about: Laws of the priests; animals without blemish; the calendar of festivals — from the Sabbath to Sukkot; the lamp and the showbread.
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) — 704. A Torah word with the same number is חצרות — “Chatseroth, a place in Palestine” (Numbers 11:35).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 9. A Torah word with the same number is בוא — “to go or come” (Genesis 2:19).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 18. A Torah word with the same number is חי — “alive” (Genesis 1:20).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 205. A Torah word with the same number is הר — “a mountain or range of hills” (Genesis 7:19).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 2516.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 58. A Torah word with the same number is נח — “Noach, the patriarch of the flood” (Genesis 5:29).
The word that comes out is קט. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 109. A Torah word with the same number is צידה — “food” (Genesis 27:3).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 540. A Torah word with the same number is שמר — “to hedge about” (Genesis 2:15).
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 54
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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