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, “staff, tribe”. 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. Every figure can be checked by hand.
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Adding up the letters of the name דן gives 54.
54
The number 54 is the Torah word מטה — «staff, tribe» (Genesis 38:18).
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.
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) — 704. A Torah word with the same number is חצרות — “Hazeroth, desert campsite” (Numbers 11:35).
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) — 205. A Torah word with the same number is הר — “mountain” (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 — “Noah” (Genesis 5:29).
The letters that come out are קט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. 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 — “provisions, game” (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 keep, guard” (Genesis 2:15).
The number 54 appears in the classical books 3 times across 3 works. The earliest mention is מגלה עמוקות (~1637).
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 — 54. 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. דן has 2 letters: ד Dalet, ן final Nun. The first letter is Dalet, the last is final Nun.
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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.
The name דן has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 54 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.
