The name Darejan in Hebrew letters is דרג׳אן. 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.
דרג׳אן
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is דרג׳אן. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 258 — the same as the Torah word חרן, “Haran, city in Mesopotamia”. That number points to Torah page 258 of 354 — in the portion Chukat. What that portion is about: The red heifer; Miriam's death; water from the rock and the striking with the staff; Aaron's death; the bronze serpent. 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.
You wrote “Darejan” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: דרג׳אן. A name from the Tanakh — its Tanakh spelling is used. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
Adding up the letters of the name דרג׳אן gives 258.
258
The number 258 is the Torah word חרן — «Haran, city in Mesopotamia» (Genesis 11:31).
Whosoever toucheth the dead, even the body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself--he hath defiled the tabernacle of HaShem--that soul shall be cut off from Israel; because the water of sprinkling was not dashed against him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.
This is from the portion Chukat. What it is about: The red heifer; Miriam's death; water from the rock and the striking with the staff; Aaron's death; the bronze serpent.
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) — 908. A Torah word with the same number is חרשת — “cutting, carving” (Exodus 31:5).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 15. A Torah word with the same number is זוב — “to flow” (Exodus 3:8).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 42. A Torah word with the same number is חדל — “to cease” (Genesis 11:8).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1007.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 42526.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 881. A Torah word with the same number is שקערורה — “depression, hollow” (Leviticus 14:37).
The letters that come out are קגרתט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 712. A Torah word with the same number is יבשת — “dry land” (Exodus 4:9).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1244.
The number 258 appears in the classical books 5 times across 3 works. The earliest mention is עץ חיים (~1573).
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 — 258. 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. דרג׳אן has 5 letters: ד Dalet, ר Resh, ג Gimel, א Alef, ן final Nun. The first letter is Dalet, the last is final Nun.
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The name דרג׳אן does not stand as a word in the Pentateuch — as with most names, including many Tanakh names from the later books.
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 דרג׳אן 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 דרג׳אן has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 258 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.
