The name Laadan in Hebrew letters is לעדן. 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.
לעדן
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is לעדן. A Tanakh name: the name of two Israelites (first in 1 Chronicles 7:26; 7 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 154 — the same as the Torah word נקד, “speckled”. That number points to Torah page 154 of 354 — in the portion Vayakhel. What that portion is about: The Sabbath comes before the work on the Sanctuary; the people bring more than enough; Bezalel and the craftsmen build the Tabernacle. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 5:7. 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 לעדן gives 154.
154
The number 154 is the Torah word נקד — «speckled» (Genesis 30:32).
the plaited garments, for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.'
This is from the portion Vayakhel. What it is about: The Sabbath comes before the work on the Sanctuary; the people bring more than enough; Bezalel and the craftsmen build the Tabernacle.
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) — 804. A Torah word with the same number is תשמטנה — “you shall let it rest” (Exodus 23:11).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 19. A Torah word with the same number is גוי — “nation” (Genesis 10:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 46. A Torah word with the same number is מאה — “hundred” (Genesis 5:3).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 635. A Torah word with the same number is שלשה — “three” (Genesis 6:10).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 8316.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 388. A Torah word with the same number is שלחן — “table” (Exodus 25:23).
The letters that come out are כזקט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 136. A Torah word with the same number is קול — “voice, sound” (Genesis 3:8).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 744. A Torah word with the same number is שותלח — “Shuthelah, son of Ephraim” (Numbers 26:35).
The number 154 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 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 — 154. 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. לעדן has 4 letters: ל Lamed, ע Ayin, ד Dalet, ן final Nun. The first letter is Lamed, the last is final Nun.
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The name לעדן 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 לעדן these are ל and נ. The Pentateuch has 10 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 5:7:
לא תאספון לתת תבן לעם ללבן הלבנים כתמול שלשם הם ילכו וקששו להם תבן
This is from the portion Shemot. What it is about: Slavery in Egypt; Moses in the basket on the Nile; the burning bush and the Name; the first audience with Pharaoh.
«the plaited garments, for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.'»
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.
