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The year 5717 תשי״ז

5717 in the Jewish calendar is written ה׳תשי״ז — the ה is the 5,000 years, and the letters after it are the 717 since. Written on its own, as it is on nearly every page that carries a date, the year is תשי״ז, and those letters add to 717.

The letters, and what each is worth

ת400ש300י10ז7תשי״ז717

400 + 300 + 10 + 7 = 717, computed by the same engine that computes every value on this site, over the same consonantal letters.

Why the five thousand is missing

The full form is ה׳תשי״ז: the first letter carries the 5,000. In ordinary use it is left off and the year is written תשי״ז followed by לפ״ק — lifrat katan, “by the minor reckoning”, which is the writer saying out loud that the thousands have been dropped. It is a habit of writing and not a claim about the number: the year is 5,717, and 717 is what its letters spell.

What the letters spell

No word of the twenty-four books is written תשיז — nor is any word written with these letters in any other order. The year’s letters are a numeral here, not a word, and this page will not make one out of them.

717 in the Tanakh

41 words and 892 phrases carry the value 717 under the standard method — 933 matches in all.

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The letters of a Jewish year are a numeral, and this page treats them as one. Every value here is the engine’s, computed on the consonantal letters at the moment the page is served, and every count is read from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Nothing on this page is a prediction.