The year 5721 תשכ״א
5721 in the Jewish calendar is written ה׳תשכ״א — the ה is the 5,000 years, and the letters after it are the 721 since. Written on its own, as it is on nearly every page that carries a date, the year is תשכ״א, and those letters add to 721.
The letters, and what each is worth
400 + 300 + 20 + 1 = 721, 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׳תשכ״א: the first letter carries the 5,000. In ordinary use it is left off and the year is written תשכ״א 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 5,721, and 721 is what its letters spell.
What the letters spell
No word of the twenty-four books is written תשכא — 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.
721 in the Tanakh
40 words, 825 phrases and 1 whole verse carry the value 721 under the standard method — 865 matches in all.
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.