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The year 5722 תשכ״ב

5722 in the Jewish calendar is written ה׳תשכ״ב — the ה is the 5,000 years, and the letters after it are the 722 since. Written on its own, as it is on nearly every page that carries a date, the year is תשכ״ב, and those letters add to 722.

The letters, and what each is worth

ת400ש300כ20ב2תשכ״ב722

400 + 300 + 20 + 2 = 722, 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״ב: the first letter carries the 5,000. In ordinary use it is left off and the year is written תשכ״ב 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 5,722, and 722 is what its letters spell.

What the letters spell

The four letters in this order are also a word of the twenty-four books, standing 11 times. See where →

722 in the Tanakh

70 words, 881 phrases and 1 whole verse carry the value 722 under the standard method — 951 matches in all.

Open the page for 722 →

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.