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The year 5801 תת״א

5801 in the Jewish calendar is written ה׳תת״א — the ה is the 5,000 years, and the letters after it are the 801 since. Written on its own, as it is on nearly every page that carries a date, the year is תת״א, and those letters add to 801.

The letters, and what each is worth

ת400ת400א1תת״א801

400 + 400 + 1 = 801, 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׳תת״א: the first letter carries the 5,000. In ordinary use it is left off and the year is written תת״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 5,801, and 801 is what its letters spell.

What the letters spell

No word of the twenty-four books is written תתא, though the same letters rearranged do spell words the text uses. The year’s letters are a numeral here, not a word, and this page will not make one out of them.

801 in the Tanakh

17 words and 875 phrases carry the value 801 under the standard method — 892 matches in all.

Open the page for 801 →

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.