Lechem
Chitas — today's portion, already worked out
The daily cycle, opened on today's portion rather than on a table of contents — with a quiet timer for the seder you set aside, if you keep one.
The whole difficulty with a daily cycle is not the learning. It is the bookkeeping: which portion is today, whether you are behind, what a leap year does to the schedule, what happens over Yom Tov.
Lechem does that arithmetic and gets out of the way. You open it and today is in front of you. There is no page to find and no calendar to consult, and the day does not shift because you opened the app at one in the morning instead of eleven at night — the app knows what a Jewish day is.
Alongside it there is a timer for the seder you keep. Not a stopwatch that judges you: a quiet way to mark that you sat down and for how long, for a person who has a fixed time and wants it to be real. There is no target, no streak, and nothing that scolds you for a day you missed.
Everything is on the device, so a day of learning does not depend on a signal, and nothing about it is reported anywhere. Your learning is yours.
In the app
The screens this page is about, with the app’s own names for them.
- Chitas
- Learning time