Lechem
Everything Lechem carries
A real page for each one: what it is, why it matters, and how Lechem holds it.
35 write-ups · 114 screens in the phone app
The brachos
Meah Brachos — the hundred blessings of a day
A Jew makes about a hundred brachos a day. Lechem keeps the count quietly, on your own phone, and shows you where you stand — never as a score anyone else sees.
Read the whole thingThe brachos — all of them, carried for you
Every bracha Lechem knows, laid out plainly, with the right words for Shabbos, Rosh Chodesh and Chanukah added where they belong — and a way to hear one said if you are not sure.
Read the whole thingWhat's the bracha on this?
You are holding something and you are not sure. Look it up by name, by picture, or by pointing the camera at the label — and Lechem tells you the bracha before and the bracha after.
Read the whole thingThe brachos on what you see — a rainbow, thunder, the sea
The brachos almost nobody says, because they come once in a long while and by the time you have looked them up the moment is gone. Lechem keeps them one tap away.
Read the whole thingShiurim — how much is enough, in things you can actually see
A kzayis, a revi'is, the amount that obliges a bracha acharona — given in measures a person can picture, with the different opinions named rather than flattened into one.
Read the whole thingHafrashas challah — the amounts, and what to do
How much flour obliges it, when it is taken with a bracha and when without, and the steps in order — for the person baking on Thursday night who does not want to phone anybody.
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The davening
The siddur that knows what day it is
The whole siddur, opening on the tefillah that belongs to this hour of this day — with the additions for Shabbos, Rosh Chodesh and Yom Tov already in place, not left for you to remember.
Read the whole thingDavening with a minyan — and answering amen
Where to go and when, kept as a plain list rather than a map you have to fight; and a small screen for the amens, which are the easiest mitzvah in the world to miss.
Read the whole thingThe machzor, and selichos
The tefillos of the Yomim Noraim, and the selichos of the weeks that lead into them — present when their season comes, and out of the way the rest of the year.
Read the whole thingTehillim — including the kapitel for a name, and when it is urgent
The whole of Tehillim, the letters of a name picked out of kapitel 119 without you counting them, and a screen for the moment somebody needs it right now.
Read the whole thingThe names you daven for
The people you carry — the sick, the ones waiting, the ones you promised — kept in one place, in the right form, so you are not reconstructing a name from memory at the wrong moment.
Read the whole thingAt a kever — what people say, and how it is done
For the visit to a parent, or to a tzadik, or to a place you have not been in years — the order of it, the customs, and the names you meant to bring with you.
Read the whole thingAsk your Rav — and keep what he told you
Lechem is a helper and a reminder, never a ruling. So it makes it easy to ask, and — the part nobody does — easy to still have the answer eighteen months later.
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The learning
Chumash — the whole of it, opening on the parsha
The five books, in Hebrew type built to be read rather than squinted at, opening where the week actually is — and there without a signal.
Read the whole thingChitas — 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.
Read the whole thingShnayim Mikra — kept properly, without keeping score
The one weekly obligation that is almost entirely a matter of tracking: which possuk, which pass, how far you got before Shabbos. Lechem holds the place so you can just say it.
Read the whole thingNeviim and Kesuvim — the whole Tanach, all twenty-four
The rest of Tanach, in the same readable type as the chumash, on the device and available with no signal — the haftorah included, opening on the week you are in.
Read the whole thingThe 613 mitzvos, as a list a person can actually walk
The whole count laid out plainly, so it stops being a number people quote and becomes something you can look through and recognise.
Read the whole thingTzitzis, tefillin and tallis
The mitzvos a man wears: what is checked before, what is said, the order of it — for the morning you are somewhere unfamiliar and it has stopped being automatic.
Read the whole thingMinhagim — including the ones your family has and never wrote down
What different communities do, said as differences rather than flattened into one practice — and a place to write down your own house's, before the person who knows them is gone.
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The day and the year
Zmanim — the times of the day, where you actually are
Alos, netz, sof zman krias shema, chatzos, mincha, shkia, tzeis — for your place and today, with the opinions named rather than silently averaged.
Read the whole thingCandle lighting — the time, and the Friday it belongs to
The lighting time for where you are, and a printable Friday card with everything the house needs on it — for the hours when the phone is about to be put down.
Read the whole thingShabbos and Yom Tov — an app that knows to stop
Lechem goes quiet when Shabbos comes in. No notification is ever scheduled across candle lighting, and everything you would want in your hand is on paper before it starts.
Read the whole thingThe Jewish calendar — the date, the parsha, the molad, the daf
Today's Hebrew date and everything hanging off it, plus a shelf of the things that only come round in their season — which stay in the app all year and stay out of your way.
Read the whole thingSefiras haOmer — the count, and not missing a night
Tonight's count, in the right form, at the right time of night — and an honest record of whether last night was actually counted, because that is the question the whole thing turns on.
Read the whole thingThe fast days — when they begin, when they end, and what is said
Each fast with its own times for where you are, the tefillos that belong to it, and — for Tisha b'Av — Eichah and the kinnos in their order.
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The people, and the rest of it
Yahrtzeits — kept, converted, and remembered before the day
The dates you keep, in the Jewish calendar where they belong, with warning far enough ahead to actually arrange something — and the leap-year problem solved once instead of every year.
Read the whole thingThe household — and the corner a parent sets up for a child
A parent sets up the house. Each person's practice is their own. A young child has a corner where the pictures do the talking, and nothing is asked of a child that a child should not be asked.
Read the whole thingCircles — the people you belong to, without a leaderboard
Your shul, your chaburah, your family. A record of where you belong — and a design rule that no one is ever ranked against anyone.
Read the whole thingKabbalos, and l'zechus — the things you took on, and who for
The small resolutions people take on and quietly lose, held somewhere they will be met again — and a place to say who what you do is for.
Read the whole thingYour routine, set once — and reminders that know when to stay quiet
Tell Lechem what an ordinary day of yours looks like, once. After that it stops asking, and the reminders it does send never land on Shabbos or Yom Tov.
Read the whole thingFinding anything — search, the glance, and talking to it
Every screen Lechem has ever had is findable by search — including the older ones nothing points at any more, because in Lechem nothing is ever removed.
Read the whole thingYour data — where it lives, and what Lechem admits it does not know
Your practice lives on your phone. There is no advertising, no tracking and no analytics of any kind — and a screen whose whole job is to list what Lechem gets wrong.
Read the whole thingSetting Lechem up — and being heard when something is wrong
A few questions at the start, then it leaves you alone. And on every single screen, a way to send a report — with a screenshot, a recording or your voice attached.
Read the whole thingYour pushke, and mitzvos near you
The mosdos you give to, kept as your own list — and the ordinary chances to do something that are near you and that you would otherwise never hear about.
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