Lechem
Circles — 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.
People do not do these things alone. A person belongs to a shul, to a chaburah, to a family, to a place they learn — and the mitzvos of a week are lifted by all of them.
Circles is where Lechem holds that. Where you belong, what you belong to, and what those affiliations mean for your own day — the shiur that is yours, the fast the community keeps, the practice of the place you daven.
What Circles is not, and will never be, is a scoreboard. There is no public leaderboard of who made more brachos, no ranking of one person against another, and no number of yours that anybody else can see. This is not a privacy setting; it is a red line in the product. The merit is shared the way the half-shekel is shared: everyone counts, no one is counted against anyone.
The one shared thing that is envisioned — a group counting together, a chaburah lifting each other — is a collective total, never a list of who contributed what. Nothing here is built to be compared.
What is not built yet
- Today a circle is your own private record of a group you belong to. It is not a membership: actually sharing it with your shul or chaburah, and counting together, is still to come — exactly as the store listing says.
In the app
The screens this page is about, with the app’s own names for them.
- Circles
- Where you belong
- Points
- Mitzvah exchange