📅The Jewish calendar — the date, the parsha, the molad, the daf

The Jewish date is the spine of the whole app. The siddur knows the hour because the calendar knows the day; the chumash opens on the parsha for the same reason. This page is about that spine made visible.

You get today: the Hebrew date, the parsha, the molad when it is relevant, the daf, what is special about the week. And you get the year, so you can look forward to a date and see what it lands on — the thing everybody needs twice a year and cannot find when they need it.

There is also a seasonal shelf, which is one of the quieter good ideas in the product. Things that belong to a season — the machzor, selichos, the Omer, the fast-day tefillos — come to the front when their time arrives and step back when it passes. Nothing is ever removed: they all stay in the app the whole year round, and search finds any of them in any month. They are simply not in front of you in the wrong season, which is the difference between an app that knows what time of year it is and an app that does not.

The date arithmetic runs on the device. No signal, no account, no lookup to a server that might be down on the one Friday afternoon you actually needed it.