🌱Kabbalos, and l'zechus — the things you took on, and who for

Somebody is niftar, or somebody is sick, or it is the Yomim Noraim, and a person takes something on. Something small and real: a few minutes of learning, an amen said properly, not saying a particular thing about people.

Two weeks later it is gone. Not abandoned — forgotten, which is worse, because nobody even got to decide.

Lechem gives kabbalos a home, and puts them where you will meet them again in the ordinary course of a day rather than in a list you would have to remember to open. It does not chase you and it does not scold you. If a kabbalah has quietly stopped, Lechem shows you that plainly, which is enough for most people and is the most an app should do.

Alongside it there is l'zechus: a place to say who what you are doing is for. A person, a refuah, a neshamah. It rides along quietly with the practice rather than being a separate ceremony, so the intention is there without you having to reconstruct it each time.

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