Lechem
The 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.
Lechem is a helper and a reminder. It is never a ruling. For anything halachic, ask your Rav.
These are the brachos of seeing. A rainbow. Lightning and thunder. The ocean, when you have not seen it in a long time. A tree in bloom in its season. A person of great learning. A place where something happened.
They have a particular problem: they arrive without warning and they do not wait. By the time you have found the right words, the lightning is over and the rainbow has gone. So people go a whole lifetime knowing these brachos exist and never once saying one.
Lechem holds them where a person can actually reach them — grouped by what you are looking at, so you are not scrolling an alphabetical list while the sky changes. That is the entire ambition of the screen. It is not trying to teach you the sugya; it is trying to get the words into your mouth in the eight seconds you have.
Where the halacha genuinely depends on circumstances — how long since you last saw it, whether it is the season, whether you can see the whole of it — Lechem says so plainly rather than choosing for you, and points you to your Rav.
In the app
The screens this page is about, with the app’s own names for them.
- Nature brachos