Get to know the traditional Bentching tunes. The Bentching App  is a unique and personal way to learn the traditional Jewish “Grace After Meals” prayers & tunes. Based on highly acclaimed “Complete Bentching CD“  by Cantor Adam Davis. Adam Davis, is an Orthodox Chazan of the Linksfield Senderwood Hebrew Congregation in Johannesburg, South Africa. His vocal repertoire spans the Classical, [...]

Keep the Jewish tradition and display the acronym ,בס”ד on the home screen of your iPhone. If a piece of writing is intended to be kept for at least a short amount of time, there is a firmly established custom to start by writing an acknowledgement of Divine assistance at the top of the page. [...]

Alerts for Mincha prayer times that adjust automatically and in the background according to the date and your location. How it works: – Launch Mincha Alerts once and configure the alerts you wish to receive. – From now on you’ll receive automatically adjusted alerts for the right times for the Mincha prayer. Benefits: – When [...]

“The Ohel” is where the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, was laid to rest on the 3rd of Tammuz 5754 (June 12, 1994), next to his father-in-law, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Y. Schneersohn, of righteous memory. The term Ohel (lit. “tent”) refers to the structure built over the resting [...]

In the Sephardic tradition, Selichot are said beginning with the month of  Elul, through Yom Kippur to help worshipers direct their hearts and minds to the process of teshuvah, repentance.  At the Selichot service, worshipers begin to examine their deeds of the past year,  seeking forgiveness from G-d, and promising to improve their behavior in the New Year. In the Ashkenazic tradition, [...]

Sponsor the development of an Android app for @TheKotel (free app to send prayers to Jerusalem) Over two years ago, Tweet Your Prayers @TheKotel was born. The service allows people from all locations and denominations to send their prayers to the Western Wall in Jerusalem (The Kotel), for free. It was originally launched on Twitter [...]

Zmanim – new app created by Moshe Berman – is a simple way to keep track of your local Halachic times in realtime. With the help of this app you can find out the daily schedule of prayers, candlelighting and the end of Shabbat or a holiday. You can view times that are relevant to [...]

Veten Bracha is a book based on a series of shiurim on Hilchot Berachot given by Rabbi Isaac Dich (Congregação Mekor Haim, Sao Paulo, Brazil) in 2002.  App in Portuguese and Hebrew. A recitação das berachot (bênçãos) anteriores e posteriores ao consumo de alimentos é de extrema importância no Judaísmo. Já que a devida concentração e [...]

This short prayer, Tefilat HaDerech (Traveller’s Prayer) is a Jewish prayer for a safe journey (any form, whether by land, sea or air) requesting protection as all journeys are subject to some degree of danger. It should be recited at the beginning of any journey. This version includes texts in Hebrew, Transliteration, and English, French, [...]

Write a letter to the Rebbe. In this letter, write anything that goes through your mind, or just ask a question. Once you wrote your letter, press the DONE button and you will see a reply letter from the Rebbe. This letter is randomly generated by the app and comes from a compilation of  letters [...]

The Torah was given by G‑d to the Jewish people on Mount Sinai more than 3300 years ago. Every year on the holiday of  Shavuot we renew our acceptance of G‑d’s gift and G‑d “re-gives” the Torah.  Shavuot falls on June 8-9 this year. The word Shavuot means “weeks.” It marks the completion of the seven week counting period between Passover and Shavuot. [...]

Special Prayer  app presents 18 unique daily prayers that were chosen with the intention of providing you with the most relevant meaning to your personal wishes. The daily prayers are focused on key subjects such as good health, mutual relationships (love),  livelihood etc. The prayers are presented in English, Hebrew and in a phonetic Hebrew [...]

Developed for iPhone and iPad by Behrman House iTorah Blessings is a resource for anyone who wants to learn the blessings before and after the reading of the Torah. iTorah Blessings also includes the Shehecheyanu and the blessing of a parent for a child. A video demonstration in the app describes all the details of how [...]

Any Tolkein fans will recognise Gollum’s famous riddle to the hobbit: This thing all things devours; Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town; And beats high mountain down. And of course when our hobbit panics and pleads for more “time, time” to work out the [...]

According to the Torah, we are obligated to count the days from Passover to Shavuot. This period is known as the Counting of the Omer. An omer is a unit of measure. On the second day of Passover, in the days of the Temple, an omer of barley was cut down and brought to the Temple [...]