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iBless Torah

By | March 5th, 2010 | Category: iPhone/iPad, Prayers, Shabbat, Tanach | 1 Comment »

iBless Torah turns your iPhone into a bar mitzvah tutor (for iBless Torah for Android click here).  iBless Torah includes the full text of the blessings recited before and after the Torah and Haftarah readings, complete with audio, vowelized Hebrew and transliterated text.  Learn to chant the Torah and Haftarah blessings.

iBless Torah displays the text of the blessings in the original Hebrew and English transliteration on screen, and chants the text, highlighting each word as it is pronounced. Users can pause after each section, tap and listen again, or go forward to the next section. iBless Torah includes the text and audio of the short blessings recited before and after the reading of the Torah, as well as the text and audio of the longer blessings recited before and after the Haftarah, the prophetic reading recited after the Torah portion. The program also includes information about the history and importance of the Torah reading in the synagogue.

iBless Torah is ideal for Bar Mitzvah students, or for anyone who wants to learn the Torah and Haftarah blessings. The reading of the Torah is an integral part of the synagogue services, and Bar Mitzvah celebrants mark their ascension to Jewish adulthood by being called to the Torah to recite these blessings.

Compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad

Category: Education
Released: Mar 04, 2010
Publisher: Davka Corporation
Price: $1.99 (buy app)

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  • http://soulfulthought.blogspot.com/ Moshe Sharon

    In the building of the Tabernacle as described in the the last four Parashahs of Shemos (Exodus) G-d commanded that Shittim (Acacia wood) be used for the Ark, table, carrying poles and support beams. Since the Jews were in the desert where nothing grows, as Rashi points out, the only way they could have had the wood available was if they carried it from Egypt. Thus, Rashi concluded that Jacob brought seedling Acacia trees from Canaan and transplanted them in Goshen in anticipation of the need to fulfill the Mitzvah of building the Tabernacle. So it appears that Shittim wood was part of the plan and when called for, the lumber was prepared and ready. The Acacia tree has a rough exterior with a thick homely bark and long sharp thorns growing out of its branches while sporting lush green leaves and beautiful flowers at certain times of the year. Thus in order to make this tree suitable for such Holy service the rough exterior has to be peeled off and the wood must be smoothed over with an abrasive cloth. This procedure is called refinement and it indeed is a painful process. But, when we apply this principle to ourselves we can see that every hardship we endure individually and as a nation is a gift because with every moment of suffering HaShem brings us closer to the eternal rapture of basking in His G-dly light.