
Siddur and Zmanim
siddur daily tefillah, zmanim
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1.21.0
September 21, 2026
THE AMIDAH NOW SHOWS WHERE ONE BOWS The siddur said it once only, in a rubric above Modim. It now says it in all four places, and only there: at the opening and the seal of Avot, at the opening and the seal of the Hoda'ah. "Baruch Atah" comes back some thirty times in the Amidah, and one bows at four of them — the other seals carry nothing, and that is deliberate. A banner announces the gesture before you reach it; the words are marked in the text, in Hebrew, in transliteration and in the translation; a tap opens a card with the rule and its source. Also the three steps before the Amidah, and at Oseh Shalom the three steps back and then the three bows, each with its phrase. AND WHAT CHANGES TODAY The right text was already shown for the day, but nothing said that it had changed: during the Ten Days of Repentance, seven passages were replaced in silence. At the head of the Amidah, a card for the day announces what changes, in the order of the text, and leads to each passage; it also says what is recited afterwards, and it does not appear on an ordinary day. Ya'aleh VeYavo on Rosh Chodesh and Chol HaMoed, Al HaNissim on Chanukah and Purim, Anenu on fast days, Nachem on Tisha B'Av, Atah Chonantanu at the close of Shabbat: each one is now framed, and the day it names is highlighted inside it. Changed words are highlighted where they stand. Whatever, if forgotten, means starting the Amidah again is set apart from the rest — and not by colour alone. The word of the season is marked only during the thirty days that follow the changeover. A tap says when it is recited, and what to do if you forgot it. Both can be switched off in the reading settings. No vibration, no sound: the app never interrupts someone who is praying. These indications have not yet been reviewed by a competent authority, and every card says so. THE TEXT ITSELF Corrected, and silent until now: the French of the Ten Days, where six passages out of seven carried the translation of an ordinary day; Sim Shalom, which recited BeSefer Chaim all year round; the translation of Ribono shel Olam at Mincha on a fast day; five rubric remnants welded to the Hebrew text. A MISTAKE IN THE TEXT? Settings → About → "Report a mistake in the text". The message goes out with the version and the device already filled in — you only have to describe the mistake, and the correction lands in the next update. The text of this siddur has been proofread. But it runs to 2,464 segments, and you are the one who reads it every morning.
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