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Three minutes narrated on the walk. The written version at home. A question box that answers from the page or says it doesn't know.
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The Daf Yomi every morning at three levels, with the Gemara, Rashi and Tosafot in the printed layout and the Steinsaltz and Davidson elucidations under each line.
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A short video of every day's page: the lines light up as they're read.
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Tanakh with Rashi, Ramban, Ibn Ezra and more. All 63 tractates of Mishnah with Bartenura. The whole Bavli. The Zohar with a Hebrew translation, and the Musar shelf.
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Tap any line to see where it is quoted and what it quotes. A verse opens the sugya that reads it; the sugya opens the verse.
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Who is this rabbi, why does the Gemara jump, what does this word mean. Answered from the page and its commentaries, quoting what it stands on. Three a day free.
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Berakhot 2a, at the middle level
מֵאֵימָתַי קוֹרִין אֶת שְׁמַע בָּעֲרָבִין?
Look at the first word. From when. Not what the Shema is, not whether you must say it. The mishnah assumes you know, and goes straight to the timetable. And that is what troubles the Gemara: its first question in the whole Talmud is not about law. It is about context. Where is the tanna standing?
תַּנָּא אַקְּרָא קָאֵי, דִּכְתִיב: ״בְּשָׁכְבְּךָ וּבְקוּמֶךָ״.
He is standing on the verse, and in the verse lying down comes before rising. That is the first page: not an opening, a continuation.
The full explanation, and the beginner and daily-learner versions of the same page. Or open Berakhot 2a in the reader.
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Every text, the daily daf with its explanation and narration, three questions a day. No ads for the first three days, seven with an email; then one between pages, never beside the text, never on Shabbat.
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A hundred questions a day, any page narrated in your language, and the daily explanation rewritten for exactly where you are.
An explanation on every page you open, deep dives across the Talmud, a study partner that remembers what you've learned.
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Why a few people in Israel are building this
Because the distance is real. Between here and where you live, between the generation that learned and the one that didn't, between the people who were handed these books and the people who were handed the idea that the books weren't for them. Plenty of men come to it at forty because there is a son with a bar mitzvah coming and nothing to hand him. That is as good a reason as any, and better than most.
We can't close all of that distance. We can put the page in your hand every morning, in your language, at your level, with nothing between you and it. You are not a user to us. You're the person the whole thing is for, and the one who decides whether it reaches the next. Read a page. If it was worth it, send it to someone. That is honestly how this grows.
Questions people ask us
Is this for religious people?
It's for anyone who wants to read the text. Nothing in the app asks what you keep or believe. Plenty of people learning Daf Yomi are secular, or unsure, or somewhere in between.
I don't read Hebrew. Is that a problem?
No. Every explanation exists in English on its own. The Hebrew and Aramaic are always beside it, vocalized, if you want to look.
Is the explanation written by a rabbi or by AI?
Drafted by AI from the page and its classical commentaries, then checked: every quotation is verified against the source text by code, and a quote that isn't there stops the build. How it's checked, and by whom.
What happens on Shabbat?
The app goes quiet, from candle lighting to havdalah, based on your location. You can still read. Nothing pushes, nothing sells.
Three minutes. Today's page. Nobody asks who you are.
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