What you're looking at. Today's date maps onto several nested cycles at once — a day, a week, a month, a season, a year — each drawn from a different Kabbalistic or textual structure. Every card below is one of those cycles.
What to do. Tap any card to open its texts. A heading marked ✦ carries a counted step, with a מעלה or מיעוט tag beside it — tap those in order, fifteen down and fifteen back, and the moon above fills as you go. Tap a ✡, or a Rebbe’s menorah, to gather what you learn beyond the thirty. Tap a prayer in a card’s left margin when you have prayed it — those may be marked in any order. Tap the moon itself for the whole path.
The shape of a day. The climb belongs to one hour: the fifteen מעלות are taken together in the Mochin — Chochmah, Binah, and Keter/Da’at — the eighty-eight minutes wrapped around Chatzot. The rest of the day then walks the Sefirot in turn, and each hour asks for everything that is its own: its מיעוט, its prayer, its ✡ companions, its Rebbe’s menorah from Chesed down — and the מעלה already climbed there, returned to and reviewed.
However you come to it. That is the ideal, and nothing depends on reaching it. The path can be joined at any hour and still be finished: the hour only says what it is asking for, and a step is marked when it was actually done, not when its hour has passed. Anyone who would rather take a single resource, or stay with one card, is welcome to — the main thing is to learn Torah and to pray as we fulfill our day’s acts of kindness. What this offers is a way to bind that learning and that prayer, and ourselves, to time, and to the beautifully intricate Kabbalistic structure found within it.
Where to start. The Today’s Focus block, just under the date — it names the next step to take and goes straight to it.
Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the Alter Rebbe, famously stated that we must "live with the times," thereby experiencing the teachings of the Torah related to each day of the year. Every day of the Jewish calendar has a unique meaning.
The calendar is the master key to unlock the hidden rationale behind the formal structure of ancient sacred texts, as well as to understand basic mystical concepts. When comprehended within the context of the Jewish calendar, these works reveal the spiritual energy of each day, serving as a practical guide for self-analysis and development.
During this daily journey, we learn to live with greater harmony, happiness and gratitude — from the Kabbalah, from age-old Jewish ethical teachings, and even from animals. The objective is to be in touch with the spiritual powers of each day, thereby improving one's daily conduct and rediscovering the universal song within each one of us: the song of the soul.
Below, each card opens with the Kabbalistic structure that defines it, and carries beneath it the text that structure measures. Most are built on the week — the Torah's weekly Parasha, or the Omer's count of weeks — layered with shorter and longer spans: 13 attributes, the 22 letters, the Rambam's 28 days, 40 days of receiving the Torah, the 72-fold Name, the four seasons of 91 — each one a single running and returning around its own heart — and the full 364-day year. Ma'alot HaZman above does the reverse, spiraling the whole year upward through the hours of a single day. Tap the ⓘ at the corner of any card to learn what its cycle means. All converge on this moment, each adding its own spiritual dimension to today.
Alongside the readings runs the day's prayer. Each Sefirah carries one — Hitbodedut in Keter, Shacharit in Tiferet, Mincha in Hod, Maariv in Yesod, Kri'at Shema in Malchut, and so through all ten. The prayer whose hour has come pulses gently in the card until it is said; marking it turns it red, and a heart in the Now card fills as the day's ten accumulate. Whole, it carries both verses at once: ואהבת את ה׳ אלוקיך בכל לבבך and ואהבת לרעך כמוך — for as the Baal Shem Tov taught through the Maggid and the Alter Rebbe, loving your fellow is the commentary on loving Hashem, since what one loves in him is the part of God Above within him.
The day itself traces a lunar month. Fifteen ma'alot — steps up — ascend from Malchut back to Keter as the moon in the clock above waxes to fullness, arriving in the hours of the Mochin, when "the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun" (Isaiah 30:26) — the day's own Shavuot, the fiftieth gate at the top of the climb; then fifteen steps of listening come back down from Keter to Malchut as the moon wanes and makes itself small — doing, then hearing: נעשה ונשמע. Tap the moon at any time to see Today's Path.
That verse of Isaiah has an end, and it is the end this whole app is counting toward. Twelve chapters later the sun and the moon are not raised but set aside — the light no longer coming through either of them. It is the close of the haftarah for Ki Tavo, one of the seven parashiyot the Zohar leaves in silence.
הַקָּטֹן יִהְיֶה לָאֶלֶף — the smallest shall become a thousand — is the rule the thirty steps are kept by: a few lines of the Chumash, a page opened, a shiur begun. The order is what is asked for, not the measure. And בְּעִתָּהּ אֲחִישֶׁנָּה — in its time, or hastened — is the seam this calendar stands on: a year already fixed, and a day still to be walked.
- Use ‹ › to move a day at a time, or jump to date ↗ to go straight to any date.
- Tap any card below — Keter, a Sefirah, Malchut — to expand it for the full texts and source links; tap ⓘ at a card's top-right corner to learn what its cycle means.
- Each card opens with its own structure — where today falls in its cycle — and beneath it the text that cycle is measuring, under its own heading. A heading marked ✦ carries a counted step, and its מעלה or מיעוט badge sits beside it; the rest are read without being counted. The linked title opens the source.
- Each Sefirah carries one of the day's ten prayers, in the left margin beside its hours. The one whose hour has come pulses until it is said; tap it to mark it, and tap again to undo. They may be marked in any order — unlike the ma'alot, each prayer has its own time.
- The heart in the Now card fills as those ten accumulate, and glows when the day's prayers are whole.
- Tap a step on Ma'alot HaZman — the spiral of the year above — for that week's theme, animal, and teaching.
- Tap the gold מעלה tags in order (א׳–ט״ו, Malchut up to Keter) to fill the moon in the clock above; at fifteen it becomes the sun, and its rays remain.
- Then return: the מיעוט tags (א׳–ט״ו) inside the expanded cards mark fifteen steps of listening from Keter down to Malchut — the moon wanes as you go, completing a month in a single day. Both halves are taken in order, each step the vessel for the next, and the return does not begin until the moon is full — all fifteen climbed. The thirty are one path, so at any moment there is exactly one step being asked for, and tapping any other will not take. A little is a step: a few lines of the Chumash, a page opened, a shiur begun. The order is what is asked for, not the measure.
- Tap the moon itself for Today's Path — all thirty steps in order, your next one highlighted; tap any row to jump straight to it.
- Two lights fill the cards: ✦ marks the counted path — the thirty steps of מעלה and מיעוט, light drawn inward (Or Pnimi); ✡ marks the surrounding light (Or Makif) — companion texts, resources, and the Rebbeim, which accompany the day but stand outside its thirty steps. Each companion gathered lights in the sun's gold and fills half a star in the ring around the moon — two to a star, so a full day’s twenty-two make the eleven of Yosef’s dream: the sun and the moon and eleven stars. The seven Chabad Rebbeim — one to each Sefirah from Chesed to Malchut — are the one closed set among them, and they wear a seven-branched menorah rather than a star: they are the ground the companions stand on. A gathered Rebbe lights blue and fills his own link in the chain of seven that hangs beside the moon, rather than a star in the ring.
- Tap any ✡ — six-pointed, a Magen David — to gather it as a star, and the count beside the moon rises. The stars have no total to reach: what is on offer changes with the day, so the count says how many you reached, never how many you missed.
- The Weekly Journal keeps the accounting. Each day it reports what was actually marked — the thirty steps, the ten prayers, the stars gathered — and The Year lays all 364 days out at once, a column to a week, so nothing is lost at midnight.
- Badges like "Week 40 · Day 4" show where you are in that section's own cycle; the linked title beside them opens the full source text.
- Gevurah's season reads Ratzo for its first forty-five days and Shov for its last — running in toward the season's Heart on day 46, then returning out. Nothing is divided between the halves; only the direction changes. Winter's Heart falls on Tu B'Shvat, the day the sap turns.
- Around Rosh Hashana two Kabbalah of Time years overlap; the year pills under the date switch between the one closing and the one begun. Netzach's cycle of 369 runs five days longer than the year, so on the first days of a cycle it offers its own toggle to reach days 365–369 of the one still finishing.
- Fixed Hours vs. Sha'ot Zmaniyot switches the day's sefirah-times between standard clock hours and halachic "proportional hours" for your chosen city.
- Under the title sit two small settings for reading. Contrast / Soft switches the page between the darker, more legible grade and the warmer one — Contrast is the default; both are readable, Soft is simply gentler on the eye. A / A+ / A++ sets the size of the text. Both are remembered.
