Hebrew Calendar

Hebrew Calendar displays the current Hebrew date as a persistent lockscreen notification and home screen widget, with Jewish calendar information and optional halachic prayer times. **Calendar** • Hebrew date in Hebrew script (כ״ב ניסן תשפ״ו) or English transliteration • Jewish holidays — Yom Tov, Chol HaMoed, Rosh Chodesh, fast days, and minor holidays • Fast days show start and end times • Shabbat label with weekly Torah portion (parsha) • Upcoming parsha displayed throughout the week, not only on Shabbat • Omer count during the 49 days between Pesach and Shavuot • Diaspora and Israel holiday modes **Calendar screen** • Full month grid — browse by Hebrew or Gregorian month • Both the Hebrew and Gregorian date shown in every day cell • Tap a day for its details: holidays, fast start/end times, and zmanim for that date • Links from the day sheet open the parsha, haftarah, and daily Tehillim directly in the reader **Shabbat & Yom Tov** • Candle-lighting time with a live countdown on Friday and Erev Yom Tov (18, 20, 30, or 40 minutes before sunset) • Havdalah time by your chosen opinion: 8.5°, 42 minutes, 50 minutes, or 72 minutes (Rabbeinu Tam) • Shabbat Shalom banner on the lockscreen during Shabbat and Yom Tov **Sun, moon & direction** • Sun arc for today showing where the sun is heading, the time left until sunset, and the current sha'ah zmanit (halachic hour) • The moon drawn in its current phase, with its illumination, and the Birkat HaLevana window with its text • Jerusalem compass, measured from true north: direction and distance to Jerusalem from your city **Zmanim (Prayer Times)** • Halachic times calculated by KosherJava — Alot HaShachar, HaNetz, Sof Zman Shema (GRA & MGA), Chatzot, Mincha, Shkiah, Tzet HaKochavim, and more • City selected from a built-in database covering hundreds of Jewish communities worldwide • Next upcoming zman highlighted in the collapsed notification • 12-hour or 24-hour time format **Torah & Tehillim Reader** • Daily Tehillim (day-of-month cycle) and weekly parsha buttons on the widget and notification • Translucent reader overlay with right-to-left flowing text and pinch-to-zoom • Nikkud and te'amim toggles; Hebrew or English text (Sefaria editions) • Tikkun mode: unvocalized STaM sofer script with authentic Torah-scroll line layout (tikkun.io) • Parsha shown by chapters or by aliyot, including double portions • Original scroll spacing (petucha/setuma) display option • Customary Elul Tehillim: three additional daily chapters through Yom Kippur • Switch between Tehillim and Torah without leaving the reader • Continuous scrolling — reach the end of a chapter and the next (or previous) loads automatically • Haftarah of the week alongside the parsha • Navigation dial to jump to any chapter or parsha • Offline downloads of upcoming readings on Wi‑Fi (mobile data optional) **Display** • Persistent lockscreen notification — always visible without unlocking • Home screen widget with adjustable background transparency • Gregorian date shown alongside the Hebrew date • Survives Do Not Disturb and Bedtime mode with optional DND bypass permission **Privacy** • No analytics or tracking • Location used only once to match the nearest city; stored locally and never transmitted • Calendar and zmanim work fully offline; the text reader fetches from the Sefaria API and caches locally for offline rereading

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