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What should happen when a source has no text in the selected language?
185 of 423 Ashkenaz leaves have no openly licensed English; Amidora then shows Hebrew only and says so, instead of borrowing a translation from another section.
How the app handles a missing translation
Amidora includes only editions released under CC-BY, CC0 or the public domain. Where none of those has English for a passage, the leaf simply has Hebrew segments. When you open a section in which no leaf has English, and the display is not set to Hebrew only, the app says: No openly licensed English translation exists for this section yet, so it is shown in Hebrew only.
A different message appears when the section itself is absent from the selected text: This section is not in the selected nusach. The first is about a language, the second about the outline of a nusach.
What to do next
- Check which message you see: missing English or missing section.
- For missing English, read the Hebrew, or open the edition on Sefaria from the Texts and sources screen.
- For a missing section, check whether another nusach is the one you meant to open.
- If you use a translation from elsewhere, keep its name and source beside it.
How common it is
In the bundled texts, 185 of 423 Ashkenaz leaves, 40 of 101 Sefard leaves and 49 of 82 Edot HaMizrach leaves have no English. Examples are the Ten Commandments in the Ashkenaz weekday morning service, Havdala in Sefard, and Hodu in the Edot HaMizrach weekday morning service.
- Ashkenaz
- 185 of 423 leaves
- Sefard
- 40 of 101 leaves
- Edot HaMizrach
- 49 of 82 leaves
Edot HaMizrach is the only one of the three texts in which more leaves lack English than have it, 49 against 33, and its English comes from a single edition, the Sefaria Community Translation.
Mistakes
- Reading a Hebrew-only leaf as an empty or broken prayer.
- Copying English from a neighbouring section to fill the gap.
- Switching nusach to get English without noticing that the text changed too.
- Treating the missing-section message as a missing translation.
Scope
Availability depends on which openly licensed editions exist on Sefaria, the source listed below. A gap says nothing about the prayer itself.