Amidora · Library
How can you find the complete prayer section and its notes?
A leaf like the Sefard weekday Mincha Amidah holds 128 segments, 36 of them instructions; check its path, its last segment and any English block before saving it.
Where a section begins and ends
Amidora's texts are trees: five top sections branch into services and sub-sections, and only the last level, the leaves, holds text. Each leaf carries a reference that spells out its whole path, for example Siddur Ashkenaz, Weekday, Shacharit, Preparatory Prayers, Modeh Ani. Opening a sub-section shows all of its leaves in order.
A leaf can be long. Its end may also be an English block rather than the last Hebrew line, when the two editions were not segmented the same way.
Leaf size differs between the texts. All three have five top sections, but the Ashkenaz text divides 2560 segments into 423 leaves, about 6 per leaf, while Edot HaMizrach puts 2069 segments into 82 leaves and Sefard 2871 into 101, about 25 and 28 per leaf.
A completeness check
- Read the leaf's path from the top section down.
- Scroll to the final segment before copying, rather than stopping at a familiar ending.
- Look for a separate English block after the Hebrew.
- Keep instructions and conditional lines with the excerpt.
- Save the full reference with the copy.
Three long leaves
The Sefard weekday Mincha Amidah has 128 segments, 36 of them instructions. The Edot HaMizrach weekday Shacharit Amida has 107 segments with 17 instructions, and the Ashkenaz Birkat HaMazon 89 segments with 33 instructions. An excerpt taken from the first screen of any of these covers only a small part of the leaf.
- Amidah · Sefard, weekday Mincha
- 128 segments · 36 instructions
- Amida · Edot HaMizrach, weekday Shacharit
- 107 segments · 17 instructions
- Ashkenaz Birkat HaMazon
- 89 segments · 33 instructions
Mistakes
- Saving a leaf from its opening lines only.
- Missing the English block at the end of an unaligned leaf.
- Supplying a missing ending from memory.
- Treating one leaf as the whole service.
Scope
Section structure follows the Sefaria editions listed below. For a complete service or a practical question, use the appropriate prayer book and community guidance.