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Prepare your digital siddur before Shabbat

Check the service, community settings and practical arrangements in advance, with no reliance on a date-only converter for local times.

Preparation is easier when calendar, prayer text and local time are treated as separate checks. A Hebrew date tells you where you are in the calendar. It does not tell you the local candle-lighting time or establish the practice you should follow.

If you use a digital siddur during the week, review what you need in advance. Follow your own community's rules about devices and make the appropriate printed or other arrangements for Shabbat itself.

Check the right city and the right service

In Amidora, confirm the selected city, the city's time zone and the candle-lighting offset used by your community. Then check the nusach and open the relevant Shabbat text before you need it. Jerusalem and other communities can have customs that make an assumed default inappropriate.

Confirm the local timetable through your accepted source.
Check the week's Shabbat information and parsha.
Review the prayer text and its available language.
Arrange any printed reading material beforehand.

Know what the app does and what this page does

Amidora's native features include Shabbat information, a luach and optional local reminders. A reminder is a convenience, not the authority for a deadline; device settings and notification permissions can affect whether you see it. Keep an accepted timetable available when timing matters.

This site's Hebrew date converter supplies no candle-lighting or nightfall calculation. If you are traveling, check the destination rather than carrying over a home-city screenshot. If a date or custom is unclear, ask the question while there is time to resolve it, rather than inferring a ruling from an app's highlighted screen.

Questions, answered

Can the web converter replace a local Shabbat timetable?

No. It provides a calendar conversion only and does not calculate sunset, candle lighting or nightfall.

Does a notification establish the correct time?

No. Verify the location, settings and your community's accepted timetable independently of whether a reminder appears.

Sources & method

Reviewed: 2026-10-25

Keep going in Amidora

Read prayers in Ashkenaz, Sefard or Edot HaMizrach nusach. · See zmanim for the selected city in that city's time zone. · Use a monthly luach, Shabbat information and the Omer count.

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