About
Siddur Learning helps people who are new to davening, and children, learn the prayers with large Hebrew, transliteration, translation and recorded audio.
Credits and licenses
Text used in mincha.json and maariv.json
- Hebrew: "The Metsudah siddur, 1981" (Avrohom Davis), from Sefaria's Siddur Ashkenaz. License: CC-BY. Source: https://www.sefaria.org/Siddur_Ashkenaz (bibliographic record: https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH002211687)
- English: "Translation based on the Metsudah linear siddur, by Avrohom Davis, 1981", from Sefaria. License: CC-BY. Footnotes were removed.
- Maariv (weekday, Siddur Ashkenaz) comes from the same Metsudah edition on Sefaria; fetched with `fetch_maariv.py`, built with `python3 build.py maariv`.
- Each paragraph in `mincha.json`/`maariv.json` also carries its own source URL and license (`source`).
Suggested About-page line: Hebrew text and English translation: The Metsudah Siddur (Avrohom Davis, 1981), via Sefaria.org, licensed CC-BY.
Generated by this project (not from a third-party source)
- Transliterations: generated by rule (Ashkenazi pronunciation: shva na/nach heuristics, capitalized Divine and proper names; optional dagesh-chazak doubling in build.py)
- Word glosses: generated from a hand-written lexicon (`build.py` + `lexicon_extra.py`); words without a confident gloss are left null
Sources reviewed but not used
- Open Siddur Project, "Weekday Amidah and Ḳaddish with Ta'amei haMiqra" (Isaac Gantwerk Mayer). License: CC-BY-SA 4.0 (share-alike). Not used because it adds cantillation marks and non-standard insertions such as the Imahot, it lacks a linear English translation, and its license is share-alike.
- Birnbaum, Ha-Siddur Ha-Shalem (1949). Public domain, but available only as page scans, with no clean digital text.