Twice the Mikra. Once the Targum. Every week.

A Chumash page, not a scrolling feed

The text fills the screen the way an open Chumash fills your view: whole verses, paragraph after paragraph, every petucha and setuma starting on its own line. When you finish a page, the next one appears. Nothing slides or fades.

• No near-empty screens. A short paragraph moves to the next page only if this one is at least 60% full.
• Pages never cross into the next parasha.
• The Hebrew never gets narrower than 560 px. When Rashi needs room, it goes underneath.

One key keeps the count

Space moves you through each page in the order of the practice: Mikra, Mikra, Targum, then the next page. Shift+Space goes back. The running head shows which reading you're on, so you never wonder whether you've read it once or twice.

Close the desk in the middle of the week and it opens again at the same verse and the same beat, with Rashi and te'amim as you left them.

Onkelos you can read aloud

The Targum is fully vocalized, following the Yemenite Taj tradition, so you can say it as fluently as the Hebrew. It sits under the Hebrew on an ordinary screen and beside it on a wide one, verse for verse.

• Each Targum line starts at most one verse, so you never lose your place.
• Shown one size smaller than the Mikra, as in a printed Chumash.

Rashi when you want him

Press R and Rashi's comments on the verses on the page appear beneath the Targum. Rashi scrolls on his own, so the Chumash stays put while you read the commentary. Press R again and the page is quiet.

The Shulchan Aruch (Orach Chaim 285:2) counts Rashi's commentary in place of the Targum, and says the God-fearing read both. The desk lets you do either.

See the music of the verse

Press M to show the te'amim. Press T and each word is tinted by its ta'am, so every musical phrase reads as one coloured run, from the munach that leads in to the etnachta that ends it. Hover a word for its name in Hebrew, with the Sephardi and Ashkenazi names beside it.

• Families colour each ta'am by its family. Hierarchy shades only the pauses, darkest for the strongest.
• Focus picks one ta'am, such as tevir, counts it in the parasha, and N jumps to its next appearance.
• The colours come from a full analysis of the Masoretic text, done ahead of time for every verse. Nothing is guessed while you read.

Learn your Torah reading, one word at a time

Press L and the desk becomes a practice room for a bar mitzvah reading. Onkelos and Rashi step aside. The Mikra stays, with every ta'am. One word is lit at a time, in the colour of its own ta'am. Chant it, press Space, and the next word lights up. When the reading reaches the bottom of the page, the page turns by itself.

• Choose the range: the maftir, any of the seven aliyot, or the whole parasha. The maftir of every parasha is built in.
• Words joined by a maqaf are one step, the way they're chanted.
• The running head names the current ta'am in Hebrew, by Sephardi or Ashkenazi custom.
• A quiet percentage in the corner shows how far into the range you've reached. Going back to drill a pasuk never lowers it.

Press L again and the desk is exactly where you left it, so practising the bar mitzvah reading never loses your place in the week's parasha.

Pick up where your week left off

Some people read a little every day. Press A for the parasha's seven aliyot and go straight to Shelishi. Click any verse number in the margin to jump to that pasuk. Shift+Space right after a jump takes you back to where you were.

When the parasha is done, keep pressing Space. The desk goes on into the next parasha and the next book, all the way to the end of Devarim.

What's written, beside what's read

In a few places the Torah is written one way and read another. The page shows the qere, the word you say. Press K and a small circle marks each one, with the written ketiv in the margin, as in a printed Chumash.

• The note sits beside the text. The verse, its letters and its line breaks don't move.
• Each place comes from the Masoretic text itself, all 36 in this edition, and works in learning mode too.

Every letter as the Masorah has it

The Mikra follows Miqra according to the Masorah, a careful edition of the Aleppo Codex tradition. The desk shows it letter for letter: no normalizing, no "fixed" spellings, ketiv and qere kept. It's all on your computer, so it works on a plane, in a sukkah, or anywhere without Wi-Fi.

• Never connects to the internet. Your reading stays private.
• Every edition is openly licensed and credited, from the Mikra to the fonts.