About.

What Zion Torah is

Zion Torah is a publisher of Torah and Kabbalah, in French and English. It publishes a free iPhone app, Zion Torah, books, and this site. Everything stems from one conviction: the texts of the Jewish tradition, read in their own language and carefully translated, can be made accessible to everyone without being watered down.

Editorial line

We publish source texts and their translations, with explanations grounded in the classical commentators. We issue no halachic rulings: times, customs and lists belong to the tradition of each community, and when in doubt, ask your rabbi. When a list reflects a custom rather than a text, we say so.

The app

Daily and Shabbat times for any location, Jewish calendar, complete Hebrew siddur with translation and transliteration, Chumash with Rashi and Onkelos, Tehilim, Zohar in Aramaic, Kabbalah study, gematria, family purity, widgets, compass and offline mode. Free on iPhone; Zion Torah+ adds the siddur translation, Rashi, Onkelos, the Zohar and all of Kabbalah.

The books

Zion Torah publishes colouring books for children around the holidays and the Hebrew alphabet, available on Amazon, starting with Chanukah.

This site

The Shabbat times pages are computed by the app's engine for 23 cities through 2027. The parasha pages give the full text of each parasha with Rashi. The Tehilim pages give the 150 Psalms with translation. The Kabbalah library reproduces the 76 articles of the Study tab.

Sources and licences

Torah and Tehilim in Hebrew

Masoretic text of the Leningrad Codex (tanach.us), via Sefaria. Public domain.

French translation

Bible du Rabbinat, 1899, via Wikisource and Sefaria. Public domain.

English translation

The Holy Scriptures, JPS 1917, via Sefaria. Public domain.

Rashi

Hebrew text from Wikisource; Zion Torah translations, CC BY-SA 4.0, under rabbinic review.

Onkelos

Targum Onkelos via Sefaria. Public domain.

Zohar and Tikkunei Zohar

Aramaic text from Hebrew Wikisource, CC BY-SA 4.0. Zion Torah excerpts and translations under the same licence.

Sefer Yetzirah, Etz Chaim, Pardes Rimonim, Talmud, Midrash

Via Sefaria; each article cites its exact reference.

Calendar and times

Hebrew calendar after Reingold and Dershowitz; parasha table computed with hebcal; solar times computed by Zion Torah. Candle lighting per each city's custom, havdalah at 8.5° below the horizon.

Transliteration

Zion Torah transliteration, Sephardi or Ashkenazi pronunciation, French based.

Contact

contact@ziontorah.com. For an error in a text, a reference or a time, write to us: every report is checked against the source.