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Your congregation, cared for between Shabbatot.

Reminders, yahrzeits, minyan and events run themselves, and nothing is ever sent on Shabbat or Yom Tov.

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3 messages held for Shabbat

They send on Saturday at 6:37 pm, after Havdalah. The yahrzeit reminder for Esther Feldman is first.

Built around the Jewish week, not the office week.

Every rule follows the calendar your members live by, so the office can set it once and let it run.

Quiet on Shabbat and Yom Tov

Messages wait through Shabbat and every Yom Tov, and texts and app notices wait out the late hours, then go out after Havdalah or in the morning.

Yahrzeits, never missed

Families are reminded ahead of each yahrzeit, worked out from the Hebrew date.

A minyan you can count on

Regulars RSVP from their phones. When you are short, the people on call are asked to come.

Visitors cleared before they arrive

Members ask to bring a guest, and each request goes to your security team to review before the guests arrive.

Also: events with paid tickets, the full Jewish calendar, automations you can shape yourself, and members who keep their own details up to date.

All the features

An assistant for the office, built by Or Zarua.

Ask Ezra in plain words. It brings your records over from your old system, writes the newsletter's drash from real sources, and does the day's small jobs. Nothing changes until you confirm.

  • Moves your member list over, Hebrew names, households and yahrzeits included.
  • Quotes Tanakh, Talmud and the siddur, and shows where every quote came from.
  • Finds this Shabbat's yahrzeits, fills in a new event and makes the Shabbat sheet.

For your staff only. Your data stays in Australia, and Ezra draws on your AI and Messaging Credits.

More about Ezra

Ezra

Working on it

  1. Here's our member list from the old system. Can you bring everyone in, with their yahrzeits?

    • members-export.csv
    1. Read sheet ‘members-export.csv’
    2. Plan change ‘Import members from a spreadsheet’

  3. I read all 412 rows and matched the columns:

    • “First Name” and “Last Name” to each member's name
    • “Hebrew Name” to the Hebrew name, such as Esther bat Avraham
    • “Family” to households: 171 of them
    • “Yahrzeit (Hebrew)” and “Observed By” to 96 yahrzeits, each by its Hebrew date

    Members first, so each yahrzeit finds who keeps it. Nothing has changed yet: here's the plan for your yes.

  4. Ready for your yes

    Import members from a spreadsheet: add the new people and update the ones already on file. Affects 412 rows.

    412 new.

    The records are backed up first, so most of this can be undone from Backups: ask Ezra to put it back.

    Nothing changes until you confirm.

    Review Confirm Confirming…

    Confirmed Done. The records are backed up first, so most of this can be undone from Backups: ask Ezra to put it back.

  5. The 412 members are in. Now their 96 yahrzeits, each by its Hebrew date and matched to who keeps it.

    1. Plan change ‘Add or change many yahrzeits from a spreadsheet’

  7. Ready for your yes

    Add or change many yahrzeits from a spreadsheet: matched by id, or by keeper and name. Affects 96 rows.

    96 new.

    The records are backed up first, so this can be undone from Backups: ask Ezra to put it back.

    Nothing changes until you confirm.

    Review Confirm Confirming…

    Confirmed Done. The records are backed up first, so this can be undone from Backups: ask Ezra to put it back.

  8. All in: 412 members in 171 households, and 96 yahrzeits. No one has been invited yet. Say the word and I'll plan the invitations.

  • members-export.csv
Ask, or tell it what to do… Here's our member list from the old system. Can you bring everyone in, with their yahrzeits?

Your members have the siddur with them.

Members see the congregation's calendar, their tickets and their own details in the Siddur Or Zarua app.

About the app

A$0.30

per member a month + GST

Priced to help, not to profit.

For your first 100 members. Or Zarua is heavily subsidised so small congregations can run as well as large ones.

80 members: A$24.00 a month + GST.

Prices are in Australian dollars. GST of 10% is added for congregations in Australia; congregations elsewhere pay no GST.

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