Recurring services
Inherit your locale and cycle to auto-schedule the weekly Torah reading.
Features
Hebrew Calendar Setup: Locale and Reading Cycle in iLeyn
Hebrew Calendar Setup: Locale and Reading Cycle in iLeyn
Your calendar settings tell iLeyn which Hebrew-calendar convention your congregation follows and which Torah reading cycle it uses. Those two choices — a diaspora or Israel locale, and an annual or triennial cycle — drive which parsha, holiday, and reading iLeyn generates for any given date, so getting them right up front keeps every scheduled service aligned with what your community reads.
Why the calendar drives everything
Almost everything iLeyn generates is anchored to the Hebrew calendar: the weekly parsha on a Shabbat-morning service, the readings a recurring schedule fills in, and the holiday and special-Shabbat overlays on your calendar. Because those are derived from a date, the settings you choose decide whether a given week lands on the reading your congregation actually chants. Setting them once, correctly, means you are reviewing generated readings rather than correcting them.
Choose your calendar locale
The calendar locale sets whether iLeyn follows the diaspora or the Israel calendar convention. This matters because the two diverge: festival day counts and, in some years, the weekly parsha fall differently in Israel than in the diaspora. Pick the convention your community keeps so holidays and weekly readings line up with your practice instead of drifting a week out of step.
Choose your reading cycle
The reading cycle controls how much Torah is read each Shabbat. An annual cycle reads the full parsha every week and finishes the Torah in a year. A triennial cycle reads roughly a third of each parsha per week across a three-year rotation, so lining up the correct year is what keeps a triennial congregation on the right verses. iLeyn also supports options for weekday readings and the annual maftir, so the cycle you set shapes exactly which passages a generated service carries.
How the settings flow into services
These are organization-wide chanted-text defaults, so a recurring Torah schedule and any calendar-generated reading inherit them without per-service fiddling. You can still adjust an individual service or, for a congregation with its own custom, set reading overrides for a specific parsha. But the locale and cycle are the baseline every new reading starts from, which is why they belong at the top of your setup.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between the diaspora and Israel calendar?
They follow different conventions for festival day counts and, in some years, the weekly parsha. Choosing the one your community keeps ensures holidays and weekly readings line up with your practice.
What does the reading cycle setting change?
It sets how much Torah is read each Shabbat. An annual cycle reads the full parsha weekly; a triennial cycle reads about a third across a three-year rotation, so the correct year determines which verses a triennial congregation reads.
Do these settings affect services I already scheduled?
They are the defaults iLeyn uses when it generates readings, such as for new and recurring services. Services whose passages you have already set are not rewritten.
What if our congregation reads a parsha differently?
You can set a reading override for a specific parsha so iLeyn uses your community's exact passages, while the locale and cycle remain the baseline for everything else.
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Scheduling
Turns the calendar-driven readings into dated services on your calendar.
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