Shalom.App

Shalom.App is a weekly Torah portion app from The Ancient Way, which describes the app as its "app expression." It presents the current parsha in a simple, readable format. It is available free for iPhone and Android, and the portions can also be browsed and embedded on the web.

The app follows the traditional annual cycle of fifty-four portions, which restarts each autumn at Simchat Torah. Each weekly entry lists the Torah reading, its paired haftarah from the Prophets, and a B'rit Hadashah passage. Users can browse the full cycle by book and find special readings for the feasts and holy days of the Jewish year. A daily aliyah study divides each week's portion across the days, so the reading becomes a daily rhythm.

The makers say they did not invent a reading plan but joined the existing Jewish one. They hold that the Torah means teaching rather than law. They see the weekly reading as a rhythm that has kept Jewish identity intact through exile and dispersion. Pointing to Deuteronomy 31, the app invites both those recovering Jewish identity and people from the nations to read along. Its Messianic reading references pair Gospel and Brit Hadashah passages with each portion.

The name The Ancient Way comes from Jeremiah's call to ask for the ancient paths and walk in them.