Shadow Shul is a family of focused products — each one solving a specific piece of volunteer-led synagogue work. Built to work together, but useful standalone.
The service-planning and order-of-service tool for gabbaim, clergy, and service committees. Liturgy-aware, honors-aware, lifecycle-aware — and beautifully bilingual.
Service templates that know about Shacharit, Mincha, Ma’ariv, Shabbat, Yom Tov, and special occasions — built from Siddur Lev Shalem (Conservative egalitarian) as a starting point, editable for your minhag.
Drag-and-drop line items. Time estimates from a real duration library. Honors and aliyot assigned in-line. The gabbai sheet, upgraded — and printable as a polished PDF.
B’nei Mitzvah, aufruf, baby naming, yahrzeit — lifecycle events overlay the service without destroying the template. Change the date; the plan adapts.
Self-hosted Frank Ruhl Libre. Proper bidi isolation. Right-to-left when it should be. Hebrew names in the Conservative egalitarian pattern (ben/bat, both parents).
Every shul’s data is isolated at the database level — app-layer scoping today, Postgres RLS in Phase 2. Your minhag, your honors catalog, your duration overrides.
The bimah still runs on paper on Shabbat. MyBimah generates a polished, embedded-Hebrew PDF you can hand to the rabbi and the cantor on Friday afternoon.
I shouldn’t be rebuilding the same Shabbat morning sheet every Thursday night.
I want an order of service that matches the siddur, not a Word doc with tabs and prayers for alignment.
When we add a B’nei Mitzvah, the whole plan needs to flex — without starting over.
Show us what the day looks like, who’s doing what, and when our kid is up.
MyBimah is the first. These are in design — the early-access cohort shapes what we build next.
Dignified, discreet coordination for shmira, tahara, and cemetery logistics. Rotation-aware. Built for 2am phone calls.
Shiva meals, new-parent meals, post-surgery support. Structured sign-ups with dietary notes and family privacy.
Generic group spaces for every committee that doesn’t have a purpose-built tool yet. Tasks, announcements, calendars.
Who’s in the period of mourning. Who wants a reminder. Who’s showing up to make minyan. Gabbai-friendly.
The first cohort of shuls and volunteer groups gets direct input into the roadmap.
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