Seder Olam — Jewish Timeline

A timeline of Jewish history from Creation to the year 6000: 1,051 events and 2,667 articles on people, places, books and ideas, every date shown together with its source. The whole reference is in English, Hebrew and Russian. THE TIMELINE Drag with a finger and the centuries move under your hand. Life spans show who lived alongside whom, and the shape of each bar says what is actually known: recorded years of birth and death, years of reign, or only the years the sources speak of. On the phone a brass rail runs down the right edge: the roller zooms the timeline in and out, the two-finger pinch is precise, and the time-slice button sits at the bottom under your thumb. TIME SLICE Put the cursor on any year and see who was alive: the sages and figures of Jewish history, and separately those who lived elsewhere in the world at the same moment. The cursor shows the Hebrew and the common year at the top and has a grip at the bottom to drag; while you drag, the slice card turns to glass so the timeline shows through. THIS WEEK Once a day, a single page: what is coming in the week ahead — festivals and yahrzeits — and, kept separate, what happened on these same days in earlier years. Below them, one fact with an Explore button. THE WORLD ALONGSIDE 356 rulers, thinkers and witnesses of other nations and 458 events of world history — from the Mari archive and Hatshepsut to the Lisbon earthquake, Edison's lamp and Chernobyl — so that you can see what was happening around. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY The Yishuv and the State of Israel, the aliyot and the wars, the Shoah and Soviet Jewry, the disputes over Reform, Orthodoxy and Zionism — with names, dates and sources, from Petach Tikva and Degania to the Knesset, the maabarot and the Second Lebanon War. THE CHAIN OF TRANSMISSION The forty links of Maimonides — from Moses to Rav Ashi — the sealing of the Talmud, and the later succession of halakhic authority. Every link is named and grounded. TWO CHRONOLOGIES, HONESTLY Dates follow the count of Seder Olam Rabbah; where academic dating differs, the app says so plainly and gives both figures. TWELVE ROUTES Ready-made paths through the timeline: where to begin, the five exiles, from Sinai to the Talmud, how the Tanakh took shape, the two Temples, the Ninth of Av, the return to Zion, Abraham's journey, Chasidim and Misnagdim, the twelve tribes, the chasidic lines, who ruled the Land of Israel. ALSO INSIDE The Ruler: lay it on the timeline and read who ruled the land and where the people lived in any century. A world map, the Jewish year with its festivals and fasts, the weekly portion, 71 chasidic courts and their rebbes, a self-test by era, 327 “Did you know?” cards, an index and gematria. Eleven themes, dark and light. IN DEVELOPMENT The schools of Torah learning, the family tree and the glossary are already open in the menu and still being completed. Works offline: the whole reference lives inside the app. No account, no ads, no purchases.