Companion app · Lifestyle
Shiva: Organize the Week
Minyan, Meals & Visiting Hours
One calm place for the week, instead of a group chat and a spreadsheet.
A friend or family member sets it up in about five minutes and sends one link. Everyone who gets the link can see the same information and put their name down for something — no app account, no sign-up, no approvals to wait for.
What it holds
- Visiting hours, the address, and how to get in the door
- Minyan times through the week, with one-tap "I'll be there" and an honest count
- Meals, lunch and dinner, claimable one at a time, with what is already coming so nobody arrives with the sixth lasagna
- Dietary notes where the cook will actually see them
- Whatever else the family needs, as a running list anyone can add to and claim from
- Guidance cards for visitors: waiting for the mourner to speak first, the words of comfort in Hebrew with transliteration and English, what to bring and what not to bring, covered mirrors, low seating
When the week ends
- The logistics disappear on their own
- What is left is shloshim — the thirtieth day from the burial — and the first yahrzeit, worked out from the Hebrew date, which you can put in your calendar
- A page recording who came and who brought what, if the family wants it later
How it works underneath
There is no account and no server of ours. Everything lives in the organizer's own iCloud and is shared from there through Apple's own sharing. Anyone helping needs to be signed in to iCloud to put their name down; if that is a problem for someone, the organizer can add their commitment for them, and the app says so rather than letting the technology get in the way.
Customs vary
Nothing here is presented as a ruling — where practice genuinely differs by family and community, the guidance says so and points back to the family or their rabbi.
