The run-of-service editor that finally fits how Saturday morning works.
Every prayer, every honor, every page reference. One workspace.
Most synagogues run Saturday morning out of a Word document, a spreadsheet, and someone's clipboard. Bimah replaces that with a single living service order — section-by-section structure, per-prayer page references across multiple siddurim, integrated honors, real durations, drag-to-reorder, and a service-key panel that surfaces clergy assignments, room logistics, lifecycle events, and announcements next to the order itself.
Sections that match your service
Sections aren't just labels — they're the structural anchor for everything else: section leaders, sub-section transitions, projector header slides, time blocks. Build once at the template level, edit live per service, drag rows between sections without losing context.
- Discrete liturgical sections (Pesukei D'Zimra, Shacharit, Torah Service, Musaf, Concluding) with optional sub-sections
- Per-section leaders pulled from the service role catalog — clergy, gabbaim, section leads
- Color-coded section dividers in the editor; visible in the printed PDF and the bimah projector
- Optional auto-announce projector slide at each section transition ("Welcome to Pesukei D'Zimra")
Page references across every siddur in your library
A row in your run-of-service can carry page references in Sim Shalom, Lev Shalem, the Mahzor, Etz Hayim, or any siddur you've configured. The editor highlights the canonical edition and lists alternates in a compact 'Also in: LS · EH' line so the gabbai can read off every option in seconds.
- Edition catalog: configure your shul's books once, used everywhere
- Per-prayer × per-section × per-context page references — the same prayer on a Shabbat morning page differs from the High Holiday page
- Triennial-cycle aware Torah readings (Year 1 / Year 2 / Year 3 + full kriah)
- Service type drives the page resolution so a Yom Kippur Mincha doesn't pull Shabbat morning page numbers
Honors, leaders, and roles in line
Honors aren't a separate document — they live on the rows that need them. An aliyah row carries the honoree, hebrew name, occasion, reader, page reference, and a printable honor card slot all together. Section leaders and clergy assignments thread through too, so the editor reads as a single source of truth.
- Multi-honor rows for paired ceremonies (Hagbah + Gelilah, Hotza'ah with Ark Openers A + B)
- Honor catalog with stable codes (TA, MR, HT, HL, GD, AO, TC, ER, …) drives slot generation, printable cards, and analytics later
- Real-time validation: which rows still need honorees, which roles are unfilled, what ratings are missing
Times, durations, and a real ETA
Every row carries an estimated duration. Roll them up and you get a projected end-of-service time the kitchen can plan kiddush around. Calibrate live during the service from any device and the ETA updates everywhere — bimah, kiosk, dashboard.
- Per-prayer duration library — set once, reused across services
- Cumulative time column with projected wall-clock for each row
- Live calibration from Bimah Mode, SAGE, or the facilities ETA kiosk
- Pre-service mode: countdown to start time, no premature "running long" panic
PDF that the gabbaim actually want printed
Cover page with everything you need at a glance — clergy, locations, times, honor summary, visual key. Run-of-service table with column controls (Hebrew on/off, page editions, font scale, zebra stripes, ritual-attribute icons). Honor roster page so the gabbai's clipboard turns into the gabbai's laptop.
- Per-tenant print preferences saved on the user profile (gotcha-style sticky settings)
- Cover stats: honors filled vs open, roles assigned, estimated duration
- Honor roster page grouped by aliyot / Torah honors / other honors with verse refs
- Symbol key + visual legend so a first-time reader can interpret every cell
Templates that bake in your minhag
Build a template once for each service type — Shabbat Morning, Friday Evening, RH Day 1, Yom Kippur Morning — and every new service from that template starts with your structure. Edit individual services without losing the template; sync changes back when you want to update the playbook.
- Section structure + default section labels, colors, leaders, durations, honor codes
- Per-row sync: pull from template (reset) or push to template (update playbook)
- Service type catalog: Conservative Shabbat Morning ships seeded; tenants extend
- Overlay system: Rosh Chodesh, Hallel, Shabbat Mevarchim, B'nei Mitzvah auto-apply
What's coming
- Multi-row clipboard for cross-service copy (move a sermon block from last week's order)
- Auto-detection of overlay opportunities the operator forgot (e.g. "This is Shabbat Mevarchim — apply Birkat HaChodesh?")
- AI-assisted draft from voice notes ("Bar Mitzvah, Parashat Shoftim, Bonnie reads Haftarah" → service order skeleton)
Other modules
Plan aliyot weeks ahead, share with families, never lose track again.
The bimah projector — siddur pages, transliteration, English, RTL Hebrew, all driven by your service order.
Congregant help-desk + public Project Board. Capture every question, ship a transparent backlog.
Shivas, B'nei Mitzvah, weddings, off-site services — coordinated end-to-end.
A first-class touch-screen memorial wall. Every plaque, every yahrzeit, every photo.
Pastoral care, development, family graph. The relationship layer your books don't have.
Bimah is live in beta. See it on a Saturday morning.
We're onboarding new launch-partner synagogues selectively while we mature the platform with our beta partner. Send a note and we'll set up a conversation.