Hebrew features

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Unisoft is designed for Jewish communities and offers three tools specific to the Hebrew calendar and religious practices:

• the Hazkara reminders to not forget the anniversary date of a relative's death,
• the Hebrew birthdays automatically calculated from a civil date,
• the Chlihout (or Shlihout — ritual service) to track a contact's observance on four key dimensions.

These features are accessible from the contact profile (/app/contact/fiche?id=...).

Hazkara — reminders for a deceased person's date

The Hazkara (in Hebrew: הזכרה, "memory") refers to the annual commemoration of the date of a relative's death, particularly important in the Jewish tradition. On the anniversary day (according to the Hebrew calendar), the close family lights a candle, says the Kaddish, and may attend the synagogue.

Unisoft lets a community leader automatically notify the relatives of a deceased person as the anniversary date of their death approaches, so they don't forget it.

How it works in practice

The mechanism is the opposite of what one might imagine: you don't send a reminder to the deceased person (obviously), but you notify the living relatives — typically the children, the spouse, the brothers and sisters.

For a Hazkara reminder to be set, the deceased's profile must be marked as such: the Deceased field in the main information must be checked. Once the contact is marked deceased, a new tab appears on their profile: Contact Reminder(s).

Set a Hazkara reminder

1. 1

   Open the deceased's profile

   For example, open the profile of Eli Cohen, marked as deceased.

2. 2

   Click on the Contact Reminder(s) tab

   The tab only appears for deceased contacts.

3. 3

   Click on Add a contact reminder

   The Add a hazkara reminder modal opens.

4. 4

   Choose the contact to notify

   In the dropdown list, select the person to remind — typically a child or the still-living spouse. Unisoft filters the list to exclude already deceased contacts and those who have no registered parents (the "household referent" logic).

5. 5

   Add free text (optional)

   You can specify a message that will appear in the reminder: "Think about lighting the candle" for example.

6. 6

   Validate

   The reminder is saved. On the deceased's profile, it appears in the Contact Reminder(s) tab with the name of the person to notify and the nature of the family link (Son, Daughter, Spouse, etc.).

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Multiple reminders for the same deceased

You can add as many reminders as there are relatives to notify. For Eli Cohen, you can plan a reminder for each of his three children, his brother and his sister.

Edit or delete a Hazkara reminder

Each reminder displays a ⋮ button (three dots) that opens an Edit or Delete menu. Deletion is confirmed by a dialog box ("Are you sure you want to delete this death reminder?") and is definitive.

Hebrew birthday

The second tool concerns birthdays of birth in the Hebrew calendar. Where the civil birthday falls on March 14 every year (for example), the Hebrew birthday is set on the lunar calendar: it shifts by about 11 days per year in the Gregorian calendar.

Unisoft relies on the reference library @hebcal/core to automatically convert a civil date to a Hebrew date. You enter the civil date of birth in the main information of the contact; Unisoft calculates the equivalent Hebrew date and stores it alongside.

Set a birthday reminder

1. 1

   Open the contact profile

   The contact must have a date of birth entered in their main information.

2. 2

   Click on the Birthday option

   Depending on your profile, the action is accessible from the actions menu or from the Reminders tab. It opens the Add a birthday reminder modal.

3. 3

   Choose the silent mode

   The Manager Only toggle determines whether the reminder is intended for the entire community or only for the administrative team.

4. 4

   Add free text (optional)

   Optional — the text area lets you add a message or instruction for the reminder.

5. 5

   Validate

   The reminder is saved. On the Hebrew birthday day, Unisoft notifies the responsible team (or the configured distribution list).

Display of the Hebrew date on the profile

On the profile of a contact having a date of birth entered, you will systematically find the equivalent Hebrew date displayed (for example: "born on March 14, 1972 — 28 Adar Bet 5732"). This is the basis used for the calculation of the birthday reminder and the religious age (bar/bat mitzvah).

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Enter the date of birth from creation

The earlier you enter the date of birth, the more Unisoft can help you: birthday reminders, tracking of religious ages for children, calculations of the community's average age.

Chlihout (Shlihout) — track observance

The Chlihout (from the Hebrew שליחות, "mission" in the sense of religious commitment) is the tool for tracking a contact's religious observance on four key dimensions. It serves the leaders who accompany the congregants in their journey.

The dedicated tab is called Shlihout in the profile (the "S" is the alternative spelling). It contains four cards, one per dimension.

The four dimensions tracked

Code	Displayed label	Covers what?
CHABBAT	Shabbat	Respect of shabbat, lighting candles, meals
CACHEROUT	Kashrut	Kosher diet daily and during outside meals
TAHARAT	Taharat Hamishpaha	Laws of family purity
ECOLE	Jewish school	Schooling of children in a Jewish school

The evaluation scale

For each dimension, the leader chooses a level from six:

Value	Label	Indicative color
0	Unknown	Gray
1	Not at 100%	Red
3	Starting a little	Orange
5	Encouraging	Amber
7	Can still improve	Cyan
10	Yes at 100%	Green

The scale is designed to reflect progression: no one judges, one accompanies. The 0 (Unknown) is used when the leader does not have the information.

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Non-linear scale — it's intentional

The values 0, 1, 3, 5, 7, 10 are not evenly distributed. This is intentional: Unisoft wants to strongly distinguish "does not respect" (1) from "starting" (3), and mark a clear progression between "encouraging" (5) and "can still improve" (7).

Improvement tags

For intermediate values (between 1 and 10 exclusive), an additional field Things to improve appears. You freely list the points to work on with this contact: "Lighting candles", "Friday evening meal", "Outing to non-kosher restaurant"… These tags are memorized by dimension and offered in autocomplete next time.

Enter a contact's Chlihout

1. 1

   Open the profile

   On the contact profile, click on the Shlihout tab.

2. 2

   For each dimension, choose a level

   In the dropdown to the right of the dimension, select the value that best matches your observation.

3. 3

   Optional — enter improvement tags

   If the value is between 1 and 10 (exclusive), enter the progression axes in the multi-tag field.

4. 4

   Let Unisoft save

   Saving is automatic with each change (no "Validate" button to click).

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Use Chlihout as a team with discernment

Chlihout is sensitive data. Agree as a team on a clear policy: who enters it, who consults it, how it is used. It should only serve to better accompany the congregants, never to judge or exclude.

Best practices

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Mark the profile 'deceased' as soon as possible

To be able to set Hazkara reminders, the profile must be marked as deceased. Do it as soon as you learn of the death. Ideally, also enter the date of death and the corresponding Hebrew date.

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Parent/child link for reminders to work

The suggestions of people to notify for a Hazkara are based on the family links entered. If the deceased's profile has no registered child or spouse, the list will be empty and you will need to manually link the contacts beforehand.

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The Hebrew calendar is calculated, not entered by hand

Don't try to manually enter "5 Tishrei 5786" in Unisoft. Enter the civil date and let the conversion happen automatically via the @hebcal/core library, the open source Hebrew calendar reference.

Articulation with other tools

• The religious age reminders (bar mitzvah at 13 years old for a boy, bat mitzvah at 12 years old for a girl) are calculated from the children's date of birth and their family links.
• The Calendar module (/app/agenda) displays the day's hazkara and Hebrew birthdays among the upcoming events.
• To store additional information related to religious practice (school attended, designated rabbi), use the custom fields.