To begin the three new cycles of Rambam study, thousands converged on the popular Rambam App released two years ago, expecting to start afresh with the wide variety of Shiurim available on the app, including the highly acclaimed class by Rabbi Yehoshua B. Gordon a”h, and to use the unique “audio sync” feature which brings the audio to the Halachah you click on. However, a programming blip emerged that required urgent updating.
An endless stream of queries came in from confused users around the world and the Chabad.org App Team rapidly identified and remedied the situation. Yet, before the update would be available on the Apple App Store and Google Play store it needed to be approved, which can take six, ten, 24, or even 48 hours. This would have forced many to miss the first and possibly even the second day of the new Rambam cycle.
In an unprecedented turn of events, the update for the app was approved by both Apple and Google teams in under 17 minutes, fixing all of the issues and allowing for a record number of new students to join the new learning cycle and begin learning Rambam from the beginning. The upgrade will require you to update the Rambam app on your device from the Apple App Store and Google Play store.
One Chabad.org programmer remarked, “I can’t remember seeing such a fast review process – from submission to publicly available in under one hour.”
Since its launch two years ago, the app has been downloaded tens of thousands of times, and has consistently maintained the top spot in both the Google and Apple app stores when searching the word “Rambam”.
The app concept was initiated by Rabbi Shloimy Greenwald, who provided seed funding. Development and fundraising were spearheaded by Rabbi Chaim Zaklos, Shliach to Chabad of Solano County, and the tech team was led by Yosef Mintz of OSFY. The Chabad.org team has maintained and further developed the app since its launch.
As the Rambam app was being fixed the Chabad.org Daily Study app remained fully operational as were the daily study resources of Chitas and Rambam that are always accessible online at Chabad.org/DailyStudy.
A message from Chabad.org read: “We look forward to serving you and Klal Yisrael worldwide with ever more convenient tools and paths to master the daily study of Rambam, amid many other informative and inspiring Torah learning opportunities.”
If you have not yet installed the Rambam App update, you can do it on the Apple App Store and Google Play store.
The work of syncing the text of the entire Rambam to multiple Maggidei Shiur has been a very costly endeavor, and app users are encouraged to contribute clicking on the link below!
JewishSolano.com/donate
Cash app: +1 707 592 5300
Zelle and PayPal: Chaimzak@gmail.com
Venmo: @Chaim-Zaklos-2
…Took only 17 minutes?! K’neged the under 18 min limit Yidden worldwide just maintained to produce kosher matzoh?! Sounds reasonable to conclude: We can imagine that the worldwide web responded to our diligence in keeping that one mitzvah with assisting us in learning about ALL the mitzvahs from the Rambam.