Color Guided Chumash
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How it works

A guided tour of the controls.

This is a working model of the toolbar. Step through it, or click any control to see what it does — the pasuk below reacts exactly the way it does in the sefer.

Color Guided Chumash
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English

Shemos 1:1

וְאֵ֗לֶּהAnd these are שםשְׁמוֹת֙the names of בןבְּנֵ֣יthe sons of יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael בואהַבָּאִ֖יםwho are coming מִצְרָ֑יְמָהto Egypt אֵ֣ת- יַעֲקֹ֔בYaakov אישאִ֥ישׁeach man ביתוּבֵית֖וֹand his house בואבָּאוּ :they came

Nothing here is a picture — every control above is live.

  1. Switch from one Sefer to the next

    Click the tan Sefer button. The actual menu lists Bereishis, Shemos, Vayikra, Bamidbar and Devarim; the Sefer you are using is marked as current.

  2. Jump by Parsha, Perek or Pasuk

    The green, purple and blue controls move you to a Parsha, Perek or exact Pasuk. Pick the broader place first, then narrow it down.

  3. Switch from one edition to the next

    Click the white Edition button. The real menu gives you Simple Edition (core color coding), Standard Edition (roots and translation), and Advanced Edition (the full grammar palette).

  4. Turn the Shoresh and translation on or off

    The purple Interlinear menu has two real choices: Show Roots Above and Show Translations Below. Each is independent, and unavailable layers are disabled.

  5. Turn on Click - Highlight mode

    The yellow button changes from Highlighted to Click - Highlight. Then each word stays plain until you click it, keeping attention on just the part you want.

  6. Open the real Colors drawer

    The gear-and-palette button opens the drawer. Its real tabs are Colors, Presets and Settings. On Colors, start with Text, Prefix, Verb Root and Noun, then choose their colors and boldness.

  7. New: outline, shadow and glow

    Effects work on each part separately — outline a suffix, glow a Shoresh, or hollow out the letters so students can color them in.

  8. Adjust the way the text looks

    The Settings tab is where you can set the font family, font size, taamim, noun and proper-name highlighting, plus the two Interlinear layers.

What's new

The latest updates.

The seforim keep growing and the tools keep improving. Here is what changed most recently.

New

Text effects — outline, shadow, glow and more

Color is no longer the only way to mark a part of a word. Every part can now carry its own effect, which opens up a whole new set of worksheets and board work.

Hollow letters to color in

White letters with a black outline — print it and let students fill in the colors themselves.

וּבֵית֖וֹ

One color, different outlines

Keep every suffix the same color and let the outline tell them apart — a gentler step up from Simple to Advanced.

שְׁמוֹת֙ בְּנֵ֣י בָּאוּ

Shadow or glow

Lift a part off the page, or halo it without boxing it in.

הַבָּאִ֖ים

Bring the focus where you want it

Fade everything else back so the one thing you are teaching is the only thing on the page.

וְאֵ֗לֶּה שְׁמוֹת֙ בְּנֵ֣י

Alongside the outline you will also find highlight, italic, shadow, glow, transparency, gradient fill and per-part sizing. Effects are built for handouts: they come through when you export to PDF, Word or PowerPoint.

Now available

Bereishis, Noach, Lech Lecha and Shemos

These parshiyos are released and ready to learn from, in every edition.

  • Bereishis
  • Noach
  • Lech Lecha
  • Shemos

Our goal, בעזרת השם , is to have the entire Chumash complete by the end of next summer, תשפ"ז.

Please note: the translation for Shemos is not available yet. The Shoresh and the full color coding are there — only the translation layer is still being prepared.

About the translation

Why the translation reads the way it does.

It is deliberately literal

The translation is meant to be a very literal translation. Its purpose is to help you understand the dikduk of the word and see how it breaks apart — not to read smoothly.

Words in parentheses

Occasionally a word is added in parentheses to help the sentence flow. That is only a courtesy — it is not what the translation is there for.

What we hope to add

We hope to offer a non-literal translation option in the future, and to make the translations editable so you can adjust them to the way your class learns.

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