A new unique digital educational tool has become available for Jewish children aged six to fourteen: the MyChitas.app . Created to combine the acquisition of Jewish knowledge with gaming and encouragement, it aims to make Jewish children themselves eager to learn Chitas daily.
The MyChitas.app was created by Rabbi Reuven Grinberg, who has worked for many years in the Dnipro Jewish Community, both in children’s education and as a sofer at the National Sofer Center. Drawing on the directives of the Lubavitcher Rebbe regarding the importance of daily Chitas study for bringing closer the Geulah—especially when children learn Chitas with sincere joy, which multiplies the spiritual light—Rabbi Reuven Grinberg decided to develop and present a project that seeks to speak to children in a language they understand. Incorporating elements of play and encouragement, it motivates them to continue and intensify their daily efforts.
Each day, the child is offered to complete six essential sections: Chumash, Tehillim, Tanya, Hayom Yom, Rambam, as well as a block dedicated to the topics of Geulah and Moshiach. The materials are available in two formats—for reading and for listening—allowing for different preferences as well as the age and cognitive characteristics of the children. After reading or listening to each section, the child has the opportunity to reinforce the learned material through interactive games within the app. These include multiple-choice quizzes, true/false tasks, memory pair games, anagrams, and a bonus “wheel of fortune” game.
A crucial component of the app is its motivation and visual progress system. For each completed task, the child earns points, which translate into levels and titles, while an uninterrupted series of learning days helps form a stable daily ritual. The child sees their development not abstractly, but concretely: how many points remain until the next level, which achievements are already unlocked, and what results today has brought.
The creator of MyChitas.app started from the principle formulated in the book of Mishlei (22:6), where King Shlomo says: “Educate a youth according to his way.” Since today a child’s path involves interactivity, visuals, and game elements, the task of Jewish education is to organically combine these forms with the eternal wisdom of the Torah, preserving its content and intrinsic value.
The daily learning process is built as a clear ritual. The child opens the app, sees the current date and the Jewish calendar, selects a section or goes through them sequentially, familiarizes themselves with the text, plays an educational game, and receives feedback in the form of points, achievements, and an extended streak of days. At the end of the day, the completion of all six sections, participation in six games, and the accumulation of up to two hundred and sixty points are recorded.
“Practice shows that this format creates stable internal motivation, and children return to the app because they see their progress, encounter a variety of tasks, strive to maintain their daily streak, and compete primarily with themselves,” says Rabbi Reuven Grinberg. “The result is a situation where children themselves remind their parents of the need for daily Chitas study. The ultimate goal of the project is to help raise a generation of children for whom the Torah becomes a source of joy, internal strength, and a conscious connection with Jewish tradition, bringing closer the Geulah.”
Currently, MyChitas.app is in the prototype stage, but the project team is already forming a vision for further development. Plans include expanding the audience to tens of thousands of children, supporting additional languages, partnering with Jewish educational institutions, creating a family mode for joint learning, and involving professional pedagogical and rabbinical guidance.
To join the project and explore the app, visit the website https://mychitas.app.
