Audit / Live Shabbat times
Shabbat times that update themselves
The most-visited thing on a shul website is this week's times, and the most common failure is a PDF from months ago. The fix is free: let Hebcal calculate candle lighting and Havdalah for your city every week, and keep only your own minyan times by hand.
Four ways to do it
Free, no keyNo API key is needed.
Credit HebcalContent is licensed CC BY 4.0, so show a credit to Hebcal.com.
90 requests / 10 sThe published rate limit; a shul site is nowhere near it.
Source: Hebcal: developer APIs and widgets, checked Oct 2026.
What still needs a person
- Your own minyan times. Hebcal knows when the sun sets in your city; it doesn't know that your Mincha is 10 minutes before candle lighting or that Shacharit moves for Rosh Chodesh. Put those in one place, and name one person who updates them weekly.
- The right city and rule. Communities differ on how many minutes before sunset to light candles, and on when Shabbat ends. Set the widget to match your rabbi's practice, and say which rule you use.
- Where it goes. On the home page, above the fold, on a phone. The audit checks whether times can be found on the home page at all.
- Remove the old PDF. Two sets of times that disagree is worse than one.
