The Chofetz Chaim on Orach Chayim, all 697 simanim
My Mishnah Berurah opens the whole sefer — 697 simanim, 17,394 se’ifim katanim — with an English word under every Hebrew one. It runs over the same simanim as My Shulchan Aruch, so the text and the commentary on it open side by side. Every note keeps the se’if katan number the Chofetz Chaim gave it, shown as printed rather than counted, because that number is what keys a note to the se’if it explains.
659,202 words scored with the app's own code · 12 Oct 2026
Word-by-word English
95.5%
Printed with vowels
9.6%
Shoresh coloured
32.9%
Full translation
3.7%
Shoresh colouring needs the word's root in the app's own table, which is still being filled — so that number is a count, not a ceiling, and it rises with every release. Every word is still read, glossed and heard.
What it does
Complete, and checked against its own structure
All 697 simanim carry text and none is empty. The note counts track the Shulchan Aruch’s own simanim, which is how an import proves it did not quietly drop one — a siman with many se’ifim and only a handful of notes would have shown up immediately.
Nekudos on the simanim you open first
The opening simanim are fully pointed and the count grows weekly — the siman list badges every pointed one, so what can be read with nekudos is never a guess. A se’if is pointed whole or not at all, because a half-pointed one leaves a learner unable to tell which words were checked. Rashei teivos are never pointed: an abbreviation stands for words that are not written.
Honest about the English
Sefaria’s community translation covers 37 simanim in full, and those are badged in the list. 120 more are partly translated and marked as such; the rest say plainly that no translation exists. A part-translated siman shows none, because pairing one note’s English under another note’s Hebrew is worse than showing nothing at all.
The word-by-word covers all of it
The interlinear is generated from the app’s own halachic lexicon rather than fetched, so it works on every siman from the first day — measured at 96–97% of words carrying a gloss across simanim sampled through the sefer.
Before you ask
Can I read it with vowels?
Simanim 1–60, yes — hashkomas haboker, tzitzis, tefillin, birchos hashachar and into hilchos krias shema, and growing. The Mishnah Berurah prints unpointed, so every vowel here is a reading someone checked: a se'if is pointed whole or not at all, and rashei teivos are never pointed.
Who it's for — For anyone learning Mishnah Berurah who wants the Hebrew to move at reading speed, and for a rebbi teaching hilchos from the source rather than from a summary. Premium and up — it sits with the Beis Midrash shelf alongside My Shulchan Aruch.
