The Chofetz Chaim on guarding speech, word by word
My Shemirat HaLashon opens the Chofetz Chaim's sefer on the halachos and hashkafah of speech — Book I's three gates and Book II's chapters, 86 perakim in all, every word pointed. Read it with the English beside it, the word-by-word translation under it, the root coloured inside each word, or the dikduk marked — the same switches as every sefer in the library, and they stay on from sefer to sefer.
80,650 words scored with the app's own code · 12 Oct 2026
Word-by-word English
93.7%
Printed with vowels
97.9%
Shoresh coloured
37.8%
Full translation
94%
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
The whole sefer, fully pointed
The Hebrew is the Torat Emet edition and arrives with nekudos on every word — so the vowels switch is simply always there, on all 899 paragraphs, with nothing to author and nothing to wait for.
Organized as the Chofetz Chaim built it
Book I is an introduction, Sha'ar HaZechirah, Sha'ar HaTevunah, Sha'ar HaTorah and an epilogue; Book II is thirty chapters and its own epilogue. The picker groups by gate; next and previous walk the sefer straight through, the way it is printed.
English that never sits under the wrong Hebrew
R' Shraga Silverstein's translation covers 845 of 899 paragraphs. Where the translator left a paragraph, the app shows a blank in that paragraph's own place — never a neighbour shifted up — and the word-by-word translation covers everything.
Shoresh and Dikduk, like every other sefer
One switch colours the root inside every word; the other colours what was put before it and after it. A child who learns shmiras halashon this way reads the siddur the same way.
The daily cycle, already open
Shemirat HaLashon Yomi — the yearly cycle printed in the back of the sefer, Rosh Hashanah to Rosh Hashanah — is offered at the top of the page: today's perek and paragraphs, resolved from the published calendar, with the day turning at nightfall like every daily app here.
Who it's for — For anyone learning the two-page-a-day cycle, for a family taking a perek at the Shabbos table, and for a school teaching shmiras halashon with the sefer itself rather than a summary of it. Premium and up — it sits with the Beis Midrash shelf, the first sefer on the Mussar shelf.
