Chinuch has always been a gift economy with a filing problem. A rebbe finishes a workbook at 11:30 at night. A teacher in Montreal writes a year of Jewish history. A menahel builds sichos a child can bring to the Shabbos table. The work is real. The distribution is a Drive folder, a WhatsApp forward, and a photocopier that jams on erev Shabbos.
The Chinuch App marketplace is the first time that work has a storefront: a cover, a grade, a price (including free), and a path from one classroom into another without anyone asking for a favor.
These are some of the people who went first.
On the shelf
Alef Hub
Thoughtfully curated tools for the Jewish home. Their Alef Bais and kriah shelf is the one we are featuring below — preschool aleph bais, sensory work, toys that last, and a ksiva workbook kids actually use.
Rabbi Shmuel Ceitlin — Houston
A mechanech who put a whole classroom library on the store: Chassidus, Gemara, Chumash, nightly stories, tefilla cards, and the small daily things that make a cheder run. The listing on this shelf is his Daily Classroom Enrichment Set — a fun fact, a chassidishe thought, a discussion question, and a reflection, ready for the opening minutes of class.
Rabbi Mochkin — Lubavitch Educational Center, Florida
Sichos For Kids: a sicha and a story for the Shabbos table, grades 4–6. Student workbook for the year, teacher book, weekly slides.
Judaic Resources — Montreal
Discovering Our History is a Jewish history curriculum through the lives of Jewish women, creation through the second Beis Hamikdash. Thirty lessons, twenty women, and a creative project so a student can see her own place in the timeline.
Levi Lipinski — Philadelphia
A 5787 Hebrew wall calendar built for a Chabad classroom — months, basic halacha, special Chabad dates. Chinuch you can hang on the wall.
Featured: Alef Bais and kriah tools
Recommendations for Alef Bais & Kriah tools is the listing we are putting in front.
Alef Hub did not write another aleph-bais packet. They gathered what they actually use at home: Breakthrough preschool aleph bais, sensory work, wooden toys that do not snap like the cheap sets, and a ksiva workbook the kids ask for.
That is a different kind of chinuch product. Not a PDF that dies in a Drive folder. A curated aisle for the years when letters and nekudos are the whole day — so a parent or a gan teacher does not have to start from zero.
The store is Alef Hub.
Why this is pioneering
Until now, sharing Torah materials meant a person. You were on the right WhatsApp, or you weren't.
These listings did something new:
- A home educator published the kriah tools she actually uses, not a brochure.
- A rebbe put a daily classroom library on the shelf for every other cheder.
- A menahel put the Rebbe's sichos at a child's Shabbos table.
- A teacher wrote Jewish history through the lives of Jewish women, with a project at the end.
- A designer put the school year on the classroom wall.
Chinuch App did not invent the materials. It invented the aisle. The pioneers are the ones who were willing to put a cover on work that used to live in a drawer, and let another rebbe find it on purpose.
Tools we actually use for alef bais and kriah.
