Two orthodox Jewish
programmers saw a need. “There are a lot of frum Jews who want to create
halachically problematic apps, but feel maligned by the community when they do
so,” says “Ch,” (who wishes to remain anonymous).
“There are plenty of
programmers who are helping facilitate for people do all types of issurim, but
who is helping the programmers themselves?” adds his partner “Sh” (who also
wishes to remain anonymous).
For this very purpose, Ch.
and Sh. have created the “Moreh Heter App Creator” app, which, they claim,
allows programmers to create their own problematic apps in a halachically
preferable matter.
“The גרמא function,
which enables a 5 second pause between uploading their app to the itunes or
android store and its actual appearance there is only one of the features,” Sh.
told us. “We also have the עיברי דנהרא חד feature, which makes their app available in
multiple versions so that they will not be עובר on לפני עור.”
While
Sh. and Ch. hope for some financial success from their app, they are primarily
doing it to help those in need.
“All
because someone wants to break halacha, “Ch. said, “is no reason to make them
feel like they are breaking Halacha”.
