The speech for your child's big day —
written about them, not about "a child."
A short guided interview about your kid and their actual Torah portion becomes three speech drafts in your community's voice — then every speaker in the family gets their own, and no story is told twice.
Free interview, no account · You'll see your speech before you pay a dollar
🔒 Private by default — your family's stories stay yours, and you approve every memory
Enter your child's birthday. We convert it to the Hebrew calendar, find their bar or bat mitzvah Shabbat, and name the parsha they'll read — the one their speeches will be built on. No signup. Ten seconds.
Send one link to the family group chat — the rabbi, the teachers, the camp friends, the aunts. Their words and photos land at your private Memory Desk, where you read, trim, approve, or decline every single one before it can touch a speech or the book. Try it — these two just arrived:
The week's Torah portion and what it genuinely teaches. Your community's voice — Orthodox to Reconstructionist to "culturally Jewish and proud of it." The heirloom that carries the story, the generations in the room, the blessing that closes it. One family's way of being Jewish is not another's; Nachas writes from yours.
Every Friday night since you were born, we've rested our hands on your head and said the same blessing. Tonight, for the first time, I understood we weren't blessing you. We were memorizing you. May you always know exactly who you are.
He practiced his Torah portion to the dog. Every night, around the block, for six months. By March, the dog howled the final note with him. The cantor does not know about the dog. Until now, I suppose.
How could you — a kid who negotiates bedtime like a hostage situation — have anything in common with Avraham, a desert nomad who argued with God? And yet. Parashat Lech Lecha is about leaving what's comfortable to become yourself. You do it every day.
Tap a card · every speaker gets all three, no story told twice — and when the rabbi says "keep it to three minutes," these already are
"May you carry your grandfather's name the way he carried it —
so that one day, someone is proud to carry yours."
— a father's closing blessing, written with Nachas
Every speech given on the bimah, the memories and blessings the community sent in, the candle lighting, the photos — gathered into one keepsake-ready collection. Years from now, they can open it and hear the room again.
Free to start · You'll see your speech before you pay a dollar · We're testing hardcover printing with beta families — tell us if you'd want one
Nachas is built on a curated library of all 54 Torah portions. You select the themes your child genuinely lives, back each with a real story, and the speech is built from that curated material and your family's own words, with real guardrails against invented Torah and generic filler — and you review every line before anyone hears it. It also coordinates multiple speakers so no story or theme is repeated.
Yes. You choose your community's voice — Orthodox (Hashem, Shabbos, Torah and mitzvos), Conservative, Reform, or culturally Jewish — and every speech, couplet, and book page speaks that way.
That's the heart of Nachas. One family profile, separate interviews for each speaker, and every speech is written knowing what the others say. Dad's story stays Dad's; Grandma's stays Grandma's. Each Torah theme belongs to exactly one speaker.
Send one link to the family group chat — the rabbi, teachers, camp friends, the aunts. Their memories and photos land at your private Memory Desk, where you read, trim, approve, or decline each one before it can appear in any speech or the Simcha Book. Nothing is public, and nothing enters the simcha without you.
A keepsake-ready collection built automatically from your simcha: the parsha and its themes in your family's words, every speech, memories and blessings collected from the rabbi, teachers, and friends, the candle-lighting ceremony, and a closing page of the family's wishes. The Simcha Book is in beta: during beta it's delivered as a simple digital draft you can view in the app and save or print from your browser. We're still testing the full format — beta families may be asked for feedback before we finalize it.
The full interview is free — and before paying anything you'll see your speech's complete blueprint and its opening paragraph, fully written. One payment of $79 unlocks the entire simcha: the writer's follow-up interview that makes each speech unmistakably yours, every speaker's three full drafts, unlimited revisions, the candle-lighting ceremony, and the Simcha Book (beta). If it doesn't move the room, email us within 30 days for a full refund.
Not speech week yet? Most families write the speeches in the last month. Leave your email and we'll check in once, closer to the simcha — the interview will be right here when you're ready.
No spam. One simcha's worth of help, then silence.