When you become an Illuminator of the Mesorah Heritage Foundation - you will be entitiled to a free copy of the Mesorah Heritage Foundation's Desk Diary.

This The Heritage Desk Diary covers the calendar from September 2024 through December 2025, a sixteen-month period that includes both the entire Jewish year 5785 and the entire secular year 2025. Dates are given according to both the secular and Jewish calendars; and the red-letter days of each calendar are noted. The diary will prove an indispensable tool for anyone who must keep track of appointments or a log of daily accomplishments. Students and teachers can use it for the 2024/2025 school year; rabbis and synagogue officials will find it handy for the year 5784 and business people and professionals can schedule sixteen months of appointments, conferences and deadlines.

Prayers (such as penitential selichos, or relevant psalms) recited on special occasions are listed, along with other information about the daily prayer services, in the margin of the day on which they are recited.

Candle-lighting times for the Sabbath and Festivals are given for New York City, on the calendar page; for 60 American and 54 foreign cities, at the end of the planner. For the second night of a Festival, the candles should not be lit before 45 minutes after sunset (later, in the far northern latitudes; some wait until 72 minutes after sunset in any case). However, if the Festival falls on a Friday, the Sabbath candles should be lit 18 minutes before sunset.

Select readings appear at the beginning and end of each week in this Diary:
(a) a Talmudic aphorism, culled from The Schottenstein Edition of the Talmud; (b) pertinent laws or inspirational excerpt, culled from Living Emunah; Milstein edition of the Later Prophets; Kleinman Edition of Midrash Rabbah; Jaffa Edition of Mesilas Yesharim; as well as from various other ArtScroll volumes.