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Sefaria Staff Pick of the Month

Darshan AI

Educators, take notice! This platform can create an entire source sheet or lesson plan with just a few clicks. Plus, it will cite sources and link them to the Sefaria Library so you can confirm sources and learn with context.

Weekday Torah Readings with AI Insights

This project provides experimental AI-generated insights to accompany each weekday Torah reading, alongside the biblical text in both Hebrew and English.

In addition to the projects below, there are also 150+ websites using the Sefaria Linker to automatically link textual citations to the Sefaria Library. Learn more and view a list of websites using the Linker >> .

AI Projects

• Build a Torah-Powered AI Chatbot - A tutorial for building a simple Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) chatbot that answers questions using only the Five Books of Moses (Chumash).
• ChavrutAI - Free digital platform designed to make the Babylonian Talmud accessible through modern technology and intuitive design.
• DafBuddy - A free platform that supports Gemara learning for students of all backgrounds by drawing on Sefaria’s text and translation API, integrating page-based layouts reflecting the traditional structure of a Talmud page, and offering an AI-powered study companion.
• Dafyomi AI Summary - Explores, summarizes, and translates key insights from the Talmud.
• Darshan AI - A platform that can create an entire lesson with just a few clicks, as well as citing sources and linking to the Sefaria Library.
• GoTorah! - Intelligent chat that adapts to each user, offering contextual learning through sage-specific dialogue, chavruta study, and guided discovery. The acclaimed Dvar Torah feature instantly generates ready-to-use, source-based sermons that can be customized according to difficulty, length, and occasion.
• Ituria - AI-agent based search (GitHub repository) based on Otzaria.
• Orayta: Torah in Your Time - AI-powered learning app that helps busy people integrate Torah study into daily life by providing a tailored learning session with direct links to the Sefaria Library.
• RavGPT.ai - AI model designed to make Torah learning more accessible.
• Seferai.org - Helps users explore Jewish texts with AI-powered insights.
• TzadekAI - A halakhic Q&A application using data from Sefaria to explore how rabbinic voices from different historical periods approached similar questions.
• Weekday Torah Readings with AI Insights - Provides experimental AI insights for each reading of the weekday Torah readings, alongside the biblical texts in both Hebrew and English.
• Yanki - All-in-one app built according to traditional halakhic values, offering secure access to Torah content, mitzvah tools, kosher services, and community features — all in a filtered, AI-powered ecosystem for the frum Jewish world to enjoy.

Study Tools

• AlHaTorah - Tools for studying Tanakh, including biblical commentaries sourced from the Sefaria Library.
• AllDaf - Daf Yomi app created by the Orthodox Union with an English translation of the Talmud sourced from the Sefaria Library.
• Arukh HaShulchan Yomi - Daily learning about the halakhah (Jewish law) that governs daily life.
• Daf Quiz - Web application that generates a daily multiple-choice quiz based on the relevant page of Talmud, according to the Daf Yomi cycle. (Link to source code: https://github.com/bentekkie/daf_quiz)
• Daily Torah Study Trmnl Plugin - Plugin for the Trmnl, which uses Sefaria’s Calendars API to present a daily Torah study schedule.
• Hadran - An organization dedicated to inspiring women to learn Talmud, providing Daf Yomi classes that use text from the Sefaria Library.
• HaTanakh.com - Rich content for studying Tanakh, including biblical commentaries sourced from the Sefaria Library.
• Kindle Seforim - Makes sources from the Sefaria Library readable on any Amazon Kindle device.
• Koveah - Create your own custom learning schedule using sources from the Sefaria Library.
• The Lightweight Hebrew Bible Reader - Enables readers to read, search, and explore the Tanakh with ease. Available both in mobile app and web versions.
• Shnayim Mikra - App and interface for learning Torah alongside Rashi’s commentary.
• Siddurim.com - Real siddur featuring original pages of the Kavanat Halev siddur, Nusach Edot HaMizrach.
• Talmud.page - A simpler way to read the Talmud (among other texts), optimized for both mobile and web reading experiences.
• Tanach Study - Online education platform that revolutionizes the way we study our foundational texts.
• The Daf Yomi Portal - App designed to support daily Talmud study, with English text from the Sefaria Library.
• The People's Talmud - Free, searchable online platform offering over 7,500 sections of the Talmud, 3,500 thematic links, and 3,000 one-line brain teasers designed to guide users through the Talmud’s wisdom in a personalized, curiosity-driven way.
• Torah Library Add On for Google Docs - Helps users create beautiful and collaborative source sheets with ease.
• TorahApp - Integrates the Sefaria Library with shiurim (lessons) from YUTorah & OUTorah.
• TorahSummary - Short summaries of the entire text of the Torah with links to the sources.
• Yamim Noraim Machzor - App designed to help users learn to lead prayers for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

Apps & Other Tools

• Abba Saul - A mishnah bot for Discord users.
• Artscroll Smart Siddur - A siddur app by Artscroll.
• Goof - App that shows where parts of the human body show up in liturgical text.
• Mishnah.org - Platform that uses texts from the Sefaria Library to support Mishnah study.
• Parasha Bytes - Helps users explore the foods of the Torah.
• Pninim - Platform that helps users write personal insights on Talmud.
• Shitufta - Unique Torah database, in Hebrew, designed according to a traditional page layout.
• Shulkhan - A touch interface for the printed Talmud.
• The Jewish Story Through Books - Shows where and when Jewish books were published throughout the ages.
• Zohar-stories.com - Digital database of the stories of the sages that appear in the Zohar literature.
• Bina v’Da’at - Interactive AI-powered Hebrew chatbot designed to support Torah learning.

Visualization & Data Analysis

• Besasefer- Analytical search engine for exploring the Tanakh.
• Gematriaphone - Tool for turning Torah text into music by using Gematria.
• Liz Shayne's Visualizations of Sefaria Links - Provides an artistic expression of the interconnections found in the Sefaria Library (code on GitHub).
• Quantified Cantillation - Provides users with a way to find out the possibilities of trope sequences as well as the probability of transition from one to another.
• Russel Neiss's Micrography - Converts an image and Jewish textual source into a computer-generated micrograph.
• Sefer Similarity Map - Uncovers the substructure of Jewish texts and visualizes the underlying relationships between them.
• Sefaria Networks - Studies the networks that use Sefaria.
• Tanakh Experiments by David Komer - Visualizations based on gematria and color.
• The Talmud Commentary Atlas - Visualization of a selection of Sefaria’s data, including five visualizations presenting perspectives about Jewish scholarly commentaries on the Babylonian Talmud.
• Visualizations of Sefaria - Provides visualizations of the landscape of Jewish texts.
• Eitz HaRabanim - This project uses Sefaria data to create an interactive tree visualization of Talmudic sages, showing their teacher–student relationships and chronological connections, with dedicated pages for each rabbi. Github documentation

Community, Interaction, & Social

• AI Supported Chevrusa - AI-powered bot that can answer questions about Jewish texts.
• Daily Daf Tracker - AI-powered platform where users can ask questions about daily pages of Talmud
• Jew and A - Presents questions with answers from the Jewish library.
• Shulert - The ultimate app dedicated to organizing and enhancing your davening experience.
• T'Feeling - Explores the connections between tefillah (prayer) and emotions.
• TorahBot for Mi Yodea - Cite sources and brings texts automatically into Mi Yodea.
• Tweet Yomi - Creates daily Torah tweets.

Extensions, API Integrations and GitHub code

• Learn - CLI for accessing text from Sefaria in the terminal.
• Sefaria Sidebar Extension, code on GitHub - Sidebar that brings up Sefaria resources on other related websites.
• I’m Learning Lucky, code on GitHub - Chrome browser extension for Sefaria.org utilizing the Sefaria API to raise fun insights while studying a text on the platform.
• Talmud Sidebar Extension, code on GitHub - Brings the comprehensive Sefaria library to any webpage that is learning a specific daf of Talmud.
• Alexa Torah Scholar, code on GitHub - Ask Amazon Alexa to recite verses and commentary from Tanakh.
• Sefaria Extension for Raycast - An unofficial Raycast extension that provides access to Sefaria.org, the free digital library of Jewish texts, through the Sefaria API.
• RecurrentRav, code on GitHub - Recurrent Neural Network generation of pseudo-Mishnah, powered by Sefaria.
• Sefaria .NET Framework, code on GitHub
• Sefaria Embedded, code on GitHub - A server for generating embeddable iframes for texts via Sefaria API.
• Sefaria Wordpress Plugin, code on Github
• Shnayim Mikrah - A wrapper over the Sefaria API to enable presenting Shnayim Mikrah text by aliyah.
• Yolaroo Library of Jewish Texts, code on GitHub
• Sefaria-Container-Unofficial - Builds and publishes a docker container to run Sefaria
• Sefaria-Desktop-Unofficial - Desktop app for the Sefaria Library. Work in progress. Currently only Linux-supported.