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sef
Sefaria ↗
The largest open-source library of Jewish texts — Tanakh, Talmud, Midrash, Halacha and commentary, fully interlinked, with a free public API.
texts · talmud · open source
heb
HebrewBooks.org ↗
Free scanned archive of tens of thousands of seforim, searchable by title, author, and subject.
seforim · scans · archive
otz
Otzar HaChochma ↗
The largest commercial digital seforim library, with full-text search across an enormous scanned corpus.
seforim · search · subscription
art
ArtScroll Digital Library ↗
Digital editions of the Schottenstein Shas, siddurim, and chumashim with the full ArtScroll translation and notes.
schottenstein · translation · shas
tor
torah.today ↗
A Torah library built around progressive depth — scripture, then the commentators, then the commentators on the commentators — with an AI chavrusa that sees the page you have open and quotes only word for word from the source.
library · reader · chavrusa
chb
Chabad.org ↗
Encyclopedic resource for Jewish life, with a sponsored suite of apps covering daily study, calendar, and Torah texts.
chassidus · halacha · daily
daf
All Daf ↗
Daf Yomi companion from the OU — daily shiurim from dozens of maggidei shiur, plus notes and review tools.
daf yomi · shiurim · OU
had
Hadran ↗
Talmud study resources built to make daily Gemara accessible to women at every level, with shiurim and review material.
talmud · women · daf yomi
mis
Mishnah.org ↗
Focused reader for the Mishnah Yomit cycle, built on open Torah text data.
mishnah · cycle · study
kov
Koveah ↗
Build a personalized Torah learning schedule — choose the sefer and the pace, and get daily reminders to stay on track.
schedule · reminders · kviyus
liv
Torah Live ↗
Animated and live-action video platform teaching halacha, middos and hashkafa, built for classrooms and families.
animation · halacha · chinuch
929
929 ↗
Daily Tanakh study cycle — one perek a day through all 929 chapters, with a commentary each day.
tanakh · cycle · daily
y101
Yeshiva 101 ↗
Interlinear Gemara reader with Rashi script support and a dashboard for the magid shiur to track a class.
gemara · interlinear · shiur
mik
Beis HaMikdash Builder ↗
Learn the structure of the Beis HaMikdash — each completed study unit builds the corresponding section in 3D.
mikdash · 3D · interactive
sid
Siddur on torah.today ↗
The siddur inside the torah.today reader — davening text in the same interface as the rest of the library, reached through the daily Chitas cycle.
siddur · tefillah · chitas
sid
Siddur (RustyBrick) ↗
Long-running mobile siddur with multiple nuschaos, location-aware zmanim, and automatic insertion of seasonal additions.
siddur · nusach · zmanim
myz
MyZmanim ↗
Precise halachic times computed for your exact location, with printable luchos and multiple shitos.
zmanim · shabbos · precision
hbc
Hebcal ↗
Jewish calendar, holidays, Torah readings and candle lighting — plus open REST, RSS, and iCalendar feeds under a permissive license.
calendar · API · open data
tat
TorahAnytime ↗
Vast free library of recorded shiurim from speakers across the Orthodox spectrum, with live streams and podcasts.
shiurim · video · free
yut
YUTorah ↗
Yeshiva University's shiur archive — tens of thousands of recordings organized by masechta, parsha, and speaker.
shiurim · YU · archive
mjl
My Jewish Learning ↗
Broad introductory reference on Jewish practice, history and text, aimed at readers new to a topic.
reference · articles · beginner
joo
Jooish News ↗
Aggregates Jewish news from a wide set of publications alongside community group feeds and status posts.
news · aggregator · community
yid
Yiddish24 ↗
Free Yiddish-language radio and podcast app carrying news, interviews, lectures, and a continuous music stream.
yiddish · radio · podcast
m101
Moshiach 101 ↗
Long-running aggregator of sources, news and commentary on Moshiach and Geula.
moshiach · geula · aggregator
ouk
OU Kosher ↗
Official OU product lookup, Passover guides, and kosher alerts direct from the certifying agency.
kosher · hashgacha · lookup
dic
Dicta ↗
Hebrew language technology for Jewish texts — automatic nikud, source identification, abbreviation expansion, and search.
NLP · nakdan · hebrew
cod
Torah Codes ↗
Search for equidistant letter sequences across the Torah text, visualize matrices, and save findings.
ELS · matrices · research
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Data and APIs.
Text & data APIs netunim
- Sefaria API Free ↗ Live access to the structured Jewish canon and its interconnections. No API key or authorization required.
- Sefaria data dumps Open source ↗ If you need your own database, download the full export rather than crawling the API.
- Hebcal REST APIs CC-BY ↗ Hebrew date conversion, calendar, Torah readings, and zmanim as JSON — plus RSS and iCalendar feeds.
- Dicta tools Free ↗ Hebrew NLP built for Jewish texts — automatic nikud, source identification, and abbreviation expansion.
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- Jerusalem Post — Tech ↗ Business and innovation desk of the English-language daily.
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- Ezra Brand ↗ Talmudic era, digital humanities, and computational approaches to rabbinic text.
- Sim Lev ↗ Reflective writing at the intersection of Torah and contemporary life.
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