Sefaria

Nonprofit / Open Data / Jewish Educational Technology

Sefaria is dedicated to building the future of Jewish learning in an open and participatory way. We are creating a free living library of Jewish texts and their interconnections - Bible, Talmud, Midrash, Chasidut, Kabbalah, Liturgy, Responsa... Our goal is to support learners, educators, and developers by providing open access to our digital texts and tools that enable new forms of engagement with this ancient tradition.

Resources Offered

Open Texts

Access to thousands of Jewish texts in Hebrew and in translation, which are made available via a Creative Commons license.

API

Sefaria offers a powerful API that allows developers to create apps and integrate with the platform to bring Jewish texts to new audiences.

Source Sheets

Users can create source sheets using Sefaria’s texts for educational or personal study, fostering community engagement and collaborative learning.

Learning Tools

Interactive tools that help individuals and educators explore Jewish texts and their commentaries in depth.

Community Support

A platform for users to contribute translations, corrections, and annotations to improve the quality and breadth of available texts.

Data Sets

Comprehensive datasets of Jewish texts that can be used in machine learning to analyze linguistic patterns, cultural insights, or historical trends within Jewish literature.

Contributions to the Community

• Educational Outreach: Providing educators with resources and tools to bring Jewish texts into the classroom in dynamic ways.
• Research Enablement: Offering datasets and tools that assist scholars in conducting textual analysis, comparative studies, and historical research.
• Cultural Preservation: Digitizing and preserving Jewish texts, many of which are rare or out of print, ensuring they remain accessible to future generations.

Innovation and Development

• Machine Learning Projects: Collaborating on projects that use AI to translate, analyze, and categorize Jewish texts.
• Open Source Development: Encouraging the tech community to contribute to Sefaria’s platform, ensuring that it remains cutting-edge and community-driven.
• Digital Humanities Advancement: Playing a pioneering role in the integration of traditional texts with modern technology, advancing the field of digital humanities.

How to Get Involved

• Data Utilization: Encouraging developers and researchers to utilize our datasets for innovative projects.
• Contributions: Welcoming translations, annotations, and textual corrections from users.
• Development: Open call for developers to contribute to our codebase, enhancing the Sefaria platform.

Contact Information

• Website: Sefaria's Website
• API Docs: Project Github Repo
• Email: hello@sefaria.org for collaborations and support.