Sefaria 101 Webinar May 2022

What is Sefaria?

Usership continues to grow. Sefaria is currently being visited by approximately 500,000 individual users a month!

Sefaria was launched in 2013 and the library has grown to over 250 million words.

At Sefaria we are building an extensive library of Jewish texts and the tools to go with it.

Finding texts on Sefaria

Keep up with your learning schedule (weekly Torah portion, daf yomi, ect.) on the Learning Schedule page.

You can search for a text in the search bar (e.g. "Genesis 2:1") or visit the library page to explore the Sefaria library.

Sefaria provides you with easy access to a vast virtual library of works which span thousands of years and locations. Texts are linked to one another so that you can easily move between different sources.

Using the resource panel

As you are reading a text, you can click on a passage to bring up the resource panel. This panel contains connected texts, sheets, topics, web pages, audio, and more.

Using Sefaria's Topics feature

Learn more with our Topics tutorial.

Type a keyword or topic into the search bar and find the result with # before it to navigate to the topic’s page.

Find popular topic categories in the Topics section of the homepage.

You can access Topics in a variety of ways:

With Sefaria’s Topics feature, you can search a topic keyword and Sefaria will show you the most relevant sources, user-created sheets, and related topics — all in one place.

Learn about the text you are reading

Set the way that you would like to view the text in the Aא menu. Choices include language, layout, font size, and vocalization, if applicable.

Read detailed descriptions in the "About This Text" section in the resource panel. Information includes the author's name, source of the text, and license details.

Read short descriptions of each text as you click through the library page.

Sheets are created by Sefaria users and draw together sources, outside texts, and media.

Find sheets on Topics pages.

Click on a passage to bring up the resource panel. From there, click on "Sheets" to access all of the public sheets connected to the text that you are looking at.

You can access sheets in a variety of ways:

Sheets can always be edited, they can be collaborative, and they can be made public to share with the Sefaria community.

Sefaria accounts

Use Chavruta

Take notes

Save text and sheets

View your reading history and track your learning with our Torah Tracker

Create sheets

Having a Sefaria account allows you to:

Sefaria accounts are free and easy to create.

Resources for rabbis and educators