Help resources
- Sefaria Help Center
- Contact Sefaria's team anytime at [email protected]
Important links
What is Sefaria?
- At Sefaria we are building an extensive library of Jewish texts and the tools to go with it.
- Sefaria was launched in 2013 and the library has grown to over 250 million words.
- Usership continues to grow. Sefaria is currently being visited by approximately 500,000 individual users a month!
- Learn more about Sefaria's history and mission.
Finding texts on Sefaria
- 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.
- 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.
- Keep up with your learning schedule (weekly Torah portion, daf yomi, ect.) on the Learning Schedule page.
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.
- Discover all the materials available in the resource panel.
Using Sefaria's Topics feature
- 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.
- You can access Topics in a variety of ways:
- Find popular topic categories in the Topics section of the homepage.
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Type a keyword or topic into the search bar and find the result with # before it to navigate to the topic’s page.
- Learn more with our Topics tutorial.
Learn about the text you are reading
- Read short descriptions of each text as you click through the library page.
- 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.
- 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.
Sefaria Sheets
- Sheets are created by Sefaria users and draw together sources, outside texts, and media.
- Sheets can always be edited, they can be collaborative, and they can be made public to share with the Sefaria community.
- You can access sheets in a variety of ways:
- 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.
- Find sheets on Topics pages.
- Learn more on "Making a Source Sheet".
Sefaria Accounts
- Sefaria accounts are free and easy to create.
- Having a Sefaria account allows you to:
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Create sheets
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View your reading history and track your learning with our Torah Tracker
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Save text and sheets
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Take notes
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Use Chavruta
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Create sheets
- Learn how and why to create a Sefaria account.
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Sefaria is a 501(3)(c) charitable organization and depends on the generosity of our donors. For information about becoming a donor, see Ways to Give or write to us at [email protected].
Seventy Faces Scavenger Hunt Question 1!
Will Hillel and Shammai (or their students, Beit Hillel and Beit Shammai) ever get along?? When will their machloket (holy disagreement) end?? One answer is a “top hit” on Machloket’s topics page!