Torah Library

Browse the library's table of contents by category. With no path: top-level categories (Tanakh, Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash, Halakhah, Kabbalah, Liturgy, Jewish Thought, Tosefta, Chasidut, Musar, Responsa, Second Temple, Reference). With a path like "Talmud/Bavli/Seder Moed" or "Halakhah/Shulchan Arukh": that category's description, subcategories and books.

Check whether a source sheet has been modified since a timestamp (ISO date/time).

Convert between Gregorian and Hebrew (Jewish) calendar dates. - Gregorian → Hebrew: pass gregorian_date (YYYY-MM-DD). Add end_date to convert a whole range (max ~180 days). - Hebrew → Gregorian: pass hebrew_year, hebrew_month, hebrew_day. Set after_sunset=true when the Gregorian time is after sunset (the Hebrew date advances at nightfall). Returns the Hebrew date in English and Hebrew letters plus any holidays/events on that day.

Autocomplete a partial Hebrew/Aramaic word against a dictionary ("Jastrow Dictionary", "Klein Dictionary", "BDB Augmented Strong").

Look up a Hebrew or Aramaic word in classic dictionaries (Jastrow, BDB, Klein, and others). Handles prefixes/inflected forms. Pass context_ref to disambiguate using the passage where the word appears.

Search for a city/place by name and get place ids, country and region. Use the returned id as the "location" argument of other tools when a city name is ambiguous.

Scan free text (a dvar Torah, article, shiur notes) and detect every citation of a Jewish source in it (e.g. "Genesis 1:1", "Berakhot 2a", "Rambam Hilchot Shabbat 1:1"). Returns the matched spans and their canonical references.

List the books written by an author. Pass the author slug (e.g. "rashi", "rambam", "ramban", "ibn-ezra", "rabbi-yosef-karo") — find slugs with resolve_name type AuthorTopic.

Metadata for a book: author(s), era, composition date and place, description, categories, alternative titles, section structure (e.g. Chapter/Verse, Daf/Line), chapter lengths, and alternate structures (e.g. parshiyot for Torah books). Optionally text availability counts.

Full, unabridged index record for a book (complete schema tree, match templates, alternate structures). Use get_book_info for a friendly summary.

Browse collections of source sheets: pass slug for one collection (with its sheets), user_id for a user's collections, or neither to list public collections (filterable by name).

Get commentaries and other sources connected to a passage. - With commentator (e.g. "Rashi", "Ramban", "Ibn Ezra", "Sforno", "Tosafot", "Or HaChaim", "Onkelos", "Kli Yakar"): returns that commentator's full text on the passage. - Without commentator: lists all connected sources in a category ("Commentary" by default; also Targum, Midrash, Talmud, Halakhah, Chasidut, Kabbalah, Musar, Jewish Thought, Liturgy, Responsa, Quoting Commentary, …) grouped by work, optionally with text. Works for Tanakh, Talmud, Mishnah, Rambam, Shulchan Arukh, etc.

List Jewish calendar events for a date range: holidays (major, minor, modern Israeli), Rosh Chodesh, fast days, special Shabbatot, weekly parsha, Omer count, molad, Yizkor, Yom Kippur Katan, daily-learning cycles (Daf Yomi, Mishna Yomi, Nach Yomi, Tanakh Yomi, Yerushalmi, Rambam, Chofetz Chaim), and — when a location is given — candle-lighting, havdalah and fast start/end times. Pick either start+end, or year (+ optional month). Max range ~1 year. Defaults include holidays, Rosh Chodesh, fasts, special Shabbatot and parsha.

Today's (or any date's) study schedule items with exact references: Parashat HaShavua, Haftarah, Daf Yomi, 929, Daily Mishnah, Daily Rambam (1 and 3 chapters), Daf a Week, Halakhah Yomit, Arukh HaShulchan Yomi, Tanakh Yomi, Chok LeYisrael, Tanya Yomi, Yerushalmi Yomi, and more.

Statistics: - kind "word_count": number of words in a specific version of a book (needs title, version_title, language he/en). - kind "links_between_categories": how many links connect two categories (e.g. Tanakh ↔ Talmud). - kind "text_availability": raw availability counts for a book.

Images of manuscripts and early printed editions (e.g. Vilna Shas, Venice 1523, Munich manuscript) for a passage, with image and thumbnail URLs.

Details for a weekly Torah portion by name (e.g. "Noach", "Lech Lecha", "Ki Tisa"): full reference, aliyot, haftarah, and the next date it will be read.

Given one or more segment references (e.g. "Berakhot 2a:1"), return the full logical passage/sugya each belongs to.

Get a random source together with the topic it illustrates — handy for a daily inspiration or quiz.

Get a random passage, optionally limited to specific books or categories (e.g. categories ["Tanakh"], titles ["Psalms", "Proverbs"]).

Overview of everything connected to a passage: counts of linked sources by category and book, related topics, source sheets that use it, manuscript images, and related web articles. Use it to explore before drilling in with get_commentaries.

Get the curated topic for the current parsha (kind "parasha") or the current/upcoming holiday (kind "holiday"), with description and key sources.

Candle-lighting and havdalah times for the coming (or a specified) Shabbat and any Yom Tov that week, plus the parsha and holiday Torah readings, for a location.

Source-sheet tags: "trending" (this week's trending tags), "all" (every tag, sorted by count or alphabetically), or a specific user's tags.

Get a user-made source sheet by id: title, author, tags, and each source (reference + text) and commentary block in order. Pass several ids to fetch up to 10 sheets.

Check the status/result of a background task (e.g. a long reference-detection job) by task_id.

Look up a named term (parsha names, section names, holidays, etc.) with its Hebrew and English titles and alternate spellings, e.g. "Noach", "Bereshit", "Perek".

Fetch any text from the Jewish library by reference, in Hebrew/Aramaic and/or translation, aligned segment by segment. Covers Tanakh, Mishnah, Talmud Bavli & Yerushalmi, Midrash, Rambam, Shulchan Arukh, commentaries (e.g. "Rashi on Genesis 1:1"), Siddur, Zohar, Chasidut, Musar, responsa and more. Reference examples: "Genesis 1:1-5", "Bereishit 1", "Berakhot 2a", "Berakhot 2a:3-7", "Mishnah Avot 1", "Mishneh Torah, Sabbath 1:1", "Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 1", "Psalms 23", "Ramban on Exodus 20:2". Returns segments as {n, he, en}; includes next/previous section refs for paging. If a reference fails, try resolve_name.

Generate a shareable image (PNG) of a short passage, sized for a social platform.

List every available edition and translation of a book (language, version title, license, source). Use a version_title with get_text to read a specific translation.

Fetch many short references in one call (e.g. a list of verses or commentary lines). Returns Hebrew and English for each. Up to 30 references.

Get a curated topic — a person (e.g. "moses", "rambam", "rabbi-akiva"), concept ("teshuvah", "kindness"), holiday ("passover"), mitzvah or object — with its description and its top sources, ordered by importance. Use resolve_name (type "Topic") or search_topics to find slugs.

Get the network of topics connected to a topic (e.g. students/teachers of a sage, parts of a concept). Optionally restrict to one link type such as "is-a", "has-student", "has-teacher", "related-to", "part-of".

Torah and Haftarah readings for a date or date range: parsha or holiday name, each aliyah with verse ranges and counts, maftir, haftarah, and special readings. Supports Israel vs Diaspora and the triennial cycle.

Public profile of a library user/author of source sheets, by profile slug (e.g. "dovid-birk").

Compute upcoming Gregorian dates for yahrzeits, Hebrew birthdays or Hebrew anniversaries from the original Gregorian date. Handles after-sunset, Adar in leap years, and Cheshvan/Kislev edge cases. Up to 10 entries at once.

Halachic times of day for a location and date (or date range, max ~7 days recommended): alot hashachar, misheyakir, sunrise (netz), latest Shema and Tefilla (GRA and Magen Avraham), chatzot, mincha gedola/ketana, plag hamincha, sunset (shkia), bein hashmashot, tzeit hakochavim (several opinions), and midnight.

For the next (or a named) Jewish holiday: its dates, a description, the Torah/Haftarah readings, and key classical sources with text. Examples: "Sukkot", "Chanukah", "Purim", "Pesach", "Shavuot", "Tisha B'Av", "Rosh Hashana".

Search the list of all books in the library by (part of) an English or Hebrew title, optionally within a category path. Returns canonical titles with their category.

List public source sheets: - by passage (ref): sheets that use a given text; - by user (user_id): a user's sheets, sortable by "views" or "date", with paging; - latest: newest public sheets (no ref/user_id).

Without a language: list every language code that has translations in the library. With a language code (e.g. "fr", "es", "de", "ru", "yi", "lad"): list every book translated into that language with its version titles.

Validate and normalize a text reference: canonical English and Hebrew forms, the book it belongs to, its structure, and previous/next sections.

Everything to study the weekly Torah portion: the reading (for a date, or by parsha name), aliyot and haftarah, the text of a chosen aliyah (Hebrew + English), a commentator's notes on its opening verses, and the parsha's topic and themes. Great for preparing a dvar Torah.

Recommend topics relevant to one or more passages (e.g. for tagging a source sheet or finding themes in a set of verses).

Autocomplete and identify a book title, reference, author, topic or person from partial, misspelled, transliterated or Hebrew input ("bava metzia", "bereishis", "ברכות ב", "Rambam"). Tells you whether the input is a valid reference and gives canonical names.

Full-text search across the entire Jewish library (texts), or across user-made source sheets. Hebrew or English queries. - exact=true matches the exact word forms; default matching is lemmatized (finds grammatical variants). - filters narrow by category/book path, e.g. ["Tanakh"], ["Talmud/Bavli"], ["Mishnah/Seder Moed"], ["Halakhah/Shulchan Arukh"], ["Tanakh/Torah/Genesis"]. - sort "relevance" or "chronological" (by composition date). Returns matching references with highlighted snippets, total hit count and a breakdown of hits by category (use it to refine filters). Paginate with offset.

List topics, optionally filtered by a word in the title. Without a filter returns the most prominent topics.

A ready-to-read Friday summary for a location: candle-lighting and havdalah times, the parsha with aliyot and haftarah, the opening verse of the parsha in Hebrew and English, and any holiday that week.

One-call daily briefing: today's Hebrew date, holidays/events, the weekly parsha, and every daily learning schedule (Daf Yomi, Rambam, Mishnah, 929, Halakhah Yomit, Tanya, etc.) with exact references. Optionally include the opening lines of each study item.