Sefaria

3.8
3.58K reviews
100K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Sefaria delivers 3,000 years of Jewish texts (Torah, Tanakh, Mishnah, Talmud, and more) to your smartphone. All texts in the library are available in Hebrew along with a growing body of English translations. Search by keyword or browse the table of contents to explore texts, translations, and commentaries. Plus - the entire library can fit on your phone (500MB) so you can learn while you're offline.

Sefaria is a non-profit organization that creates open source software and publishes digital texts with open licenses.

FEATURES

• Calendars for reading Parashat HaShavua, Daf Yomi, 929, Rambam Yomi and Mishnah Yomit
• Offline access to all texts and connections in Sefaria's library.
• Nine Torah commentaries in English: Rashi, Sforno, Or HaChaim, Rabbeinu Bahya, Rashbam, Siftei Chachmim, Chizkuni, Tur HaAroch and Rabbeinu Chananel
• Over 50 commentaries on Tanakh including Ibn Ezra, Ramban, Abarbanel, Kli Yakar, Alshich, Haamek Davar, Malbim, Shadal, Radak, Ralbag and Gur Aryeh
• Over 15 Mishnah commentaries including Bartenura, Ikar Tosafot Yom Tov, Rambam, Yachin, Boaz, Gra and Rosh Mishantz
• Over 30 Talmud Bavli commentaries including Rashi, Tosafot, Ritva, Rashba and Rosh.
• Other genres include Midrash, Halalkha, Kabbalah, Liturgy, Philosophy, Chasidut, Musar, Responsa, and more.

LEARN MORE

New texts are being added to the database all the time. Find out more about the project at: http://www.sefaria.org
Updated on
Mar 12, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
App activity, App info and performance, and Device or other IDs
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.8
3.3K reviews
A Google user
January 7, 2020
The resources on this app have been astoundingly helpful, especially on my journey as a Jew by choice (thank you for all the translations!). There are some significant technical issues since the most recent update however, like the Saved tab duplicating items or the app crashing when I try to open items from the Saved or History tabs. Will adjust rating when these issues are fixed.
46 people found this review helpful
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Ari Glix
July 30, 2020
Love the app and how smooth it functions! two things I noticed, I can't remove something from the history bar, (although big ups on keeping so much history) and when I select a pasuk and open commentaries, it keeps that selected text on the top of the page and if I scroll at all (in order to take a screenshot with the pasuk directly above the commentary) it automatically changes the selected text to the text at the top of the page, which I see almost entirely as a glitch. 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
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Chanoch Yaakov Wineberg
May 24, 2023
Lots of great content. But in an age where translations become the channel that students rely on to access the texts, it is all the more important to stick to traditional readings of the texts. Any other translation can be placed as commentary.. Editors - please add a pop up to allow the user to choose/be aware that a non traditional translation was used. Thanks!
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Sefaria
May 24, 2023
Information about each text in the Sefaria library can be found in the About section in the resource panel.

What's new

Bug fix:
- Fix issue where some books don’t open in offline mode
Feature:
- Reorganize the resources panel to match the design on Sefaria.org.
- Add the current versions being read to the “About” section of the resources panel