Sefaria 101 : Introducing Sefaria's New Design
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BySefaria Education
Rachel Buckman - Sr. Education Associate
Estee Ellis - ​​​​​​​Communications Associate
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  1. 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!
  2. Navigating Sefaria's new design
    • Sefaria's new design can help you to find new ways to engage with the library and deepen your Jewish learning.
    • Get a complete tour: Navigating Sefaria's New Design
  3. 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 home page to explore the Sefaria library.
    • Get more information: "Finding Texts"
  4. Using the resource panel
  5. 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:
      1. Find popular topic categories in the Topics section of the header.
      2. Type a keyword or topic into the search bar and find the result with # before it to navigate to the topic’s page.
  6. 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:
      1. 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.
      2. Find sheets on Topics pages.
  7. Sefaria accounts
    • Sefaria accounts are free and easy to create.
    • Having a Sefaria account allows you to:
      1. Create sheets
      2. View your reading history and track your learning with our Torah Tracker
      3. Save text and sheets
      4. Take notes
      5. Use Chavruta
  8. Resources for rabbis and educators
  9. Closing items
  10. Thank you for coming to today's webinar! We're grateful to have you in the Sefaria community.