Rachel Buckman - Sr. Education Associate
Important links
- Sefaria: www.sefaria.org
- Sefaria Apps: Android and iOS
- Free account sign-up
- Newsletter sign-up
- The Sefaria Classroom: Where Educators Share, Ask, and Think Together
- Teach with Sefaria - Educator resources on Sefaria
- Ten Sefaria Learning Tips - A series of 10 bite-sized learning tips to help you use Sefaria as a transformative and empowering teaching tool.
- The Jewish Educator Portal - Option to filter for Sefaria
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.
- 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.
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 topic 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.
- Learn more with our Topics tutorial.
Sheets are created by Sefaria users and draw together sources, outside texts, and media.
- Access sheets by clicking 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.
- Learn more on "Making a Source Sheet on the New Editor" and "Collections".
- Click here to access the new sheet editor.
Sefaria accounts
- Sefaria accounts are free and easy to create. (Make sure to check the "I am an educator" box).
- Having a Sefaria account allows you to:
- Create sheets
- View your reading history and track your learning