Jewish and Torah Tech Projects: A Curated Collection
This is a curated collection of technological projects for Jewish religious life. It covers AI tools, Hebrew calendar utilities, text study platforms, MCP servers, home automation, and more. The list focuses on projects specifically intended for religiously observant Jews, rather than general Israel/Israeli tech projects.
GitHub: danielrosehill/Jewish-AI-Projects
Collection of technological projects for Jewish religious life — AI tools, Hebrew calendar, text study, MCP servers, home automation, and more
AI Chatbots and Assistants
AI Torah — AI-powered Torah learning platform with personalized paths, interactive tutors, and multilingual access
ChavrutAI — Web app making the Talmud more accessible through a digital interface
EzraBrand/chavrutai ★ 6A web app designed to make the Talmud more accessible through a digital interface leveraging modern web technologies.
digital-humanitiessefariatalmudJude the Judaic ChatBot — Local AI study assistant using Sefaria corpus and Ollama with Hebrew support
GilCaplan/JudeTheJudaicChatBot ★ 0Jude is a local AI Judaic study assistant. Ask questions about Torah, Talmud, Halacha, Kabbalah, and more — it retrieves relevant passages from a Sefaria-sourced text corpus, filters them, and streams a cited answer. Runs fully offline via Ollama. Supports Hebrew input, three query modes, and links every source back to Sefaria.
Rabbi AI — AI chatbot providing Jewish wisdom and Torah knowledge with verified source citations
Rebbe.io — AI-powered rabbi providing Torah insights and halacha answers
Torah Scholar — AI-powered Jewish text research across Tanach, Talmud, and commentaries
abeperl/torah-scholar ★ 0AI-powered Jewish text research: Search Tanach, Talmud & commentaries instantly.
Kosher AI — AI assistant for Jewish life
KosherGPT — GPT-powered assistant for kosher and Jewish topics
Rav Chat — AI assistant for Torah study
APIs and Developer Resources
Hebcal API — Jewish calendar API with holidays, zmanim, and more
Sefaria API — REST API for accessing Sefaria's library of Jewish texts
TorahCalc API — API for Torah-related calculations and conversions
Calendar and Zmanim Libraries
Hebcal — A perpetual Jewish calendar (C, ES6, Go implementations)
hebcal/hebcal ★ 175A perpetual Jewish Calendar
calendarhebcalhebrew-calendarhebrew-datejewish-calendarKosherJava Zmanim — Comprehensive Java library for calculating zmanim (halachic times)
KosherJava/zmanim ★ 126KosherJava Zmanim API / Library
calendarsdaf-yomidawnduskhebrew-calendarKosherZmanim — JavaScript/TypeScript library for calculating zmanim
BehindTheMath/KosherZmanim ★ 43Port of the KosherJava zmanim library to TypeScript
daf-yomihebrew-calendarhebrew-datejewish-holidaysnodejspyluach — Python library for Jewish calendar dates
simlist/pyluach ★ 68A Python package for manipulating Hebrew (Jewish) calendar dates and Hebrew-Gregorian conversion.
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MCP Servers (Model Context Protocol)
Hebcal MCP — Hebrew calendar and zmanim calculations via MCP
hebcal/hebcal-mcp ★ 5Model Context Protocol extension for Hebrew calendar
Otzaria MCP Server — Makes the Jewish library accessible to LLMs with full-text search
Sivan22/mcp-otzaria-server ★ 21makes the jewish library accessible to LLMs through the MCP protocol
aijudaismllmSefer Graph — Torah citation knowledge graph with 1.9M+ citations via MCP
mordechaipotash/sefer-graph View on GitHubZmanim MCP Server — MCP server for calculating Jewish prayer times for any location
ariroffe72/zmanim-mcp-server ★ 1A comprehensive MCP server for calculating Jewish prayer times (zmanim).
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Jewish Texts and Study Tools
Otzaria — A modern app that brings the Jewish library to every device
Sivan22/otzaria ★ 202A modern app that brings the jewish library to every device
e-booksflutterjudaismtorahSefaria Project — Open source platform for Jewish texts with extensive API
Sefaria/Sefaria-Project ★ 739New Interfaces for Jewish Texts
jewishtalmudtorahParsha Map — Interactive Torah portions on an ancient Near East map with historical context
myrondoesnotcode/parsha-map ★ 0Interactive Parsha Map — Torah portions on an ancient Near East map with historical context, territory overlays, and timeline
Home Assistant and Smart Home
Home Assistant Jewish Calendar — Official integration for Jewish calendar sensors
Jewish Sabbaths and Holidays — Home Assistant integration for Shabbat and Yom Tov times via HebCal API
rt400/Jewish-Sabbaths-Holidays ★ 16Jewish Shabbat Yomtov and Holidays times and event
hacsholidaysjewishsensorshabbatShabbat Card — Animated Shabbat/Yom Tov status card for Home Assistant with sun-driven sky and melting candle
adriangith/shabbat-card ★ 0Animated Shabbat/Yom Tov status card for Home Assistant with sun-driven sky, melting candle, and progress tracking
Shabbat Tools
Pause for Shabbat — Auto-sets Outlook email autoresponder for Shabbat
mikekilcoyne/pause_for_shabbat ★ 0Sets up an email autoresponder (for Outlook, soon Gmail) to setup automatically for Shabbat.
Shabbat Blocker — JavaScript file that blocks usage on Shabbat
MOSHHHHHH/Shabbat-blocker ★ 1A simple JavaScript file that blocks usage on Saturday (Friday at 8:00 PM to Saturday at 5:00 PM)
Shabbat Timetable — Universal Shabbat prayer timetable generator using Hebcal API
Israel-Kli/shabbat-timetable ★ 0Universal Shabbat prayer timetable generator - auto-fetches candle lighting, zmanim, parasha and Hebrew dates from Hebcal API. Optimized for A4 printing.
AI Transcription
Sofer.ai — AI transcription for shiurim with multilingual support (English, Hebrew, Aramaic, Yiddish)
Datasets
Sefaria English Library — English-language Jewish text library on Hugging Face
Sefaria Hebrew Library — Hebrew-language Jewish text library on Hugging Face
The full repository includes many more projects across categories like Kosher/Kashrut tools, NLP and text analysis, daily learning schedules, custom GPTs, and development components. Visit the GitHub repository for the complete list.
Daniel Rosehill
AI developer and technologist specializing in AI systems, workflow orchestration, and automation. Specific interests include agentic AI, workflows, MCP, STT and ASR, and multimodal AI.
