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

GitHub Repository danielrosehill/Jewish-AI-Projects Collection of technological projects for Jewish religious life — AI tools, Hebrew calendar, text study, MCP servers, home automation, and more ★ 12Updated Apr 2026 indexesjewishjudaismtorah View on GitHub

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
Jude the Judaic ChatBot — Local AI study assistant using Sefaria corpus and Ollama with Hebrew support
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
Kosher AI — AI assistant for Jewish life
KosherGPT — GPT-powered assistant for kosher and Jewish topics
Rav Chat — AI assistant for Torah study

GitHub Repository EzraBrand/chavrutai A web app designed to make the Talmud more accessible through a digital interface leveraging modern web technologies. ★ 9TypeScriptMITUpdated Nov 2026 digital-humanitiessefariatalmud View on GitHub GitHub Repository GilCaplan/JudeTheJudaicChatBot Jude 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. ★ 2PythonUpdated Sept 2026 View on GitHub GitHub Repository abeperl/torah-scholar AI-powered Jewish text research: Search Tanach, Talmud & commentaries instantly. PythonUpdated Feb 2026 View on GitHub

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)
KosherJava Zmanim — Comprehensive Java library for calculating zmanim (halachic times)
KosherZmanim — JavaScript/TypeScript library for calculating zmanim
pyluach — Python library for Jewish calendar dates

GitHub Repository hebcal/hebcal A perpetual Jewish Calendar ★ 189GoGPL-2.0Updated Oct 2026 calendarhebcalhebrew-calendarhebrew-datejewish-calendar View on GitHub GitHub Repository KosherJava/zmanim KosherJava Zmanim API / Library ★ 142JavaLGPL-2.1Updated Nov 2026 calendarsdaf-yomidawnduskhebrew-calendar View on GitHub GitHub Repository BehindTheMath/KosherZmanim Port of the KosherJava zmanim library to TypeScript ★ 46TypeScriptLGPL-2.1Updated Jul 2026 daf-yomihebrew-calendarhebrew-datejewish-holidayskosher-zmanim View on GitHub GitHub Repository simlist/pyluach A Python package for manipulating Hebrew (Jewish) calendar dates and Hebrew-Gregorian conversion. ★ 72PythonUpdated Oct 2026 calendarhebrew-calendarhebrew-datejewishjewish-calendar View on GitHub

MCP Servers (Model Context Protocol)

Hebcal MCP — Hebrew calendar and zmanim calculations via MCP
Otzaria MCP Server — Makes the Jewish library accessible to LLMs with full-text search
Sefer Graph — Torah citation knowledge graph with 1.9M+ citations via MCP
Zmanim MCP Server — MCP server for calculating Jewish prayer times for any location

GitHub Repository hebcal/hebcal-mcp Model Context Protocol extension for Hebrew calendar ★ 6TypeScriptBSD-2-ClauseUpdated Sept 2026 View on GitHub GitHub Repository Sivan22/mcp-otzaria-server makes the jewish library accessible to LLMs through the MCP protocol ★ 23PythonMITUpdated Apr 2025 aijudaismllm View on GitHub GitHub Repository mordechaipotash/sefer-graph View on GitHub GitHub Repository ariroffe72/zmanim-mcp-server A comprehensive MCP server for calculating Jewish prayer times (zmanim). ★ 2PythonMITUpdated May 2026 judaism View on GitHub

Jewish Texts and Study Tools

Otzaria — A modern app that brings the Jewish library to every device
Sefaria Project — Open source platform for Jewish texts with extensive API
Parsha Map — Interactive Torah portions on an ancient Near East map with historical context

GitHub Repository Sivan22/otzaria A modern app that brings the jewish library to every device ★ 208DartUnlicenseUpdated Aug 2026 e-booksflutterjudaismtorah View on GitHub GitHub Repository Sefaria/Sefaria-Project New Interfaces for Jewish Texts ★ 771PythonGPL-3.0Updated Nov 2026 jewishtalmudtorah View on GitHub GitHub Repository myrondoesnotcode/parsha-map Interactive Parsha Map — Torah portions on an ancient Near East map with historical context, territory overlays, and timeline TypeScriptUpdated Oct 2026 View on GitHub

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
Shabbat Card — Animated Shabbat/Yom Tov status card for Home Assistant with sun-driven sky and melting candle

GitHub Repository rt400/Jewish-Sabbaths-Holidays Jewish Shabbat Yomtov and Holidays times and event ★ 17PythonUpdated Jun 2025 hacsholidaysjewishsensorshabbat View on GitHub GitHub Repository adriangith/shabbat-card Animated Shabbat/Yom Tov status card for Home Assistant with sun-driven sky, melting candle, and progress tracking JavaScriptMITUpdated May 2026 View on GitHub

Shabbat Tools

Pause for Shabbat — Auto-sets Outlook email autoresponder for Shabbat
Shabbat Blocker — JavaScript file that blocks usage on Shabbat
Shabbat Timetable — Universal Shabbat prayer timetable generator using Hebcal API

GitHub Repository mikekilcoyne/pause_for_shabbat Sets up an email autoresponder (for Outlook, soon Gmail) to setup automatically for Shabbat. JavaScriptUpdated Sept 2026 View on GitHub GitHub Repository MOSHHHHHH/Shabbat-blocker A simple JavaScript file that blocks usage on Saturday (Friday at 8:00 PM to Saturday at 5:00 PM) ★ 1JavaScriptGPL-3.0Updated Apr 2026 View on GitHub GitHub Repository Israel-Kli/shabbat-timetable Universal Shabbat prayer timetable generator - auto-fetches candle lighting, zmanim, parasha and Hebrew dates from Hebcal API. Optimized for A4 printing. ★ 1HTMLUpdated Oct 2026 View on GitHub

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

Hugging Face Dataset Sefaria/english_library Export of Sefaria's English library data. This data represents over version in the library marked as English. ↓ 38♥ 2GPL-3.0Updated Nov 2023 View dataset on Hugging Face Hugging Face Dataset Sefaria/hebrew_library Export of Sefaria's Hebrew library data. This data represents over version in the library marked as Hebrew. ↓ 250♥ 3GPL-3.0Updated Nov 2023 View dataset 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.