Jewish & Torah Tech Projects
A curated collection of technological projects for Jewish religious life — AI tools, Hebrew calendar utilities, text study platforms, MCP servers, home automation, and more.
Disambiguation
This list focuses on projects specifically intended for religiously observant Jews, rather than general Israel/Israeli tech projects. Projects are included without regard to the specific type of Judaism practiced by, or envisioned by, the project maintainers.
Disclaimer: Inclusion in this list does not constitute an endorsement of any project, product, or service. This is a community resource list provided for informational purposes only. Users should evaluate each project independently before use.
Contents
AI Chatbots & Assistants
AI Torah — AI-powered Torah learning platform with personalized paths, interactive tutors, and multilingual access
Beit Midrash Online — Learning Torah with an AI partner
Avld536/beit-midrash-online View on GitHubChavrutAI — 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-humanitiessefariatalmudJewish AI Assistant System Prompts — System prompts for AI tools which may be useful for Jewish users
danielrosehill/Jewish-AI-Assistant-System-Prompts View on GitHubJude the Judaic ChatBot — Local AI Judaic study assistant using Sefaria corpus and Ollama, with Hebrew support and source linking
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.
Kol HaTorah — An AI chat that knows all of the Torah
damebrown/kol_hatorah View on GitHubKosher AI — AI assistant for Jewish life
KosherGPT — GPT-powered assistant for kosher and Jewish topics
Lashon Hara Chatbot — Prototype chat UI for lashon hara Q&A
danielrosehill/Lashon-Hara-Chatbot View on GitHubRabbi AI — AI-powered chatbot providing Jewish wisdom and Torah knowledge with verified source citations
Rabbina — AI-generated insights on Torah, Talmud, Kabbalah, and Jewish teachings
Rav Chat — AI assistant for Torah study
Rebbe.io — AI-powered rabbi providing Torah insights and halacha answers
ChatTorah — AI-powered Torah chat platform
Torah Chat — Mobile app with AI assistant for Jewish texts, calendar, and prayers
Torah Scholar — AI-powered Jewish text research — search Tanach, Talmud, and commentaries
abeperl/torah-scholar ★ 0AI-powered Jewish text research: Search Tanach, Talmud & commentaries instantly.
Torah Study AI — AI study partner for Torah with real sources in every answer
davalimi/torah-study-ai View on GitHub
AI Transcription
Sofer.ai — AI transcription service for shiurim with multilingual support (English, Hebrew, Aramaic, Yiddish)
soferai-openapi — OpenAPI specification for the Sofer.Ai API
SoferAi/soferai-openapi View on GitHub
AI Evaluation & Development
Torah Eval — Open source evaluation framework for Torah questions
SoferAi/toraheval View on GitHubTorah Production — Production version of Torah AI
Allly-Solutions/Torah-Production View on GitHub
Custom GPTs
Custom GPTs built on OpenAI's ChatGPT platform. Inclusion is not an endorsement.
Halacha Translator — GPT for translating halachic concepts
Kosher Kitchen — GPT for kosher cooking assistance
Shabbat Time Finder — GPT for finding Shabbat times
Yalkut Yosef Scholar — GPT for Yalkut Yosef halachic rulings
APIs & Developer Resources
Hebcal API — Jewish calendar API with holidays, zmanim, and more
Hebcal Developer APIs — Additional Hebcal developer resources and endpoints
Sefaria API — REST API for accessing Sefaria's library of Jewish texts
TorahCalc API — API for Torah-related calculations and conversions
Yafutzu Torah API — Free public API for daily Jewish learning — Chitas, Rambam, and Chassidut texts
Yafutzu/yafutzu-torah View on GitHub
Calendar & Zmanim Libraries
See also: Hebrew Calendar Resources for a dedicated list of Hebrew calendar tools.
Collection of open-source tools, libraries, APIs, and integrations for working with the Hebrew calendar
Hebcal — A perpetual Jewish calendar
hebcal/hebcal ★ 175A perpetual Jewish Calendar
calendarhebcalhebrew-calendarhebrew-datejewish-calendarhebcal-es6 — Modern ES6 JavaScript library for Hebrew calendar calculations
hebcal/hebcal-es6 ★ 121perpetual Jewish Calendar with holidays, Shabbat and holiday candle lighting and havdalah times, Torah readings, and more
calendardaf-yomihebrew-calendarhebrew-dateholidayshebcal-go — A perpetual Jewish calendar (Go)
hebcal/hebcal-go View on GitHubHebcal REST API — Jewish holidays and Hebrew calendar as RSS, CSV, FullCalendar.io objects, and more
hebcal/hebcal-rest-api ★ 18Jewish holidays and Hebrew calendar exports as RSS, CSV, and FullCalendar.io objects, and more
hdate-js — Converts between Hebrew and Gregorian dates using Rata Die algorithm
hebcal/hdate-js View on GitHubHebrew-Date-KDE-Widget — KDE Plasma widget displaying the current Hebrew date
danielrosehill/Hebrew-Date-KDE-Widget ★ 1WIP - KDE Plasmoid for displaying the Hebrew calendar date
jewish-date — JavaScript library for Jewish/Hebrew date conversion
Shmulik-Kravitz/jewish-date ★ 68Jewish Date is a fast and modern 2kB JavaScript library that provides a simple and efficient Gregorian-to-Hebrew and vice versa date converter.
browsercalendarconvertdatehdatejewish-zmanim — TypeScript library for calculating Jewish halachic times — sunrise, Shema, Mincha, Shabbat entry/exit, and more
Shmulik-Kravitz/jewish-zmanim View on GitHubKosherJava 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-holidaysnodejsMMM-HebrewCalendar — MagicMirror module for displaying the Hebrew calendar
neshkoli/MMM-HebrewCalendar ★ 2MagicMirror2 module allows you to view Hebrew calendar with your events in a monthly calendar view
myHebrewDates — Track and get reminders for Hebrew date anniversaries (yahrzeits, birthdays, etc.)
abe-101/myHebrewDates ★ 25Automatically sync recurring Hebrew calendar events, like birthdays and anniversaries, to your digital calendar
djangohebrewicalicalendaricspy-libhdate — Python bindings for libhdate, providing Hebrew calendar and zmanim
py-libhdate/py-libhdate ★ 40Python 3 library for Hebrew date and zmanim (times) objects in python
hebrew-calendarpython-librarypython27python3python3-librarypyluach — Python library for Jewish calendar dates
simlist/pyluach ★ 68A Python package for manipulating Hebrew (Jewish) calendar dates and Hebrew-Gregorian conversion.
calendarhebrew-calendarhebrew-datejewishjewish-calendarTorahCalc — Tools for biblical/Talmudic unit conversions, gematria, Hebrew calendar, and zmanim
torahcalc/torahcalc ★ 25New website and API for TorahCalc - Tools for Torah study
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Daily Learning
Daf HaChaim — A unique visual Daf Yomi learning experience
baraklandau/dafhachaim-new View on GitHubHaLomeid — Calm, offline-first app for maintaining a daily Torah learning habit through scheduled study units
orelzion/halomed View on GitHubhebcal-learning — Daily learning schedules: Daf Yomi, Mishna Yomi, Nach Yomi, and more
hebcal/hebcal-learning View on GitHubtorah-dl — Library and tool for downloading media and content from Torah websites
SoferAi/torah-dl View on GitHub
Datasets
Datasets for training and fine-tuning AI models on Jewish texts.
Sefaria English Library — Sefaria's English-language Jewish text library on Hugging Face
Sefaria Hebrew Library — Sefaria's Hebrew-language Jewish text library on Hugging Face
Development Components
react-jewish-datepicker — React component for Jewish date picker
Shmulik-Kravitz/react-jewish-datepicker View on GitHub
Home Assistant & Smart Home
Home Assistant Jewish Calendar — Official Home Assistant integration for Jewish calendar sensors
HA-Shabbat-Dashboard — Home Assistant Shabbat Dashboard
danielrosehill/HA-Shabbat-Dashboard-0125 ★ 1Simple designed Home Assistant dashboard for Shabbat / Yom Tov times
Home-Assistant-Shabbat-Yom-Tom — Home Assistant integration for Shabbat and Yom Tov
danielrosehill/Home-Assistant-Shabbat-Yom-Tom View on GitHubJewish-Sabbaths-Holidays — Home Assistant integration for Jewish Sabbaths and Holidays
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, melting candle, and progress tracking
adriangith/shabbat-card ★ 0Animated Shabbat/Yom Tov status card for Home Assistant with sun-driven sky, melting candle, and progress tracking
Awesome Israeli & Jewish Home Assistant — Curated list of Israeli/Jewish Home Assistant projects
danielrosehill/Awesome-Israeli-Jewish-Home-Assistant ★ 5Home automation projects that are relevant to people in Israel or Jews generally (e.g. Shabbat and zmanim time integrations)
Jewish Texts & Study Tools
Gemara Navigator — Unified Gemara navigation throughout Shas of Sefaria, Torat Emet, Vilna Daf, and Dafyomi Kollel
binyominzeev/gemara-navigator View on GitHubOtzaria — 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-booksflutterjudaismtorahParsha Map — Interactive Torah portions on an ancient Near East map with historical context and territory overlays
myrondoesnotcode/parsha-map ★ 0Interactive Parsha Map — Torah portions on an ancient Near East map with historical context, territory overlays, and timeline
Sefer Graph — Torah citation knowledge graph — 1.9M+ citations via MCP
mordechaipotash/sefer-graph View on GitHubSefaria Export — Exports of Sefaria texts and data for training and analysis
Sefaria/Sefaria-Export View on GitHubSefaria Mobile — Sefaria for iOS and Android
Sefaria/Sefaria-Mobile View on GitHubSefaria Project — New interfaces for Jewish texts — open source platform with extensive API
Sefaria/Sefaria-Project ★ 739New Interfaces for Jewish Texts
jewishtalmudtorahShnayim Mikra — שניים מקרא ואחד תרגום
meirlamdan/shnayim-mikra View on GitHub
Kosher / Kashrut
KashrutMap — Map of kosher establishments
uriel83/KashrutMap View on GitHubmitzvot_api — API for mitzvot information
caileighsmith/mitzvot_api View on GitHub
MCP Servers (Model Context Protocol)
MCP servers enable large language models to access Jewish texts, calendars, and religious data programmatically.
Hebcal MCP — Hebrew calendar and zmanim calculations via MCP
hebcal/hebcal-mcp ★ 5Model Context Protocol extension for Hebrew calendar
Otzaria MCP Server — MCP server making 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 — 1.9M+ citations via MCP
mordechaipotash/sefer-graph View on GitHubSefaria MCP Server (CharmingSteve) — MCP server for accessing Sefaria texts, commentaries, and learning schedules
CharmingSteve/mcp-sefaria-server View on GitHubSefaria MCP Server (Sivan22) — MCP server for accessing Sefaria texts
Sivan22/mcp-sefaria-server View on GitHubZmanim MCP Server — MCP server for calculating Jewish prayer times (zmanim) for any location
ariroffe72/zmanim-mcp-server ★ 1A comprehensive MCP server for calculating Jewish prayer times (zmanim).
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NLP & Text Analysis
Talmud NLP Indexer — NLP system for programmatically indexing and tagging the Talmud with extensive gazetteers
EzraBrand/talmud-nlp-indexer View on GitHub
Shabbat Tools
hebcal-shabbat-email — Weekly Shabbat times email subscription management for hebcal.com
hebcal/hebcal-shabbat-email View on GitHubPause for Shabbat — Sets up an email autoresponder (Outlook) automatically 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 — auto-fetches candle lighting, zmanim, parasha from 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.
Weekly Parshah
Parsha Map — Interactive Torah portions on an ancient Near East map with historical context and territory overlays
myrondoesnotcode/parsha-map ★ 0Interactive Parsha Map — Torah portions on an ancient Near East map with historical context, territory overlays, and timeline
Shnayim Mikra — שניים מקרא ואחד תרגום
meirlamdan/shnayim-mikra View on GitHub
Resource Lists
awesome-jewish-github — Awesome list of Jewish-related GitHub projects
binyamin/awesome-jewish-github View on GitHubawesome-torah — Curated list of projects related to Limud Torah and Kiyum Mitzvos
bandleader/awesome-torah View on GitHubHebrew Calendar Resources — Curated list of Hebrew calendar tools, libraries, and APIs
danielrosehill/hebrew-calendar-resources View on GitHub
Contributing
This is a non-exhaustive list and will be updated from time to time. If you know of a project that should be included here, feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.
License
This resource list is provided for informational purposes.