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 Transcription

• AI Evaluation & Development

• Custom GPTs

• APIs & Developer Resources

• Calendar & Zmanim Libraries

• Daily Learning

• Datasets

• Development Components

• Home Assistant & Smart Home

• Jewish Texts & Study Tools

• Kosher / Kashrut

• MCP Servers

• NLP & Text Analysis

• Shabbat Tools

• Weekly Parshah

• Resource Lists

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

• ChavrutAI — Web app making the Talmud more accessible through a digital interface

• Jewish AI Assistant System Prompts — System prompts for AI tools which may be useful for Jewish users

• Jude the Judaic ChatBot — Local AI Judaic study assistant using Sefaria corpus and Ollama, with Hebrew support and source linking

• Kol HaTorah — An AI chat that knows all of the Torah

• Kosher 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

• Rabbi 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

• Torah Study AI — AI study partner for Torah with real sources in every answer

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

AI Evaluation & Development

• Torah Eval — Open source evaluation framework for Torah questions

• Torah Production — Production version of Torah AI

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

Calendar & Zmanim Libraries

See also: Hebrew Calendar Resources for a dedicated list of Hebrew calendar tools.

• Hebcal — A perpetual Jewish calendar

• hebcal-es6 — Modern ES6 JavaScript library for Hebrew calendar calculations

• hebcal-go — A perpetual Jewish calendar (Go)

• Hebcal REST API — Jewish holidays and Hebrew calendar as RSS, CSV, FullCalendar.io objects, and more

• hdate-js — Converts between Hebrew and Gregorian dates using Rata Die algorithm

• Hebrew-Date-KDE-Widget — KDE Plasma widget displaying the current Hebrew date

• jewish-date — JavaScript library for Jewish/Hebrew date conversion

• jewish-zmanim — TypeScript library for calculating Jewish halachic times — sunrise, Shema, Mincha, Shabbat entry/exit, and more

• KosherJava Zmanim — Comprehensive Java library for calculating zmanim (halachic times)

• KosherZmanim — JavaScript/TypeScript library for calculating zmanim

• MMM-HebrewCalendar — MagicMirror module for displaying the Hebrew calendar

• myHebrewDates — Track and get reminders for Hebrew date anniversaries (yahrzeits, birthdays, etc.)

• py-libhdate — Python bindings for libhdate, providing Hebrew calendar and zmanim

• pyluach — Python library for Jewish calendar dates

• TorahCalc — Tools for biblical/Talmudic unit conversions, gematria, Hebrew calendar, and zmanim

Daily Learning

• Daf HaChaim — A unique visual Daf Yomi learning experience

• HaLomeid — Calm, offline-first app for maintaining a daily Torah learning habit through scheduled study units

• hebcal-learning — Daily learning schedules: Daf Yomi, Mishna Yomi, Nach Yomi, and more

• torah-dl — Library and tool for downloading media and content from Torah websites

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

Home Assistant & Smart Home

• Home Assistant Jewish Calendar — Official Home Assistant integration for Jewish calendar sensors

• HA-Shabbat-Dashboard — Home Assistant Shabbat Dashboard

• Home-Assistant-Shabbat-Yom-Tom — Home Assistant integration for Shabbat and Yom Tov

• Jewish-Sabbaths-Holidays — Home Assistant integration for Jewish Sabbaths and Holidays

• shabbat-card — Animated 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

Jewish Texts & Study Tools

• Gemara Navigator — Unified Gemara navigation throughout Shas of Sefaria, Torat Emet, Vilna Daf, and Dafyomi Kollel

• Otzaria — A modern app that brings the Jewish library to every device

• Parsha Map — Interactive Torah portions on an ancient Near East map with historical context and territory overlays

• Sefer Graph — Torah citation knowledge graph — 1.9M+ citations via MCP

• Sefaria Export — Exports of Sefaria texts and data for training and analysis

• Sefaria Mobile — Sefaria for iOS and Android

• Sefaria Project — New interfaces for Jewish texts — open source platform with extensive API

• Shnayim Mikra — שניים מקרא ואחד תרגום

Kosher / Kashrut

• KashrutMap — Map of kosher establishments

• mitzvot_api — API for mitzvot information

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

• Otzaria MCP Server — MCP server making the Jewish library accessible to LLMs with full-text search

• Sefer Graph — Torah citation knowledge graph — 1.9M+ citations via MCP

• Sefaria MCP Server (CharmingSteve) — MCP server for accessing Sefaria texts, commentaries, and learning schedules

• Sefaria MCP Server (Sivan22) — MCP server for accessing Sefaria texts

• Zmanim MCP Server — MCP server for calculating Jewish prayer times (zmanim) for any location

NLP & Text Analysis

• Talmud NLP Indexer — NLP system for programmatically indexing and tagging the Talmud with extensive gazetteers

Shabbat Tools

• hebcal-shabbat-email — Weekly Shabbat times email subscription management for hebcal.com

• Pause for Shabbat — Sets up an email autoresponder (Outlook) automatically for Shabbat

• Shabbat Blocker — JavaScript file that blocks usage on Shabbat

• Shabbat Timetable — Universal Shabbat prayer timetable generator — auto-fetches candle lighting, zmanim, parasha from Hebcal API

Weekly Parshah

• Parsha Map — Interactive Torah portions on an ancient Near East map with historical context and territory overlays

• Shnayim Mikra — שניים מקרא ואחד תרגום

Resource Lists

• awesome-jewish-github — Awesome list of Jewish-related GitHub projects

• awesome-torah — Curated list of projects related to Limud Torah and Kiyum Mitzvos

• Hebrew Calendar Resources — Curated list of Hebrew calendar tools, libraries, and APIs

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.