We built TorahSages as a free, open Torah reference library — one place to learn who the great Torah sages were, to read the classic texts in their original Hebrew, and to study them as they were meant to be learned. TorahSages is a place you can visit every day, whether at home or on the go, for easy online access to the core texts. Our goal is to make learning online easy, as if you had the printed daf in front of you.
Welcome to our online library. As a seasoned developer, and matmid of the beit midrash, I had the idea to build this website for those of you who want to combine our online lives with our need for Torah. I often find myself needing to learn with my chavrusa while on the go via zoom. It’s not easy to shlep a Tur, Shulchan Aruch, Mishna Berurah, and Masechtot of Gemara with you. For the sake of consistency, we are using the “Taf” universally. Mishnayot, not mishnayos. Not picking the winner, just trying to stay singular in approach.
We are not an exhaustive compilation website of all Hebrew texts! We focused on the “heavy hitters”, Mishna, Talmud, Halacha, Musar. We tried to make the user experience as intuitive and helpful as possible. If you can think of a better way to present the texts, please drop me a line at [email protected]
In addition to our select Library section, you’ll find an extensive Sages section which contains bios on over 1,700 entries in a biographical encyclopedia spanning the generations — from the Shoftim, Neviim, Anshe Knesset Hagedolah, and Zugot, through the Tannaim and Amoraim, Savoraim, and then to the Geonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim, down to the contemporary rabbinic leaders of our own era. Most of the sage bios are presented with their dates, places, teachers, students, and the works they authored — and cross-linked to every place their name appears across our library. We’re working on filling in the entire sages library in the coming weeks.
If all that wasn’t enough, we’re also building a Shiurim section that contains Torah lessons (shiurim) on select rabbis and unique historical perspectives from the gemara. The shiurim are written by Orthodox Torah observant Jews and are meant to fill in the gaps of our historical perspective of the Talmud.
As the site grows, and we hear valuable feedback from our online TorahSages community, we will add new features and library texts. Please feel free to contact us with your suggestions for additions and improvements [email protected]
Likewise, if you’d like to contribute to the cause (servers aren’t cheap…), please drop us a line.
Our aim is simple: to make the sources of Torah — and the lives of those who transmitted them — accessible, accurate, and beautifully readable, on any device, without barriers.
The Hebrew texts are drawn from public-domain and openly-licensed editions. Thanks to Sefaria, Wikisource, and the other open sources that make them freely available — each text carries its own source and attribution (a few use Creative Commons licenses where a public-domain edition wasn’t available).
The heavy lifting of building this library — ingesting, structuring, and cross-linking tens of thousands of pages — was done with AI agentic workers by feeding them PD source texts. The sacred texts themselves are faithful, unaltered public-domain editions; the AI built the plumbing, not the Torah. It’s the most exciting development in programming since the first PC, and here it is, serving up geshmak Jewish texts. Kosher vibing to the max. Enjoy!