About Torah Sages

We built TorahSages as a free, open Torah reference library — one place to learn who the great Torah sages are, to read the classic texts in their original Hebrew, and to study them as they were meant to be learned. We’ve included a full weekday siddur for Ashkenaz, Sefard, and Eidot Mizrach, and a fully functional Jewish calendar (luach zmanim) with daily times according to your location, and every location worldwide.  

Everything on the site is integrated – for example, on the luach zmanim, you’ll see the selected day’s Daf Yomi, with a link to the text from Talmud Bavli for that day, in our library.

 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. The founders of this website are Orthodox (frum) Jews. TorahSages includes Torah texts exclusively from the Orthodox canon. All are welcome to use and enjoy TorahSages. Please contact us if you have any suggestions.

Torah Library –

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, Mishnah 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.

Learn on the Go! Open up the Shulchan Aruch for example, and you’ll see the inline bookmarks to all the main “Nosey Keilim” and commentaries that you need.   It’s all at your fingertips, and laid out with intention, to be easy to learn online the way you are used to with tactile alternatives.

We are not an exhaustive compilation website of all Hebrew texts! We focused on the “heavy hitters”, Mishnah, 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, or of essential texts that you’d really like to see in our library, please drop me a line at [email protected]

Sages – Chaz”al –

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.

Luach Zmanim (Jewish Daily Times Calendar) –

TorahSages includes a fully functional daily times Jewish calendar.  You can choose your current location, or any location worldwide – for example, when is shkiyah in the city I’ll be traveling to in three days.  All the times listed are based on the latitude and longitude of the requested city.  Some of the times include an explanation, where necessary – “Sof Zman Shema – MGA” is the Kriyat Shema time according to the Magen Avraham, etc… 

Siddur –

Another very useful feature on TorahSages, is the weekday Siddur.  We’ve included three nusachim (Ashkenaz, Sefard, and Eidot Mizrach), with more Be”H coming soon.  The Siddur includes customizable settings, such as font size, night reading mode, and more.  Our Siddur is location sensitive, and suggests the next tefillah (prayer) based on the time of day and week.

There is a companion “Learn to Daven” section, which follows the same approach as our leining tools.  An experienced ba’al tefilah (chazzan) shows by example, the correct nusach and tunes for popular tefillot and zemirot.  We’ve also included our karaoke tool, so you can follow along with the text, while listening to the davening recordings.  More davening instruction will be included soon.

Parshat Hashavua–

TorahSages includes a parsha section that contains divrei Torah on the weekly Torah portion.  The divrei Torah include interactive links to the gemarot and rabbis who are referenced.  Our divrei Torah are written by Orthodox Torah observant Jews (תלמידי חכמים נאמנים).

Leining –

Leining — the public reading of the Torah with its ta’amim — is a skill kept alive one Baal Koreh at a time. TorahSages makes learning and reviewing it easier: the fully pointed text (with karaoke, pasuk by pasuk) and a clear recording in one place, free, on any device. We’re beginning with a single standard Ashkenaz trop and the weekly parsha cycle. Every parsha already has its recordings — with the rest of the haftarot being added parsha by parsha — and all of it, text and audio, is free to use, with or without an account.

We’ll be adding other nuschaot over time, along with other cool features to make it even easier to become a first-class Baal Koreh!

Try out our Leining section, or read about how the practice tool works.

Recently Added

On the homepage, you’ll find a “Recently Added” section, that is continuously updated with new content as it’s added to our website.   You can also visit our What’s New page for a comprehensive list of new additions to the site. 

Note From the Founder

I’m Moshe Teren. I spent thirty years in high-tech, as a developer, systems and business analyst, product manager, and eventually as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), while striving to learn Torah for part of each day — Tur and Shulchan Aruch, and Gemara Daf Yomi. I’ve also been a baal koreh (Torah leiner) for over thirty years, in multiple shuls, first in Chicago and then in Israel.

I built TorahSages because I believe learning and leining should be enjoyable — and a lot less complicated than it often is. We will use the best technology available to help everyone reach their highest Torah levels: from a bar-mitzvah boy learning his parsha for the first time, to a retired professional who always wanted to learn and finally has the chance.

There’s already a great deal here to use and enjoy, and we have many more features planned. In many ways, the best is yet to come. The heavy lifting of building this library — ingesting, structuring, and cross-linking tens of thousands of pages is a lot of work. 

If TorahSages has been useful to you, please consider contributing to our growing production and server costs — it helps keep the Torah free and the recordings coming.

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.

Contact Us –

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]

The Hebrew texts are drawn from public-domain and openly-licensed editions. Each text carries its own source and attribution (a few use Creative Commons licenses where a public-domain edition wasn’t available).

Our English summaries and translations are TorahSages staff-edited, by frum observant Jews.  These English texts, unless otherwise attributed, are the intellectual property of TorahSages and copyrighted.

All the Best, 

TorahSages Team