Sefaria Official MCP

Features

• Access to Sefaria's complete Jewish library including Torah, Talmud, Midrash, Halakha, and more
• English semantic search to find conceptually related passages even without exact keyword matches
• Full-text search in Hebrew and Aramaic with category and book-level filtering
• Real-time Jewish calendar data: Hebrew date, weekly parasha, holidays, and observances
• Access to historical manuscript images and metadata for scholarly research
• Search across major Jewish dictionaries: Jastrow, Klein, and BDB

Tools(15)

• get_text

  Retrieve Jewish texts by reference (e.g., Genesis 1:1, Berakhot 2a) with optional language selection

• text_search

  Search across the entire Jewish library for passages containing specific terms, with optional category filters

• get_current_calendar

  Get current Jewish calendar information including Hebrew date, parasha, holidays, and more

• english_semantic_search

  Semantic similarity search on English text embeddings to find conceptually related passages

• get_links_between_texts

  Find all cross-references and connections to a specific text passage

• search_in_book

  Search for content within one specific book or text work

• search_in_dictionaries

  Search within Jewish reference dictionaries (Jastrow, Klein, BDB)

• get_english_translations

  Retrieve all available English translations for a specific text reference

• get_topic_details

  Retrieve detailed information about topics in Jewish thought, with optional related links and text references

• clarify_name_argument

  Autocomplete and validate text names, book titles, references, topic slugs, author names, and categories

• clarify_search_path_filter

  Convert a book name into a proper search filter path for scoped searches

• get_text_or_category_shape

  Explore the hierarchical structure and organization of texts or categories

• get_text_catalogue_info

  Get bibliographic and structural information (index) for a text or work

• get_available_manuscripts

  Access historical manuscript metadata and image URLs for text passages

• get_manuscript_image

  Download and process specific manuscript images from a given URL

Data Sources(3)

• Sefaria API

  The complete Sefaria Jewish library with texts, translations, commentaries, and metadata

• Sefaria AI

  Sefaria's AI service providing English semantic embeddings for similarity search

• Sefaria Manuscripts

  Historical manuscript images and metadata for primary source research

Try These Queries

Show me the text of Genesis 1:1 with all available English translations

Search for discussions about repentance (teshuva) in the Babylonian Talmud

What is the current parasha and Hebrew date?

Find all intertextual connections to Leviticus 19:18 (Love your neighbor)

Look up the Aramaic term sugya in the Jastrow dictionary

Setup Requirements

Known Limitations

• Semantic search works only with English queries; Hebrew/Aramaic search is limited to keyword matching
• English text search can be hit-or-miss due to translation variations across versions
• Manuscript images are capped at 1MB per image
• Full semantic search is only available through the official Sefaria MCP server endpoint