What is Sefaria?
Sefaria is a free, open-access digital library of Jewish texts — the Torah, Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash, commentaries, and much more — with original Hebrew/Aramaic, English translations, and interconnections between sources. It has made the foundational texts of Judaism freely available to anyone, anywhere, online. It's an extraordinary reference library: it puts the sources at your fingertips.
What can you do with Sefaria?
- Read primary Jewish texts in the original and in translation, side by side.
- Jump between a verse and the commentaries that discuss it via linked sources.
- Access the library free, with no account required, on the web or via its apps.
For anyone learning Jewish texts, Sefaria is the source of truth that the whole ecosystem — Derekh Learning included — links back to.
Sefaria vs. a guided learning app — what's the difference?
Sefaria is a library; it hands you the text. It's silent, by design, on what to do with it — which page to learn today, what the page means, or how to build a habit. A guided learning practice picks up where the library stops: it tells you what to learn, explains it at your level, and keeps you coming back. The two are complementary — the library and the guide.
This is exactly how Derekh Learning uses Sefaria: it builds on Sefaria's open texts to prepare each day's lesson and to ground its cited chevruta in real sources, so every answer points back to the text you can verify. (More on that: What is a chevruta?)
In short: Sefaria is the free, open library of Jewish texts. Derekh Learning is the guided daily practice built on top of it — text plus teacher.
Learn with sources you can trust
Derekh turns the open library into a daily, explained practice — and cites its sources so you can always check the text. Start learning or read how to start learning Talmud.
