There is not a single blade of grass below that does not have a constellation in the heavens that strikes it and says to it: Grow!
Rabbi Simon · Bereshit Rabbah 10:6
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Self-paced courses you can take on a computer, tablet or phone. Your progress is saved on the device you use.
To listen means putting down the assumption that I already know. To listen means believing that there is still something I need to learn — even from someone I disagree with. Especially from someone I disagree with.
36 short lessons · 5–8 minutes each · Genesis 1–3
Read pointed Hebrew aloud, recognize it in print, handwriting and Torah lettering, and understand enough of its structure to help a child learn — with the first chapters of Genesis as your text from the first day. Built for religious-school teachers and any adult who wants to read.
Open the coursePronunciation, meanings and trope · flashcards and quizzes · two new portions each week
Type the verses you are reading, like Genesis 4:6–9, or choose a parashah and aliyah. You get the text with and without vowels and trope, in Torah-scroll lettering, and beside a tikkun — with every word’s pronunciation and meaning, flashcards, a quiz and a packet to print.
Open the guide63 terms · flashcards, quizzes and a searchable list · password required
The vocabulary of Jewish law — its texts, codes, people and periods, and core concepts like l’chat’chilah and b’di’avad — with Hebrew, transliteration and meaning for each term.
Open the termsTorah study on your own · begins with Cain and Abel, six encounters · password required
A journey through the first book of the Torah: relationships, responsibility, and the human condition. Read each story closely in Hebrew and English, hear voices from Jewish tradition, and answer for yourself, with the teacher’s notes there when you want them and every source linked to Sefaria.
Open the courseDaily and Shabbat liturgy · siddur text, vocabulary, readings and halakhah · password required
How the daily and Shabbat prayers came to be, what their words say, and how to pray them — the Ashkenazi siddur in Hebrew, transliteration and English, with the scholarship behind each prayer and Peninei Halakha on its laws.
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