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Free study aids · built from primary sources

בֵּית הַמִּדְרָשׁ

Jewish learning
tools and resources

A small and growing collection of free visual study aids for Jewish texts. Each one is built to make the shape of a text visible, so you can see how it is put together and find your way around it before you sit down to learn it properly.

א׳ One resource is live today. More to follow. Every aid is built from the primary text itself and links back to the full source, so nothing here replaces the learning, it only opens the door to it.

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1 resource
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מִשְׁנֵה תּוֹרָה

The Fourteen Books of the Mishneh Torah

Rambam's complete code of Jewish law, laid out book by book. Open any of the 83 sets of laws to read, in his own words, how many commandments it contains and what they are, with links straight to the full text.

14 books 83 sets of laws 613 mitzvot Hebrew and English

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In preparation

More to followFurther tools and resources are being built. Each will follow the same approach: primary sources, clear structure, and a direct route back to the text itself.

How these are made

Every aid starts from the primary text rather than a summary of it. Structure, counts and quoted passages are taken from published editions of the sources and are checked against them; where a translation appears, it is made for this site rather than lifted from a modern copyrighted one. Each page names its sources and links out to the full text.

Where to study the full texts

These pages are maps, not substitutes. For the texts themselves, in Hebrew and in translation, see Sefaria and Mechon Mamre, both of which make the sources freely available.

About

A personal project, made freely available. If something here is wrong, it is worth fixing, and corrections are welcome.