Sources and licenses

Open texts, credited where they're shown

Chavruti uses openly licensed material only. Each text records its license and its attribution, and both appear wherever the text appears: in the app, in what your assistant receives, and on this site.

Westminster Leningrad Codex, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb)

License: WLC text: Public Domain. OSHB lemma and morphology: CC BY 4.0

All 39 books of Tanakh: the vocalized text with te’amim, and every word with its lemma and morphology.

Attribution: Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Lemma and morphology: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb (CC BY 4.0).

OSHB HebrewLexicon

License: Files: CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong’s text: public domain

The dictionary entry for every lemma the Tanakh uses: headword, gloss, definition, part of speech and root.

Attribution: Lexicon: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0); Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong’s text public domain.

JPS 1917, via Sefaria

License: Public Domain

The English translation of Tanakh, verse by verse.

Attribution: The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation (JPS 1917), via Sefaria (https://www.sefaria.org); source: http://opensiddur.org/2010/08/%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%B4%D7%9A-the-holy-scriptures-a-new-translation-jps-1917/. License: Public Domain.

Mishnah, Torat Emet, via Sefaria

License: Public Domain

All 63 tractates, vocalized, with every word indexed.

Attribution: Torat Emet 357, via Sefaria (https://www.sefaria.org); source: http://www.toratemetfreeware.com/index.html?downloads. License: Public Domain.

Mishnah, Kaufmann manuscript, edited by Dan Be’eri, via Sefaria

License: Public Domain (as listed by Sefaria)

The vocalized text of the Kaufmann manuscript, with its line breaks.

Attribution: Mishnah based on the Kaufmann manuscript, edited by Dan Be'eri, via Sefaria (https://www.sefaria.org); source: https://archive.org/details/MishnaCorrectedKaufman00WHOLE. License: Public Domain.

Mishnah, Romm Vilna 1913, via Sefaria

License: Public Domain

The unvocalized printed text.

Attribution: Mishnah, ed. Romm, Vilna 1913, via Sefaria (https://www.sefaria.org); source: https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH001741739. License: Public Domain.

Mishnah Yomit by Dr. Joshua Kulp, via Sefaria

License: CC BY

English translation of all 63 tractates.

Attribution: Mishnah Yomit by Dr. Joshua Kulp, via Sefaria (https://www.sefaria.org); source: http://learn.conservativeyeshiva.org/mishnah/. License: CC-BY.

Open Mishnah, via Sefaria

License: CC BY-SA

English translation of 24 tractates. Share-alike applies to works derived from this text.

Attribution: Open Mishnah, via Sefaria (https://www.sefaria.org); source: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mishnah. License: CC-BY-SA.

Rashi on the Torah: Rosenbaum and Silbermann, 1929-1934, via Sefaria

License: Public Domain

Rashi on all five books, vocalized Hebrew and English, comment by comment.

Attribution: Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934, via Sefaria (https://www.sefaria.org); source: https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH001969084. License: Public Domain.

The Metsudah Siddur, via Sefaria

License: CC BY

The siddur, nusach Ashkenaz: weekday and Shabbat prayers, vocalized Hebrew and English.

Attribution: The Metsudah Siddur, Hebrew text and English translation by Rabbi Avrohom Davis (Metsudah Publications, 1981), via Sefaria (https://www.sefaria.org); source: https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH002211687. License: CC-BY.

Daat Siddur Ashkenaz, via Sefaria

License: Public Domain

Hebrew for the prayers the Metsudah edition on Sefaria lacks, mainly Shabbat morning, Musaf and Havdalah.

Attribution: Daat Siddur Ashkenaz, via Sefaria (https://www.sefaria.org); source: http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/sidurim/tohen3.htm. License: Public Domain.

Sefaria Community Translation (siddur)

License: CC0

English for some of the Daat, Torat Emet and Shaliehsaboo prayers (all three nusachim), where it lines up paragraph by paragraph.

Attribution: Sefaria Community Translation, via Sefaria (https://www.sefaria.org). License: CC0.

The Metsudah Siddur, nusach Sefard, via Sefaria

License: CC BY

The siddur, nusach Sefard: weekday and Shabbat prayers, vocalized Hebrew and English.

Attribution: The Metsudah Siddur, Hebrew text and English translation by Rabbi Avrohom Davis (Metsudah Publications, 1981), Siddur Sefard, via Sefaria (https://www.sefaria.org); source: https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH002211687. License: CC-BY.

Torat Emet 357 (Siddur Sefard and Siddur Edot HaMizrach), via Sefaria

License: Public Domain

Vocalized Hebrew: the Edot HaMizrach siddur, and Sefard prayers the Metsudah edition on Sefaria lacks.

Attribution: Torat Emet 357, via Sefaria (https://www.sefaria.org); source: http://www.toratemetfreeware.com/index.html?downloads. License: Public Domain.

Siddur Edot HaMizrach, Shaliehsaboo Edition, via Sefaria

License: CC0

Vocalized Hebrew for Edot HaMizrach prayers where it lines up with the English and Torat Emet does not.

Attribution: Shaliehsaboo Edition, Siddur Edot HaMizrach, via Sefaria (https://www.sefaria.org). License: CC0.

Talmud Bavli, Wikisource edition, via Sefaria

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

All 37 tractates of the Babylonian Talmud, by amud (unvocalized). Our word-level data for it is shared under the same license: see Open data.

Attribution: Talmud Bavli, Wikisource edition (he.wikisource.org/wiki/תלמוד_בבלי, by the volunteers of Hebrew Wikisource), via Sefaria (https://www.sefaria.org). License: CC BY-SA 4.0.

Tractate Berakot, translated by A. Cohen, 1921, via Sefaria

License: Public Domain

English for Tractate Berakhot.

Attribution: Tractate Berakot by A. Cohen, Cambridge University Press, 1921, via Sefaria (https://www.sefaria.org); source: https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH002182132. License: Public Domain.

English Wiktionary, via kaikki.org (wiktextract)

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 and GFDL (dual)

Definitions, roots, IPA and romanizations for Hebrew words, modern and classical. Share-alike applies to the definitions.

Attribution: Definitions from Wiktionary (en.wiktionary.org), CC BY-SA 4.0, extracted by wiktextract/kaikki.org (Tatu Ylonen).

FrequencyWords by Hermit Dave

License: Code: MIT. Content: CC BY-SA 4.0

How common each word is in modern Hebrew, from OpenSubtitles 2018. Used to order the first words a learner meets.

Attribution: Word frequency: FrequencyWords by Hermit Dave (github.com/hermitdave/FrequencyWords), from OpenSubtitles 2018, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What we leave out, and why

  • Non-commercial licenses. Chavruti is a paid service, so text under a non-commercial license (for example the William Davidson Talmud's English, CC BY-NC) isn't loaded. That's why the Talmud is the unvocalized Wikisource edition rather than the William Davidson one.
  • Unknown licenses. If a version's license isn't stated, we don't use it.
  • Mislabeled versions. Some translations labeled as English are in other languages; we skip those.

Share-alike

The Open Mishnah translation, the Wiktionary definitions, the frequency list and the Wikisource Talmud are CC BY-SA. Anything derived from them is shared under the same license. Our word-level data for the Talmud is published on the Open data page.

Our own work

The pronunciation readings, the method and the learner tools are Chavruti's own work. A reader who finds an error in a text or a reading can write to support@chavruti.ai, and we'll fix it once, in the data, for everyone.

With thanks to the people behind every project listed here, and to Sefaria for making openly licensed texts easy to find.