xyz.kolsgo.torah/torah-library

Tools

• browse_library

  Browse the library's table of contents by category. With no path: top-level categories (Tanakh, Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash, Halakhah, Kabbalah, Liturgy, Jewish Thought, Tosefta, Chasidut, Musar, Responsa, Second Temple, Reference). With a path like "Talmud/Bavli/Seder Moed" or "Halakhah/Shulchan Arukh": that category's description, subcategories and books.

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• check_sheet_modified

  Check whether a source sheet has been modified since a timestamp (ISO date/time).

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• convert_date

  Convert between Gregorian and Hebrew (Jewish) calendar dates. - Gregorian → Hebrew: pass gregorian_date (YYYY-MM-DD). Add end_date to convert a whole range (max ~180 days). - Hebrew → Gregorian: pass hebrew_year, hebrew_month, hebrew_day. Set after_sunset=true when the Gregorian time is after sunset (the Hebrew date advances at nightfall). Returns the Hebrew date in English and Hebrew letters plus any holidays/events on that day.

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• dictionary_autocomplete

  Autocomplete a partial Hebrew/Aramaic word against a dictionary ("Jastrow Dictionary", "Klein Dictionary", "BDB Augmented Strong").

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• dictionary_lookup

  Look up a Hebrew or Aramaic word in classic dictionaries (Jastrow, BDB, Klein, and others). Handles prefixes/inflected forms. Pass context_ref to disambiguate using the passage where the word appears.

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• find_location

  Search for a city/place by name and get place ids, country and region. Use the returned id as the "location" argument of other tools when a city name is ambiguous.

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• find_references_in_text

  Scan free text (a dvar Torah, article, shiur notes) and detect every citation of a Jewish source in it (e.g. "Genesis 1:1", "Berakhot 2a", "Rambam Hilchot Shabbat 1:1"). Returns the matched spans and their canonical references.

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• get_author_works

  List the books written by an author. Pass the author slug (e.g. "rashi", "rambam", "ramban", "ibn-ezra", "rabbi-yosef-karo") — find slugs with resolve_name type AuthorTopic.

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• get_book_info

  Metadata for a book: author(s), era, composition date and place, description, categories, alternative titles, section structure (e.g. Chapter/Verse, Daf/Line), chapter lengths, and alternate structures (e.g. parshiyot for Torah books). Optionally text availability counts.

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• get_book_raw_index

  Full, unabridged index record for a book (complete schema tree, match templates, alternate structures). Use get_book_info for a friendly summary.

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• get_collections

  Browse collections of source sheets: pass slug for one collection (with its sheets), user_id for a user's collections, or neither to list public collections (filterable by name).

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• get_commentaries

  Get commentaries and other sources connected to a passage. - With commentator (e.g. "Rashi", "Ramban", "Ibn Ezra", "Sforno", "Tosafot", "Or HaChaim", "Onkelos", "Kli Yakar"): returns that commentator's full text on the passage. - Without commentator: lists all connected sources in a category ("Commentary" by default; also Targum, Midrash, Talmud, Halakhah, Chasidut, Kabbalah, Musar, Jewish Thought, Liturgy, Responsa, Quoting Commentary, …) grouped by work, optionally with text. Works for Tanakh, Talmud, Mishnah, Rambam, Shulchan Arukh, etc.

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• get_jewish_calendar

  List Jewish calendar events for a date range: holidays (major, minor, modern Israeli), Rosh Chodesh, fast days, special Shabbatot, weekly parsha, Omer count, molad, Yizkor, Yom Kippur Katan, daily-learning cycles (Daf Yomi, Mishna Yomi, Nach Yomi, Tanakh Yomi, Yerushalmi, Rambam, Chofetz Chaim), and — when a location is given — candle-lighting, havdalah and fast start/end times. Pick either start+end, or year (+ optional month). Max range ~1 year. Defaults include holidays, Rosh Chodesh, fasts, special Shabbatot and parsha.

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• get_learning_schedules

  Today's (or any date's) study schedule items with exact references: Parashat HaShavua, Haftarah, Daf Yomi, 929, Daily Mishnah, Daily Rambam (1 and 3 chapters), Daf a Week, Halakhah Yomit, Arukh HaShulchan Yomi, Tanakh Yomi, Chok LeYisrael, Tanya Yomi, Yerushalmi Yomi, and more.

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• get_library_statistics

  Statistics: - kind "word_count": number of words in a specific version of a book (needs title, version_title, language he/en). - kind "links_between_categories": how many links connect two categories (e.g. Tanakh ↔ Talmud). - kind "text_availability": raw availability counts for a book.

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• get_manuscripts

  Images of manuscripts and early printed editions (e.g. Vilna Shas, Venice 1523, Munich manuscript) for a passage, with image and thumbnail URLs.

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• get_parasha

  Details for a weekly Torah portion by name (e.g. "Noach", "Lech Lecha", "Ki Tisa"): full reference, aliyot, haftarah, and the next date it will be read.

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• get_passage_context

  Given one or more segment references (e.g. "Berakhot 2a:1"), return the full logical passage/sugya each belongs to.

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• get_random_source_by_topic

  Get a random source together with the topic it illustrates — handy for a daily inspiration or quiz.

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• get_random_text

  Get a random passage, optionally limited to specific books or categories (e.g. categories ["Tanakh"], titles ["Psalms", "Proverbs"]).

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• get_related_content

  Overview of everything connected to a passage: counts of linked sources by category and book, related topics, source sheets that use it, manuscript images, and related web articles. Use it to explore before drilling in with get_commentaries.

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• get_seasonal_topic

  Get the curated topic for the current parsha (kind "parasha") or the current/upcoming holiday (kind "holiday"), with description and key sources.

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• get_shabbat_times

  Candle-lighting and havdalah times for the coming (or a specified) Shabbat and any Yom Tov that week, plus the parsha and holiday Torah readings, for a location.

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• get_sheet_tags

  Source-sheet tags: "trending" (this week's trending tags), "all" (every tag, sorted by count or alphabetically), or a specific user's tags.

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• get_source_sheet

  Get a user-made source sheet by id: title, author, tags, and each source (reference + text) and commentary block in order. Pass several ids to fetch up to 10 sheets.

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• get_task_status

  Check the status/result of a background task (e.g. a long reference-detection job) by task_id.

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• get_term

  Look up a named term (parsha names, section names, holidays, etc.) with its Hebrew and English titles and alternate spellings, e.g. "Noach", "Bereshit", "Perek".

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• get_text

  Fetch any text from the Jewish library by reference, in Hebrew/Aramaic and/or translation, aligned segment by segment. Covers Tanakh, Mishnah, Talmud Bavli & Yerushalmi, Midrash, Rambam, Shulchan Arukh, commentaries (e.g. "Rashi on Genesis 1:1"), Siddur, Zohar, Chasidut, Musar, responsa and more. Reference examples: "Genesis 1:1-5", "Bereishit 1", "Berakhot 2a", "Berakhot 2a:3-7", "Mishnah Avot 1", "Mishneh Torah, Sabbath 1:1", "Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 1", "Psalms 23", "Ramban on Exodus 20:2". Returns segments as {n, he, en}; includes next/previous section refs for paging. If a reference fails, try resolve_name.

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• get_text_image

  Generate a shareable image (PNG) of a short passage, sized for a social platform.

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• get_text_versions

  List every available edition and translation of a book (language, version title, license, source). Use a version_title with get_text to read a specific translation.

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• get_texts_bulk

  Fetch many short references in one call (e.g. a list of verses or commentary lines). Returns Hebrew and English for each. Up to 30 references.

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• get_topic

  Get a curated topic — a person (e.g. "moses", "rambam", "rabbi-akiva"), concept ("teshuvah", "kindness"), holiday ("passover"), mitzvah or object — with its description and its top sources, ordered by importance. Use resolve_name (type "Topic") or search_topics to find slugs.

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• get_topic_graph

  Get the network of topics connected to a topic (e.g. students/teachers of a sage, parts of a concept). Optionally restrict to one link type such as "is-a", "has-student", "has-teacher", "related-to", "part-of".

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• get_torah_reading

  Torah and Haftarah readings for a date or date range: parsha or holiday name, each aliyah with verse ranges and counts, maftir, haftarah, and special readings. Supports Israel vs Diaspora and the triennial cycle.

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• get_user_profile

  Public profile of a library user/author of source sheets, by profile slug (e.g. "dovid-birk").

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• get_yahrzeit_dates

  Compute upcoming Gregorian dates for yahrzeits, Hebrew birthdays or Hebrew anniversaries from the original Gregorian date. Handles after-sunset, Adar in leap years, and Cheshvan/Kislev edge cases. Up to 10 entries at once.

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• get_zmanim

  Halachic times of day for a location and date (or date range, max ~7 days recommended): alot hashachar, misheyakir, sunrise (netz), latest Shema and Tefilla (GRA and Magen Avraham), chatzot, mincha gedola/ketana, plag hamincha, sunset (shkia), bein hashmashot, tzeit hakochavim (several opinions), and midnight.

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• holiday_sources

  For the next (or a named) Jewish holiday: its dates, a description, the Torah/Haftarah readings, and key classical sources with text. Examples: "Sukkot", "Chanukah", "Purim", "Pesach", "Shavuot", "Tisha B'Av", "Rosh Hashana".

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• list_book_titles

  Search the list of all books in the library by (part of) an English or Hebrew title, optionally within a category path. Returns canonical titles with their category.

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• list_source_sheets

  List public source sheets: - by passage (ref): sheets that use a given text; - by user (user_id): a user's sheets, sortable by "views" or "date", with paging; - latest: newest public sheets (no ref/user_id).

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• list_translations

  Without a language: list every language code that has translations in the library. With a language code (e.g. "fr", "es", "de", "ru", "yi", "lad"): list every book translated into that language with its version titles.

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• parse_reference

  Validate and normalize a text reference: canonical English and Hebrew forms, the book it belongs to, its structure, and previous/next sections.

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• parsha_study_pack

  Everything to study the weekly Torah portion: the reading (for a date, or by parsha name), aliyot and haftarah, the text of a chosen aliyah (Hebrew + English), a commentator's notes on its opening verses, and the parsha's topic and themes. Great for preparing a dvar Torah.

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• recommend_topics

  Recommend topics relevant to one or more passages (e.g. for tagging a source sheet or finding themes in a set of verses).

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• resolve_name

  Autocomplete and identify a book title, reference, author, topic or person from partial, misspelled, transliterated or Hebrew input ("bava metzia", "bereishis", "ברכות ב", "Rambam"). Tells you whether the input is a valid reference and gives canonical names.

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• search_library

  Full-text search across the entire Jewish library (texts), or across user-made source sheets. Hebrew or English queries. - exact=true matches the exact word forms; default matching is lemmatized (finds grammatical variants). - filters narrow by category/book path, e.g. ["Tanakh"], ["Talmud/Bavli"], ["Mishnah/Seder Moed"], ["Halakhah/Shulchan Arukh"], ["Tanakh/Torah/Genesis"]. - sort "relevance" or "chronological" (by composition date). Returns matching references with highlighted snippets, total hit count and a breakdown of hits by category (use it to refine filters). Paginate with offset.

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• search_topics

  List topics, optionally filtered by a word in the title. Without a filter returns the most prominent topics.

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• shabbat_briefing

  A ready-to-read Friday summary for a location: candle-lighting and havdalah times, the parsha with aliyot and haftarah, the opening verse of the parsha in Hebrew and English, and any holiday that week.

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• todays_learning

  One-call daily briefing: today's Hebrew date, holidays/events, the weekly parsha, and every daily learning schedule (Daf Yomi, Rambam, Mishnah, 929, Halakhah Yomit, Tanya, etc.) with exact references. Optionally include the opening lines of each study item.

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