Torah MCP

The Sefaria library inside Claude — Tanakh, Talmud, Mishneh Torah, Shulchan Arukh, responsa, and daily study calendars, served over the Model Context Protocol. Answers to halachic and textual questions get grounded in the actual sources — exact quotes, verifiable references, linked commentaries — instead of model memory.

Free, no account, no data collected. Hosted instance:

https://torah-mcp.jonathan-ef2.workers.dev/mcp

Install

claude.ai — Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste the URL above. Works on mobile too once added.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http torah https://torah-mcp.jonathan-ef2.workers.dev/mcp

Any MCP client — streamable HTTP transport at the same URL.

Related MCP server: Sefaria Jewish Library MCP Server

Tools

The server also ships an instructions block (loaded by MCP clients at initialize) telling the model to load the skill before answering any religious question, and an MCP prompt (/mcp__torah-mcp__hebrewbooks).

Deploy your own

Or manually:

npm install
npx wrangler deploy

No secrets required. Optional: set a BEARER_TOKENS secret (comma-separated list) to switch from public access to invitation-only — each guest then uses https://<your-worker>/<token>/mcp, and you revoke by removing a token.

Good-citizen notes

• Requests to Sefaria carry an identifying User-Agent and are edge-cached (24 h for texts and links, 1 h for calendars) so repeated study of the same daf costs Sefaria a single API call.

• A per-IP rate limit (60 req/min) protects the public endpoint.

• Text licenses are returned with every response. Data by the wonderful Sefaria — support them.

License

MIT — see LICENSE. The bundled study-method skill and this server are unaffiliated with Sefaria and hebrewbooks.org.