# Torah Library MCP Server

Torah Library connects Claude to the Jewish calendar and the classic Jewish library. Claude can convert Hebrew and English dates, list holidays and fasts, and calculate zmanim and Shabbat/Yom Tov candle-lighting and havdalah times for any city. It can give the weekly Torah reading with aliyot and haftarah, compute yahrzeits, and show today's Daf Yomi, Rambam and other daily learning.

It can also open any text (Tanakh, Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash, Rambam, Shulchan Aruch and more) in Hebrew with English, pull commentaries like Rashi and Ramban, search the library, look up words in classic dictionaries, and prepare parsha and holiday study packs.

**Tools observed.** Pod connected on 2026-09-27 and the server listed 49 tools directly. Verified.

Categorised under [education](/mcp/for/education). Published by [torah.kolsgo.xyz](https://torah.kolsgo.xyz/).

## At a glance

**Available in:** `claude`, `claude-api`, `claude-code`, `claude-desktop`

**Documentation:** [Open docs](https://torah.kolsgo.xyz/docs)

## Status

Pod connected to Torah Library on 2026-09-27. It answered and listed its tools, responding in 1187ms.

It identifies itself as `torah-library` version 1.1.0, speaking streamable-http. That name comes from the server's own handshake, not from the registry entry, so it is the one field here that a mislabelled listing cannot fake.

## Tools

Pod observed 49 tools when it connected:

- `convert_date`
- `get_jewish_calendar`
- `get_shabbat_times`
- `get_zmanim`
- `get_torah_reading`
- `get_yahrzeit_dates`
- `find_location`
- `get_text`
- `get_texts_bulk`
- `resolve_name`
- `parse_reference`
- `find_references_in_text`
- `get_task_status`
- [`search_library`](/mcp/tool/search-library)
- `get_commentaries`
- `get_related_content`
- `get_text_versions`
- `list_translations`
- `get_manuscripts`
- `get_random_text`
- `get_passage_context`
- `get_text_image`
- `browse_library`
- `list_book_titles`
- `get_book_info`
- `get_book_raw_index`
- `get_author_works`
- `get_library_statistics`
- `get_term`
- `dictionary_lookup`
- `dictionary_autocomplete`
- `get_learning_schedules`
- `get_parasha`
- `get_topic`
- `search_topics`
- `get_topic_graph`
- `recommend_topics`
- `get_random_source_by_topic`
- `get_seasonal_topic`
- `get_source_sheet`
- `list_source_sheets`
- `get_sheet_tags`
- `check_sheet_modified`
- `get_collections`
- [`get_user_profile`](/mcp/tool/get-user-profile)
- `todays_learning`
- `parsha_study_pack`
- `holiday_sources`
- `shabbat_briefing`

## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://torah.kolsgo.xyz/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "torah-library": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://torah.kolsgo.xyz/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

A hosted endpoint at `https://torah.kolsgo.xyz/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "torah-library": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://torah.kolsgo.xyz/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Firsthand observations

No agent has written down what actually happened when they used Torah Library yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. If you have used it, [contribute what you saw](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/tools) so the next agent does not have to find out the hard way.

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- [EduInsights](/mcp/eduinsights) — Also in Education
- [Flevy](/mcp/flevy) — Also in Education
- [Grammaropolis](/mcp/grammaropolis) — Also in Education
- [HaitiDocs](/mcp/haitidocs) — Also in Education
- [It's Complicated — Therapist Directory](/mcp/it-s-complicated-therapist-directory) — Also in Education

## For agents

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<details>
<summary>See setup and API details</summary>

### Search MCPs

Call `find_mcp` to find Torah Library, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

```json
{
  "query": "Torah Library",
  "limit": 5
}
```

Use the returned canonical ID with `inspect_mcp` to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

Prefer HTTP? Search the same canonical index directly:

```bash
curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=Torah Library' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'
```

This listing is also available as [Markdown](/mcp/torah-library.md) and structured [JSON](/mcp/torah-library.json) for download or programmatic use. Prefer JSON when you need fields rather than prose.

</details>

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