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{!hideTitle ?
<ModuleTitle h1={true}>side_nav.about_pecha_title</ModuleTitle> : null }
<InterfaceText>side_nav.about_pecha_description</InterfaceText>
{<a href="/about" className="inTextLink">
<InterfaceText>
<EnglishText>Learn More ›</EnglishText>
<HebrewText> མུ་མཐུད་གཟིགས། ›</HebrewText>
</InterfaceText>
</a>}
</Module>
);

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<div class="inner">
<header id="aboutHeader" class="sans-serif-in-hebrew">
<h1 id="aboutTitle">
<span class="int-en">About Sefaria</span>
<span class="int-en">About Pecha</span>
</h1>
<div id="aboutTitleSub">
<span class="int-en">A Living Library of Torah Texts Online.</span>
<span class="int-en">A Living Library of Buddhist Texts Online.</span>
</div>
</header>
<section class="about section">

<p class="first">
<span class="int-en">We are the People of the Book.
For thousands of years, our culture, our traditions, and our values have been transmitted through our texts.
From an oral tradition to handwritten scrolls to a vast corpus of printed books, each new medium democratized knowledge,
and brought more people into the great Jewish conversation.
We are the generation charged with shepherding our texts from print to digital in a way that can expand their reach
and impact in new and unprecedented ways.
</span>
</p>
<p>
<span class="int-en">Pecha is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building the future of Buddhist learning in an open and participatory way.
We are assembling a free living library of Buddhist texts and their interconnections,
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</p>

</section>
<header>
<h1>
<span class="int-en">Sefaria's Vision</span>
</h1>
</header>
<section class="section">
<header>
<h2>
<span class="int-en">Access</span>
</h2>
</header>
<p>
<span class="int-en">For the Jewish people, our texts are our collective inheritance.
They belong to everyone and we want them to be available to everyone,
in the public domain or with free public licenses.
Whether it’s copying a page of text for your classroom or
<a href="https://github.com/Sefaria/Sefaria-Export">downloading our entire database</a> for research and new projects,
you’ll enjoy unfettered access to the canon.
</span>
</p>
<header>
<h2>
<span class="int-en">Infrastructure</span>
</h2>
</header>
<p>
<span class="int-en">All of our code is released under an open source license, and we offer services including a live <a href="/developers">API</a> to any project that can make use of them. We invite everyone to reuse our code and data to <a href="https://github.com/Sefaria/Sefaria-Project/wiki/Projects-Powered-by-Sefaria">build apps</a>, conduct <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Sefaria+and+Jewish&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5">research</a> or make <a href="https://www.sefaria.org/visualizations">visualizations</a>. We believe the basic infrastructure for Jewish tech is something we should share. </span>
</p>
<header>
<h2>
<span class="int-en">Education</span>
</h2>
</header>
<p>
<span class="int-en">Sefaria is not merely an archive for preserving Jewish texts; it is a platform meant to give these texts new life. Accordingly, all of our product development efforts are designed to make Sefaria into a better learning and teaching tool. Sefaria is committed to working in partnership with educators to explore and develop the frontiers of Jewish educational technology.</span>
</p>
<header>
<h2>
<span class="int-en">Conversation</span>
</h2>
</header>
<p>
<span class="int-en">Judaism's core texts grew out of millennia-long conversations and arguments across generations. More than a collection of books on a shelf, the Jewish canon is a giant corpus of interconnected texts that speak to each other. Sefaria is making it easier than ever to explore the conversations of the past, while also creating a space for ancient conversations to continue in new ways, with new participants, new questions, and new layers of dialogue. Stay tuned.</span>
</p>
</section>
<section class="section sans-serif" id="history">
<header>
<h1>
<span class="serif int-en">History</span>
</h1>
</header>

<section id="2011">
<header><h2 class="year first">2011</h2></header>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Best-selling author Joshua Foer and Google alum Brett Lockspeiser develop the initial concept for Sefaria.</span>
</section>
</section>

<section id="2012">
<header><h2 class="year">2012</h2></header>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Foer and Lockspeiser quietly release a beta version of the site.</span>
</section>
</section>

<section id="2013">
<header><h2 class="year">2013</h2></header>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">
Tech investor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Koyfman" target="_blank">Mo Koyfman</a> joins the co-founders to form Sefaria’s Board of Directors. Together they secure crucial early funding from the Natan Fund, <a
href="/henry-and-julia-koschitzky-apps">Jonathan and Tamar Koschitzky</a>, and the Jim Joseph Foundation.
</span>
</section>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Sefaria incorporates as a nonprofit and hires its first employee – who remains at the company to this day!</span>
</section>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">The Sefaria library grows to 8.5 million words.</span>
</section>
</section>

<section id="2014">
<header><h2 class="year">2014</h2></header>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Sefaria’s engineers stretch the limits of what digital Torah can do by pioneering the first <a
href="/explore?lang=en">data visualization tool</a> showcasing connections between Tanakh and Talmud.
</span>
</section>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Users create 6,000 source sheets using Sefaria’s Source Sheet Builder.</span>
</section>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Sefaria launches its Day School Partnership Initiative with a cohort of four schools.</span>
</section>
</section>

<section id="2015">
<header><h2 class="year">2015</h2></header>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Sefaria makes its <a
href="https://blog.sefaria.org/2015/02/11/sefaria-and-urim-publications-strike-unprecedented/">first deal</a> with a major Jewish publisher to digitize and release translations into the public domain.
</span>
</section>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Using Sefaria’s database and API, independent developers around the world create 12 third-party <a
href="https://github.com/Sefaria/Sefaria-Project/wiki/Projects-Powered-by-Sefaria">apps</a>.
</span>
</section>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">The Sefaria library grows to include 50 million words.</span>
</section>
</section>

<section id="2016">
<header><h2 class="year">2016</h2></header>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en"><a href="/team">Sefaria’s professional team</a> now spans the globe, including more than a dozen people across eight cities in North America and Israel.</span>
</section>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Sefaria releases a complete, bilingual version of <a
href="/texts/Tanakh/Rishonim%20on%20Tanakh/Rashi">Rashi’s Torah commentary</a>.</span>
</section>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Sefaria puts the Torah in users’ pockets with its first mobile apps for <a
href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.sefaria.sefaria" target="_blank">Android</a> and <a
href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sefaria/id1163273965?ls=1&mt=8"
target="_blank">iOS</a>.
</span>
</section>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Sefaria reaches 50,000 unique visitors in a 30-day period.</span>
</section>
</section>

<section id="2017">
<header><h2 class="year">2017</h2></header>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">
Sefaria makes history by releasing <a
href="/william-davidson-talmud">The William Davidson Talmud</a>, including Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz Even-Israel's English and Modern Hebrew translations.
</span>
</section>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Sefaria launches sefaria.org.il, a website for Israelis and native Hebrew speakers.</span>
</section>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Sefaria doubles one of its key milestones within a single year, reaching 100,000 unique visitors in a 30-day period.</span>
</section>
</section>

<section>
<header><h2 class="year">2018</h2></header>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">More than 1 million users hailing from almost every country in the world visit Sefaria’s library in a single year.</span>
</section>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Sefaria launches two pilot programs in Israel with the Ministry of Education.</span>
</section>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Sefaria’s library grows to 183 million words: 143 million in Hebrew and 40 million in English translation.</span>
</section>
</section>

<section id="2020">
<header><h2 class="year">2019</h2></header>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">
Sefaria celebrates the historic release of Nechama Leibowitz's <a
href="https://www.sefaria.org/collections/%D7%92%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%A0%D7%97%D7%9E%D7%94">sourcesheet collection</a>, marking the first female commentator in the core Sefaria library.
</span>
</section>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Users continue creating source sheets and the database hits 200,000!</span>
</section>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">
Co-founder Brett Lockspeiser is selected to the Forward 50 <a
href="https://forward.com/culture/436705/forward-50-brett-lockspeiser-the-torah-technologist/">list</a> of influential American Jews, and Sefaria is <a
href="https://www.jta.org/2019/12/30/united-states/10-ways-american-jewish-life-changed-in-the-2010s">named</a> as one of the top 10 developments of the last decade.
</span>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<header><h2 class="year">2020</h2></header>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Sefaria pivots to meet the needs of COVID-19, offering resources for celebrating holidays at home, tips for distance learning, and video chavruta technology.</span>
</section>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Topical search is launched, a major update to the site’s architecture and a critical tool for beginners to be able to navigate the library.</span>
</section>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Sefaria hits record traffic with 500,000/users in a month – a full year ahead of our goal.</span>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<header><h2 class="year">2021</h2></header>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Sefaria unveils a major site redesign which lines the library with explanatory text and features.</span>
</section>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Sefaria overcomes copyright hurdles to add the works of major female scholars to the library, including the first woman to be included in Sefaria’s official list of Talmud commentators, Dr. Judith Hauptman.</span>
</section>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Sefaria adds major classic works in English to the library, including Ramban and Ibn Ezra on Torah, Rashi on Tanakh, the Jerusalem Talmud, and more.</span>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<header><h2 class="year">2022</h2></header>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Sefaria adds English translations of Midrash Rabbah (Sefaria’s first major commissioned translation) and Rambam’s Mishneh Torah.</span>
</section>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Sefaria adds the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (BDB), the most comprehensive and widely used scholarly dictionary for Torah study, to the Reference section.</span>
</section>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Sefaria surpasses 600,000 users in one month for the first time.</span>
</section>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Sefaria raises $1M in donations of $1,000 or less from its user community.</span>
</section>
<section class="historyItem">
<span class="int-en">Sefaria adds a French Jerusalem Talmud to its collection of translated texts, which includes a German translation of the Babylonian Talmud.</span>
</section>
</section>
</section>


</div>
</main>
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