New in the library: eight books from Sefaria's October update

2026-10-05

SeferAI searches the Sefaria library, and we now bring in Sefaria's monthly update automatically. This month added eight books, now searchable in SeferAI's answers and podcasts:

  • Rabbeinu Yonah on Berakhot (English): Rabbeinu Yonah of Gerona's 13th-century commentary on the Rif's Berakhot, the first tractate of the Talmud.
  • Chidushei Aggadot on Makkot (English): the Maharsha's commentary on the non-legal passages of the Talmud, drawing on philosophy and Kabbalah.
  • Malbim on Hosea (English): the 19th-century commentator who held that the Tanakh has no true synonyms or repetitions, each word carrying its own idea.
  • Mikdash Melekh on the Zohar (English): the first published systematic commentary on the entire Zohar, compiled in the 18th century by the Moroccan kabbalist Rabbi Shalom Buzaglo.
  • Ma'arekhet HaElokut (English): a 14th-century Spanish treatise on the fundamental theological questions of Kabbalah, of unknown authorship.
  • Annotations of Maharatz Chajes on Mishneh Torah, Laws of Repentance (English): Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Chajes's 19th-century notes on Maimonides.
  • Peninei Halakhah: Emunah UMitzvoteha and Peninei Halakhah: Giyur (Conversion) (Hebrew): two volumes of Rabbi Eliezer Melamed's contemporary, accessible presentation of practical halakhah.

Sefaria also updated 482 other texts this month, and those changes are in SeferAI too.

Try a question that reaches the new books, for example "What does Rabbeinu Yonah say about the time for the evening Shema?", on the web at https://seferai.org/ or in the SeferAI app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6760171876

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