Fetching Parashah and Relevant Commentary from Sefaria
optional but useful for multiple commentaries: Multi-Column Markdown plugin
if you choose not to use the multi-column-markdown plugin, you need to remove the columns code, which are marked by ---end-multi-Y, Y-settings, and start-multi-Y. just replace Y with column.
people who want something copy and pastable and are interested in using Obsidian for Torah study
the above repository contains code that pulls the current week's parashah and various commentaries on it, using the Sefaria API (which, to my amazement and wonder, doesn't need keys to access) and the Templater plug-in. the snippets should turn Sefaria's HTML formatting for footnotes, small, strong, breaks, and superscripts, into Obsidian-ready formatting. by default, the snippet will fetch you text from the The Contemporary Torah.
i am not a programmer and i have days where i have low spoons and high brainfog, so i wanted to make a resource that automates the tedious parts of the process and share it for anyone who can find a use for it.
this is intended to be used with multiple panes, 1 pane containing the parashah text, 1 other containing the commentaries, and 1 other containing your notes, since that's my process. but go ham.
- weekly parasha
- commentaries
- pick ur own
- rashi and ibn ezra
- rashi, ibn ezra, and the zohar
- the zohar
customisation
- while intended for use with the