Blog
Posts on how NavTorah works and on the halacha of the Torah reading.
What to do when no one can read Torah
What the 2026 CJLS responsum says about what to do when no one can read Torah, and how NavTorah helps read from the scroll.
ReadHow NavTorah knows which column the sefer is open at
We follow one real photo of a sefer step by step, from separating the ink from the parchment to placing the column among the Torah's 80,316 words.
ReadHow we trained the network that reads the sefer
The synthetic photos it learned to read from, the fonts, and how we tested it on four real sifrei it had never seen, one of them from the 15th century.
ReadNavTorah's first version, with the Anthropic API
How Claude read the columns in the MVP, how long it took and what it cost, and why we moved to our own network on the phone.
ReadAbout me
My work improving processes, my 11 years at Bet Hilel and what I study at La Ieshive.
ReadWhy I made NavTorah
Before leading the High Holiday services in Formosa, one of my biggest fears was not finding the aliyot in the sefer. That's how this app started.
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