The Old Made New and the New Made Holy- Rav Kook
..... וְאֵ֥ין כׇּל־חָדָ֖שׁ תַּ֥חַת הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃
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There is nothing new
under the sun!
Caveat : Maybe all of these ideas already exist on Sefaria and I don't know about it, maybe you tried it and it does not work or maybe it is not financially feasible.
#1 "So there are seventy modes of expounding the Torah." - Bamidbar Rabbah
What if you had three options when you entered the site or the app, one for beginners one for regular users and one for scholars.
(8) Now,
Go, write it down on a tablet
And inscribe it in a record,
That it may be with them for future days,
A witness forever.
#2
Release a book exclusively on Sefaria. Get Yael Zeigler or Rabbi Angel to release their next book exclusively on the Sefaria platform in digital format.
Radiohead did this when they released In Rainbows in 2007, the publicity alone from releasing the album only in digital format and asking the fans to pay what they want was a brilliant maneuver. I think the works of Rabbi Lord Sacks, Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan and Heschel are essential to the English speaking Torah world.
I would love to have the ability to publish a book out of Sefaria sources, or source sheets and have it bound and delivered to my house or place of learning.
For example if I wanted The book of Judges with Rashi and Radak, and the rules of Kings from the Mishnah Torah, I could create a custom book and have that printed and sent to me.
This would have so many uses!!! So many!! One example - We could add to the tradition of Binay Mitzvah and have the participant research and create a book to learn.
# 3 Get a street in Israel named Sefaria - Bring the Torah to the streets !!!
Create a physical kiosk for Sefaria to place in semi public spaces. It would be a tablet attached to a lectern. People could access sources, see what Sefaria is about and print out a source sheet. They can be in places like Museums,college libraries, malls, the Kotel. Bring the Torah to the streets!!
(14) For the earth shall be filled
With awe for the glory of the LORD
As water covers the sea.-k
#4 Get the QR code to download the app on as many things as possible. Posters, street art, strike a deal with Starbucks and get the QR code on every cup in america for one day. Create posters with the menu for Sefaria, laminated with a QR code, put them up in every location possible that is legal. Stickers with the QR code, tshirts , hats, frisbee…etc
(6) Teach a kid in their way ;
He will not swerve from it even in old age.
#5 Spotify and Amazon make recommendations based on the data they have. They know how fast someone reads a book. Great recommendations result in longer and more time spent on the site. Spotify offers concert tickets to a band you are listening to. You could highlight classes or events that are related to a text for people who click on it, just like you can click on Mefarshim you could click on a Sefaria IRL button.
(16) Each year he made the rounds of Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah, and acted as judge over Israel at all those places.
#6 What about a Sefaria world tour!! This van drives around with source sheets and tablets and creates pop up Beis Medrash in the parking lot of 7/11 at a football game tailgate in an amusement park !! The van could tour North America,England,France,Spain,Israel, Ukraine, China,Japan and Australia. This would be amazing for publicity and good will.
(27) And יהוה said to Moses: Write down these commandments, for in accordance with these commandments I make a covenant with you and with Israel.
#7 Sefaria magazine!! A physical publication that is released quarterly (for now) that has amazing curated content from Sefaria , tips and tricks, popular source sheets. It could be centered around the Jewish holiday a but could expand past that with special editions for example Jewish weddings or food and Judaism. It would be awesome, I would read it.