SEsefaria
Calendars

GET /api/calendars/topics/parasha

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Returns topic metadata for the current week's parasha — title, ref, category ordering, and bilingual display values.

Request

  • Base URL
    https://www.sefaria.org
  • URL
    https://www.sefaria.org/api/calendars/topics/parasha
  • Auth
    none declared

Query parameters

diaspora'0' | '1'

Whether to return the diaspora parasha reading (1) or the Israel reading (0). Defaults to 1 (diaspora). In weeks where Israel and the diaspora read different portions, passing 0 returns the Israel reading.

Response

Successful Response

titleobject

Bilingual title of the parasha topic.

displayValueobject

Bilingual display value.

urlstring
refstring

A string representing a citation to a Jewish text.

A valid Ref consists of a title string followed optionally by a section string or a segment string.

A title string is any one of the known text titles or title variants in the Sefaria Database.

heRefstring
orderinteger
categorystring
extraDetailsobject

Example response

{
  "ref": "Mishnah Peah 4:2"
}

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