Matthew Miller · The Workshop
Writing and study sheets, tools for Jewish studies, data visualizations, and various tech experiments — 85 of them, and a new one most weeks.
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01 — Fresh off the bench
Ecclesiastes in Hebrew and English with 50 verse and word notes, six essays, and a trailer, all drawn from J.J. Kimche's six-part lecture series.
Type a topic or question and get a printable Hebrew–English source sheet. Candidates come from Sefaria's topic pages and full-text search; TypeSafe's Jev model judges each for relevance and substance, and code picks, dedupes and orders the best.
Holiday almanac for the working week — calendar, days-off planner, year comparisons, plus a free REST API and ICS feeds. Live at whenarethejewishholidays.com.
A weekly podcast: one parsha, one guest who wrote a doctorate on it. The season page has the trailer and the full 5787 schedule, from Parshat Breishit to V'Zot HaBerachah, with the dissertation featured each week.
02 — Writing & Outputs
Things I've written or produced — books, study sheets and annotated texts — as opposed to the interactive tools further down.
A two-page study sheet for Bereshit (Genesis 1:1–6:8). Word, verse and root counts computed from the OSHB/WLC morphology across the whole Tanakh — including the five words that occur nowhere else in the Bible — what the parasha calls God, how its word-count divides across the seven days of creation, and Biblical→Modern Hebrew notes including a real Kibbutz-movement dance-festival score literally titled "יהי אור!" from the National Library of Israel.
A two-page study sheet for Noach (Genesis 6:9–11:32). Word, verse and root counts computed from the OSHB/WLC morphology across the whole Tanakh — including the thirteen words that occur nowhere else in the Bible — what the parasha calls God, how its word-count divides across the flood's eight narrative units, and Biblical→Modern Hebrew notes including a real 1993 dance-festival flyer titled "מבול" from the National Library of Israel.
A two-page study sheet for Lech Lecha (Genesis 12:1–17:27). Word, verse and root counts computed from the OSHB/WLC morphology across the whole Tanakh — including thirteen words that occur nowhere else in the Bible, eleven of them in the war of the kings — the six names the parasha uses for God and the verse where it hands off from one to another, and Biblical→Modern Hebrew notes (מולדת, שכר, צדקה, המון) evidenced by posters from the National Library of Israel.
A study sheet for Vayera (Genesis 18:1–22:24). Word, verse and root counts computed from the OSHB/WLC morphology across the whole Tanakh — including thirteen words that occur nowhere else in the Bible, nine of them in chapter 22 beside the verb that named the Binding — the four names the parasha uses for God and the five-and-five split inside the Binding, nine narrative units by word count, Biblical→Modern Hebrew notes drawn from Ma'agarim and Balashon (the overthrow of Sodom that became a revolution, an archer that became a rifle, a test that became an attempt), and Uriel Simon on Abraham's two answers.
A two-page study sheet for Ha'azinu (Deuteronomy 32). Word, verse and root counts computed from the OSHB/WLC morphology across the whole Tanakh — including the eleven words that occur nowhere else in the Bible — the six designations the song uses for God, the six Levitical sections of Rosh Hashanah 31a, and Biblical→Modern Hebrew notes evidenced by posters from the National Library of Israel.
A two-page study sheet for V'Zot HaBerachah (Deuteronomy 33–34). Word, verse and root counts computed from the OSHB/WLC morphology across the whole Tanakh — including thirteen words that occur nowhere else in the Bible — how Moses divided his blessing among the tribes (and the one, Simeon, he skipped, per Ibn Ezra), and Biblical→Modern Hebrew notes evidenced by street posters from the National Library of Israel.
A weekly two-page text and teaching on the parasha, in memory of Prof. Uriel Simon z"l (1929–2026). Page one sets the verses beside Simon's own Hebrew words on them, translated; page two is a teaching and questions for the table. It opens with Noach, Lech Lecha and Vayera, read through his essay on Abraham, "the blessing of contradictions."
A weekly podcast: one parsha, one guest who wrote a doctorate on it. The season page has the trailer and the full 5787 schedule, from Parshat Breishit to V'Zot HaBerachah, with the dissertation featured each week.
The Mevakshim Book is a compilation of insights, summaries, and reflections drawn from the shiurim delivered during the Boca Raton Synagogue (BRS) Mevakshim Fly-In on May 23, 2025. It captures the powerful teachings and inspirational messages of some of today’s leading Torah giants, offering a window into their unique hashkafot and spiritual guidance.
Featured rabbanim include:
The book serves as a meaningful record of the event, preserving the depth and emotion of the experience while inspiring continued growth for those who learn from it.
Bilingual annotated study of Rebbe Nachman's Likutei Moharan examining 256 passages on intellect, external wisdom, and faith — with embedded PDF and an interactive stance filter.
03 — Interactive Tools & Apps
Tools for reading, memorizing, scheduling and seeing Torah — most of them built on Sefaria's open APIs.
Everything on the site for the weekly Torah reading in one place: this week's parasha with its reader, sheet, picture book and podcast episode, the reader series, tools that work on any parasha, and all 54 parshiyot of 5787 with links to each one.
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Every chapter of the Torah as a painting, 187 of them. TypeSafe's Jev reads each chapter and picks the verse to paint, then art-directs it as typed answers with probabilities: setting, light, weather, framing, palette, painting tradition, tension and scale. Code turns those answers into the prompt, and FLUX.2 [klein] 4B paints it. Filter for every night scene in the Torah, or open any painting to see Jev's runner-up verses and the exact prompt.
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Memorize Hebrew texts from Sefaria.
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Visualize Haftarah readings across rites.
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Interactive map of Biblical locations and US/UK cities.
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Explore the ages and timelines of biblical characters at key events based on different commentaries.
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Recreate images using chosen text.
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Advanced Zmanim lookup and comparison.
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In-depth exploration of biblical texts.
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Customized Torah and Mishnah study schedules.
View Project Holiday almanac for the working week — calendar, days-off planner, year comparisons, plus a free REST API and ICS feeds. Live at whenarethejewishholidays.com.
View Project Ecclesiastes in Hebrew and English with 50 verse and word notes, six essays, and a trailer, all drawn from J.J. Kimche's six-part lecture series.
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Every name in the genealogies of Bereshit and Noach as a radial family tree and a lifespan timeline, cross-referenced with 75 years of Israeli baby names (CBS) by year, sex and community, with live Wikipedia and Wikidata lookups and a trailer.
View Project Type a topic or question and get a printable Hebrew–English source sheet. Candidates come from Sefaria's topic pages and full-text search; TypeSafe's Jev model judges each for relevance and substance, and code picks, dedupes and orders the best.
View ProjectType any food, or a whole table of them, and get the bracha before and after, in Hebrew, and the order to say them in. TypeSafe's Jev model answers factual questions (what is it mostly made of, is the fruit still recognizable, is there real grain in it) and the rules of brachot, in code, decide, flagging close calls.
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Peshat-based picture books where Aviya, Tzofia and Lielle explore Bereshit, Noach and Lech Lecha — pesukim from Sefaria on every page, FLUX.2 [klein] illustrations drawn from the girls' photos, Jev peshat checks, printable PDFs and voiced trailers. Upload your own kids to make one.
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One page per shelf of the Jewish library: the Mega Bible, Mega Mishnah and Mega Siddur side by side, with what each one does and what they share.
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The whole Hebrew Bible in one reader: word-by-word morphology, literary devices, Biblical→Modern Hebrew usage with National Library evidence, haftarot by rite, any Sefaria translation alongside, 929 audio, Psalm emotion tags, and the parasha sheets opened from the verses they cover. Part of the Mega readers.
View ProjectEvery verse of Tehillim tagged by emotional state — Jev-analyzed across twelve emotions and visualized as the emotional arc of Psalms, from lament to praise. Click any tag in the Mega Bible to explore.
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All six orders of the Mishnah with every Tanna colour-coded, so you can see who argues with whom. Each mishnah shows its Bavli, Yerushalmi and Tosefta links, with Bartenura, Rambam and Tosafot Yom Tov in the side panel, plus Mishnah Yomit and siyum progress. Part of the Mega readers.
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A working siddur (Ashkenaz, Sefard, Edot HaMizrach) that knows what day it is: rain or dew, Ya'aleh VeYavo, Hallel, Tachanun and the Omer flagged in the text, a Now button for the current service, and Sefaria sources plus a personal commentary layer. Part of the Mega readers.
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Explore the Hebrew Bible with highlighted literary devices.
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Halachic watchface for the Garmin Instinct 2 showing all 11 zmanim, Hebrew date, shaah zmanit, next-zman countdown, period progress bar, and an innovative day-arc timeline — built in Monkey C using the NOAA solar algorithm. Accuracy within ±0.8 min of Hebcal API.
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Maps, matrices and databases that make a pile of numbers legible.
Search and explore Israeli government data on imported food products and kashrut certifications.
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Interactive crossover visualizer mapping ingredient frequencies and sharing ratios across 25 popular Trader Joe's seasonings.
View ProjectMy library: every book on the shelf, and the ones I gave away but kept as a scan. Paste an archive.org or HebrewBooks.org link and it fills in the title, author, PDF and an in-page preview; an ISBN looks the book up on Open Library.
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Track and share cities, states, and countries visited.
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Things that end up printed, cut or 3D-printed.
Fifty-four neckties, one for every weekly Torah portion. FLUX.2 [klein] 4B draws each parsha as a small repeating pattern (arks and doves for Noach, the seven species for Eikev), the pattern is tiled into a print-ready tie file, and Printify makes real products and mockups from it. Find any parsha by English or Hebrew name, or jump to this week's. Code YUD takes 10% off, because yud is worth 10.
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A full year on a 3.5×2" card — clever row alignment means every month shares the same date grid. Download as PDF, LaTeX source, or 3D-printable STL.
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Fifteen café drinks as cutaway 3D cups, from kafe hafuch and botz to cappuccino and flat white, each poured layer by layer in the order the barista makes it. Modelled in Blender from data, turned in the browser with three.js. Part of the new /3d hub with the tefillin card and print tools.
View ProjectBrowser toolbox for 3D printing — STL viewer & stats, scaling, cost estimator, bed-fit checker, a sand-castle mold generator that turns any model into a printable beach mold, plus lithophane, QR plaque, and name-tag generators.
View Project06 — Interactive Tools & Apps
Small dashboards wired to live public feeds — many of them paint a FLUX portrait of whatever is happening right now.
Telegram bot that turns my kids' quotes into AI-illustrated watercolor storybook cards — with their real faces and exact age. One free Cloudflare Worker, Google Sheets as the database, Replicate for the art. Read how it works.
Real-time weather meets FLUX AI portrait generation. Fetches live conditions from Open-Meteo, builds a weather-shaped prompt, then generates a portrait via FLUX 2 Klein 4B image-to-image — sunny vibes, rainy streets, or full blizzard depending on what's actually outside.
Live global seismic activity powered by the USGS real-time GeoJSON feed. SVG world map with magnitude-colored dots, hover tooltips, magnitude histogram, and a live scrolling feed — refreshes every 60 seconds.
Real-time aircraft overhead using the OpenSky Network API. Radar-style canvas view, flight list sorted by altitude, and live stats — detects your location and shows every tracked plane within 280km.
Real-time ISS position from Open Notify, updating every 5 seconds. SVG world map with orbital trail, distance and ETA from your location — and a FLUX portrait generated the moment the station passes within 2,000 km overhead.
Live BTC/ETH/SOL/DOGE prices from CoinGecko, with a market-mood system (Euphoria → REKT) that drives a FLUX AI portrait — bull Matthew, bear Matthew, zen Matthew. Includes a Torah perspective on each market condition.
This week's Torah portion from Sefaria's live calendar API — aliyot, description, and a FLUX biblical scene illustration with scene-variant regeneration. Coverage for all 54 parshot mapped to their iconic moments.
Yesterday's most-read Wikipedia articles via the Wikimedia REST API, with category filters (All / Jewish+Israel / Sports / Science / Culture), proportional view bars, and a 'Jewish interest' spotlight for the day's top related article.
Planet vitals dashboard: weather, ISS position, seismic activity, BTC price, Parsha HaShavua, and Wikipedia #1 — all live. Synthesizes all conditions into a single FLUX 'World Moment' portrait.
Live AI, ML, NLP, and Vision research papers direct from the arXiv API. Category tabs, full-text search, conference venue detection, and load-more pagination.
Real-time space weather from NOAA SWPC: solar wind speed and density, Kp geomagnetic index (7-day chart), X-ray flare class, aurora latitude bands, and storm alerts. Generates a FLUX aurora portrait styled by current Kp intensity.
Today's complete Jewish learning calendar live from Sefaria — Daf Yomi (with text preview), Parasha, Mishnah Yomit, 929, Rambam, Halakhah Yomit, Tanya, Yerushalmi Yomi, Daf a Week, and Hebrew date — all in one place. Generates a FLUX Talmudic scene illustration for each day's tractate.
Real-time Hacker News top 150 stories via the Firebase API, refreshed every 90 seconds. Smart filters for AI/ML, Data, Jewish/Israel, Ask HN, Show HN — plus full-text search and live score, comment, and domain stats.
Real-time EPA AQI and pollutant breakdown (PM2.5, PM10, ozone, NO₂) for your location via Open-Meteo. 24-hour AQI chart, health guidance by level, and a FLUX portrait styled by current air quality from clear-day jogger to gas-mask dystopia.
Historical events, births, and deaths for today's date from Wikipedia's REST API. Jewish and Israeli history highlighted, era filters (Ancient/Medieval/Modern/Contemporary), full-text search, and click any event to generate a FLUX scene with Matthew as a historical witness.
Live streaming global radio from the Radio Browser community API. Curated tabs for Jewish music, Israeli stations, jazz, classical, Chicago, and lo-fi — click any station to stream instantly in-browser.
Live trending GitHub repositories via the GitHub search API. Smart topic filters (AI/LLMs, Data Tools, Web Dev, DevTools, Hebrew/Jewish tech) with time-range selector, star proportional background bars, and matthewjmiller07 profile view.
Search Open Food Facts' 3M+ product database for kosher-certified foods. Displays certification agencies (OU, OK, Kof-K, cRc, Star-K), nutrition facts, and generates a FLUX portrait of Matthew enjoying the dish — Shabbat-table setting for kosher items.
Recent crime incidents from Chicago's open data portal (Socrata API) — type breakdown with proportional bars, hourly time-of-day chart, 25-district heatmap grid, and community area leaderboard. Filter by crime type or district. Refreshes every 5 minutes.
Real-time MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL scores via the ESPN public API, refreshing every 30 seconds. Live game status, score cards with team logos and colors, venue info, and Chicago team highlighting.
Lichess daily puzzle via their free API — embedded Lichess board, puzzle themes (mateIn2, fork, pin, endgame, etc.), player info from the source game, hidden solution reveal, and a FLUX portrait of Matthew deep in thought at a chess board.
07 — Interactive Tools & Apps
Playable things.
A 3D game of Hilchot Tefillin, siman 25. Run the Hefsek Gauntlet to your shel rosh while Shmerel, your kid and the Rav try to make you talk, survive Kaddish without saying amen, blast flying phones with a Do Not Disturb pulse, catch the right brachot for Rashi and Rabbeinu Tam, hum (or hush) at the Shabbat table, and collect rulings from 20 poskim walking the shul. React Three Fiber, Rapier physics, Yuka AI, three.quarks particles.
View ProjectStreet-level Ra'anana, starting with Ahuza Street — a visual walk through street life in the Sharon.
View ProjectA playable game for each daf — scenarios, rulings and dilemmas drawn from the day's sugya. Bekhorot and Chullin so far.
View Project07 — The archive
Earlier experiments and side quests, mostly on GitHub Pages.
These applications are currently hosted on GitHub Pages and will be moved to subdomains of my custom domain soon.
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