Support · Folio · תשפ״ו
Help keep the threshold open.
Ryzowy offers student-first orientation for serious returnees: foundational texts, questions for a rabbi, noise reduction, pacing, and bounded AI guidance.
Contributions help maintain free access, support responsible source infrastructure, and make limited Ask Ryzowy usage available to people beginning without clarity, community, or resources.
Donations support access — not authority.
Tiers of support
- $18Support the ThresholdKeeps free orientation, beginner guides, and the public folio open to everyone arriving at the gate.
- $54Fund the source layerMaintains source-linked tools, responsible text orientation, and the artifacts students take home.
- $180Sponsor a studentUnderwrites a paid tier for someone who cannot yet pay — the most direct way to widen the path.
- $540Strengthen the campSupports community infrastructure, future guides, and the slow build of a real student institution.
Or give another amount — open the mitzvah page →
Support Sefaria directly
Ryzowy points learners toward primary Jewish texts through Sefaria's open library. If that source layer has served your learning, please consider supporting Sefaria directly. Donations through this link go to Sefaria, not Ryzowy.
Sefaria is a separate nonprofit project. Ryzowy is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Sefaria.
What support does not buy
Contributions do not purchase religious authority, rulings, priority truth, personal halachic guidance, or access to a rabbi. Ryzowy is an orientation project, not a rabbinic authority.
Paid usage tiers, accounts, and saved study tools may come later — and if they do, they will increase capacity, not authority. No supporter receives a different Torah from anyone else.
A note on legal status
Ryzowy is currently a project in formation. Contributions are not tax-deductible unless and until a qualified nonprofit structure is established. We will say so plainly here when that changes.
If you would rather not give money, the most useful contribution is attention: read The Return Path →, bring honest questions to a living rabbi →, and quiet the noise around you.