Thursday, November 29, 2007

Online Torah Library - Part 2

  • Small tractates & Gaonim
    • Sedar Olam - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=30 (pdfs)
    • Seder Olam Zuta - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=29 (pdfs)
    • Derech Eretz Zuta - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/toshba/zuta/shaar-2.htm
    • Megillat Taanit - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/toshba/makor/megilat-2.htm
    • another - http://www.shechem.org/torah/megtan/all.html
    • Igeret Rav Shrira Gaon (pdf) - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=25
    • Alpha Bita d'Ben Sira (pdf) - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/hasfarim/alfa-2.htm
    • Hilchot Pesukot Min ha Gaonim (pdf) - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=240
    • Rav Hai Gaon - "Hamekach v'ha-Memkar" - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=239 (pdf)
    • "Musar Haskeil" - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=117 (pdfs)
    • Siddur Rav Amram Gaon - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=24 (pdfs)
    • Sheiltot of Rav Achai Gaon - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=152 (pdfs)
    • Teshuvot ha-Gaonim - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=228 (pdfs)
    • Shu"t Rav Saadia Gaon - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=227 (pdfs)
    • Teshuvot Talmudei Menachem etc. - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=163 (pdfs)
    • Rif Yomi Blog - http://alfasi.blogspot.com/2005/10/rif-index.html

  • Rambam
    • Mishna Torah Text in Hebrew - http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/5634/jewish/Mishneh-Torah-Hebrew.htm
    • Guide to the Perplexed (English) - http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Guide_for_the_Perplexed_%28Friedlander%29
    • Guide (Hebrew, Kapach) - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/more/shaar-2.htm
    • Igrot (pdfs) - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=157
    • Igeret Teiman - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/mekorot/teyman-2.htm
    • Igeret L'Chachmei Marseilles - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/mekorot/igeret-2.htm
    • Hakdama l'Perush Mishnayot - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/hakdama/shaar-2.htm
    • Ma'amar Kiddush Hashem - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/mekorot/kidush-2.htm
    • English Translations of :
      • Yesodei ha-Torah - http://www.panix.com/~jjbaker/MadaYHT.html
      • D'eot - http://www.panix.com/~jjbaker/MadaD.html
      • Talmud Torah - http://www.panix.com/~jjbaker/MadaTT.html
      • Avoda Zara - http://www.panix.com/~jjbaker/MadaAkum.html
      • Teshuva - http://www.panix.com/~jjbaker/MadaT.html

    • Sefer ha-Mitzvot - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/hamitsvot/shaar-2.htm
    • Shmona Perakim - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/shmona/shaar-2.htm
    • Shu"t Rambam - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=155 (pdfs)
    • List of Halacha - http://www.vharevnu.org/About%20Mitzvahs/Rambam%20Categories.htm
    • A number of texts from Rambam - http://www.maimonidesheritage.org/QuotesText.asp
    • Rambam on Parsha - http://www.maimonidesheritage.org/TorahPortion.asp
    • "Ma'amar Drashot Chazal" (Avraham ben ha-Rambam) - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/agadot/hagada1-2.htm

  • Rishonim
    • Tosefot - http://www.tosfos.com/
    • Kuzari (Hebrew) - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/kuzari/shaar-2.htm
    • Kuzari (in English) - http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Kitab_al_Khazari
    • another - http://www.tsel.org/torah/kuzari/eindex.html
    • Crescas' "Or Hashem" - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=153 (pdf)
    • Crescas' "Ha-Reshut Netuna" - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/hareshut/tohen-2.htm
    • Rabbeinu Asher - "Orchot Chayim" - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/mekorot/orhot-2.htm
    • Ramban, "Shaar ha-Gmul" - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/hagmul/shaar-4.htm
    • Igeret ha-Ramban - http://www.pirchei.com/specials/ramban/ramban.htm
    • Igeret ha-Gra - http://www.pirchei.co.il/specials/gra/gra.htm
    • Minhagim of Rav Yitzchak Isaac Tirnau - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=135 (pdfs)
    • Sefer ha-Manhig - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=101 (pdfs)
    • Rav Yosef Albo "Sefer ha-Ikkarim" - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/ikarim/shaar-2.htm
    • Ikkarim in Pdfs - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=178
    • Bachya ibn Pekuda "Chovot Halvovot" - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/hovot/tohen-2.htm
    • And in PDFS - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=199
    • Sefer Yereim - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=141(pdfs)
    • Hameiri - "Magen Avot" - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=95 (pdfs)
    • Sefer ha-Yuchsin - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=221 (pdfs)
    • Rabbeinu Yonah - "Shaarei Teshuva" - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=122 (pdfs)
    • Rabbeinu Yonah - "Sefer ha-Yirah" - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/mahadurot/sefer-2.htm
    • Pdf version- http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=123
    • Sefer ha-Kabbalah (Avraham Bar Shlomo) - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=28 (pdfs)
    • Sefer ha-Kabbalah (Raavad) - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=27 (pdf)
    • Sefer ha-Shtarot (Yehudah Bartzeloni) - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=94 (pdfs)
    • Shu"t Maharam Me-Rotenberg - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=190 (pdfs)
    • Shu"t Rama - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=193 (pdfs)
    • Shu"t Chacham Tzvi - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=226 (pdfs)
    • Shu"t Tashbetz - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=229 (pdfs)
    • Sefer Tashbetz - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=124 (pdfs)
    • Shu"t Maharil - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=85 (pdfs)

  • Early Acharonim
    • Ramchal - "Mesilat Yesharim" - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/mesilat/shaar-2.htm
      • Hebrew/English Mesilat Yesharim - http://www.famousrabbis.com/my/my.htm
      • English - http://www.shechem.org/torah/mesyesh/index.htm
      • "Derekh Hashem" - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/mekorot/shaar-2.htm
      • Ma'amar ha-Chochma - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/mekorot/hahohma-2.htm
      • Ma'amar ha-Ikkarim - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/mekorot/haikarim-2.htm
      • Ma'amar ha-Haggadot - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/agadot/hagada2-2.htm

    • Maharal - "Ner Mitzvah" - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/shabat/hanuka/ner-2.htm
    • Maharal - "Tiferet Yisrael" = http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/tifeeret/tohen.htm
    • Shu"t Maharam Me-Lublin - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=194 (pdfs)
    • Minhagim (Menashe b. Israel) (pictures of the book online) - http://cf.uba.uva.nl/en/collections/rosenthaliana/menasseh/19e14/index.html

  • Late Acharonim
    • "Tanya" (English) - http://www.shechem.org/torah/tanya/index.html
    • "Sefer Noam Elimelekh" - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=173 (pdfs)
    • "Or Yisrael" by R'Yisrael Salanter - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=180 (pdf)
    • "Milamed L'Holil" - Rav David Tzvi Hoffman - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=233 (pdfs)
    • "Meishiv Davar" Shu"t of the Netziv - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=234 (pdfs)
    • "Sefer Chofetz Chaim" - http://www.zemach.co.il/dt/hh/rvdb_01hh.htm
    • "Shmirat ha-Loshon" (Chofetz Chaim) - http://www.zemach.co.il/dt/hh/rvdb_02sl.htm
    • Piskei Din of Rabbanut ha-Roshit - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/psk/index.htm
    • Piskei Din of Beit Din Yerushalayim - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=203
    • another - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=47
    • another - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=44
    • Rav Ovadya Yosef - http://www.halachayomit.co.il/DisplayResult.asp?All=True
    • Rav Teichtal's "Eim haBanim Smeicha" (English) online pictures - http://www.tsel.org/torah/emhabanim-eng/index.html

  • Soloveitchik
    • "Nefesh ha-Chayim" (Rav Chaim of Volozhin) - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=55 (pdfs)
    • The Rav.net - http://www.therav.net/default.htm
    • "The Rav" (by Rabbi Rakefet-Rothkoff) Google Books - http://books.google.com/books?id=3y9QBzS-MhMC
    • Rav conference with texts - http://www.bc.edu/research/cjl/meta-elements/texts/center/conferences/soloveitchik/

  • Mysticism & Chassidut
    • Zohar (pdfs) - http://www.famousrabbis.com/zohar/zohar.htm
    • Zohar with perush Sulam - http://www.kabbalah.info/PDF/idx_zohar.htm

  • Reference
    • MALMAD - Israel Center for Digital Information Services - http://libnet.ac.il/
    • Otzer Roshei Teivot (pdfs) - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=9
    • Otzer Laazei Rashi - Tanakh (pdfs) - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=20
    • Otzer Laazei Rashi - Talmud (pdfs) - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=22
    • Zemanim - http://myzmanim.com/

  • Translations
    • http://translation2.paralink.com/
    • Hebrew Grammar - http://www.hebrew-verbs.co.il/

  • Biographies
  • http://www.jewishgen.org/rabbinic/infofiles/rabbis.htm
  • http://www.torahproductions.com/commentators.jsp
  • http://www.chabad.org/library/article.htm/aid/111828/jewish/Gallery-of-Our-Great.html
  • http://www.eisheschayil.com/private/hashgafa/gedolim.htm

  • Poetry & Piyut
    • http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/sifrut/shira.htm
    • http://www.piyut.org.il/

  • Halakha, Halakha Codes & Code Summaries
  • Shulchan Arukh (Orech Chayim) (pdf etc)- http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~wiseman/shulhan-aruch/
  • Ben Ish Chai - http://www.shechem.org/torah/benishhi/index.html
  • Teimani Shulchan Arukh - http://www.temani.co.il/asp/index.asp
  • Mishna Berura (online pictures of the Daf) - http://www.mishnaberurah.com/
  • Pitchei Teshuva - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=230 (pdfs)
  • Kitzur Shulchan Arukh
    • Online, Hebrew with Nekudot - http://www.kitzur.net/main.php?nk=1&siman=1
    • Online in Hebrew - http://www.shofar.net/Content/Kitzur_Shulchan.htm
    • (Hebrew/English, pdfs) - http://www.geocities.com/yona_n.geo/kizzur/kiz-index1.html
    • (Hebrew) [direct pdf] - http://www.israel613.com/books%5CKITZUR_SHULCHAN_ELIYAHU.CV.pdf

  • Project COTAR (online Responsa) - http://www.biu.ac.il/JH/Responsa/COTAR/
  • Online Responsa - http://www.tshuvos.com/
  • Halacha.com (online documents, e.g. Ketuba & Pruzbul) - http://www.halacha.com/
  • Eretz Yisrael Halacha - http://www.tsel.org/eretz/hindex.html

  • 613 Listings
    • Great online Book - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/toshba/hamitsvot/shaar-2.htm
    • Mitzva by Parsha - http://www.vharevnu.org/About%20Mitzvahs/Mitzvahs%20by%20Parsha.htm
    • Fancy listing - http://www.mitzvos613.org/Default.aspx
    • list of 613: http://www.jewfaq.org/613.htm
    • list of 613 (Rambam): http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/rambam613.html
    • list of 613 (rambam from ohr sameach) http://ohr.edu/yhiy/article.php/974

  • Tefillah
    • Online Siddurim & Machzorim - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/sidurim/shaar-2.htm
    • Slichot - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=160 (pdfs)
    • Kinot - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=131 (pdfs)


  • MORE BOOKS
  • JNUL (Jewish National and University Library Digitized Book Repository) - http://jnul.huji.ac.il/eng/. A special online viewer needs to be installed. The books are scanned in original versions. See this index: http://www.jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/books/html/bk_all.htm. E.g. 1553 Talmud - http://www.jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/books/html/bk2093513.htm
  • Online Torah Library - Part 1

    I hope to put this up as a full page soon. But until then, I need to put it in this blog. This is a list of online seforim that I have not yet put on the website. I plan to make a page to be a one stop seforim center.

    A more comprehensive list, but with many dead links, is here: http://www.halachabrura.org/alephlink.htm
    • Torah & Targum

      • Targum Search - http://cal1.cn.huc.edu/searching/targumsearch.html
      • Vocalized Targum side by side with Chumash text - http://www.mechon-mamre.org/i/t/u/u0.htm
      • Targum Pseudo-Jonathan - http://www.geocities.com/proptrek/pseudo-1.html
      • Targum Yerushalmi - http://www.geocities.com/proptrek/targyami.html
      • English translations of Targumim - http://www.tulane.edu/~ntcs/tgtext.htm
      • Megilat Esther with Torah Temimah (online in pictures) - http://www.shechem.org/torah/esther/index.html
      • Shir Ha Shirim (same) - http://www.shechem.org/torah/shir/index.html
      • Ruth (same) - http://www.shechem.org/torah/ruth/index.html
      • Bible Art by Gustave Dore (because we love him) - http://www.bygosh.com/bible/index.htm

    • Tanakh Commentaries - Midrash

      • Midrash Rabbah - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/tanach/raba/shaar-2.htm
        & another online version - http://www.tsel.org/torah/midrashraba/index.html
      • Tanchuma - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/tanach/tanhuma/shaar.htm & http://www.tsel.org/torah/tanhuma/index.html
      • Mekhilta - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=144 (pdfs) & http://www.biu.ac.il/JS/tannaim/
      • Sifra - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=145 (pdfs)
      • Sifrei - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=146 (pdfs)
      • Psikta D'Rav Kahana - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=166 (pdfs)
      • Tana D'Bei Eliyahu - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=154 (pdfs)
      • Yalkut Shimoni (Hebrew online) - http://www.tsel.org/torah/yalkutsh/index.html

    • Tanakh Commentaries - Rishonim & Achronim
      • ** Online Hypertext Mikraot Gedolot (with the below commentaries); http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/olam_hatanah/index.asp
      • Rashi - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/tanach/parshanut/rashi.htm
      • Ramban - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/tanach/parshanut/ramban.htm
      • Sforno - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/tanach/parshanut/sforno.htm
      • Rashbam - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/tanach/parshanut/rashbam.htm
      • Rashbam 2nd version - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=14 (pdfs)
      • Yaakov ben ha-Rosh - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=164 (pdfs)
      • Kitzur Alshich - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=80 (pdfs)
      • Chizkuni - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=43 (pdfs)
      • Rav David Tzvi Hoffman on Bereishit - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/tanach/hofman/tohen-2.htm
      • & Devarim - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/tanach/hofman-dvarim/tohen-2.htm
      • Ketav v'Kabbalah - (pdfs) Bereishit & Shemot - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=89
      • Ketav v'Kabbalah - (pdfs) Vayikra & Bamidbar - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=91
      • Ketav v'Kabbalah - (pdfs) Devarim - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=92
      • Yona Ibn Janach - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=138 (pdfs)
      • Gra - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=150 (pdfs)
      • Nechama Lebowitz Gilyonot - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/tanach/nehama.htm (word docs)
      • SPECIFIC COMMENTARIES PER BOOK OF TANAKH - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/tanach/parshant.htm

    • Apocrypha
      • Ben Sira - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/hasfarim/ben-sira-2.htm
      • Maccabees - http://www.tsel.org/torah/macab/index.html
      • The Whole She-Bang - http://www.tc.umn.edu/~jassen/index_files/Page431.htm {There's an enormous amount here)

    • Mishna
      • 72 Commentary Mishna ("Mikraot Gedolot" style) - pdfs (WOW!)
        • Zeraim - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=202
        • Moed - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=217
        • Nashim - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=219
        • Nezikin - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=218
        • Kodshim - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=224
        • Taharot - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=220

      • Mavo L'Mishna (many authors, e.g. Tosfot Yom Tov)(pdf) - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=216

      • Pirkei Avot
        • Avot D'Rebbe Natan - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/avot/tohen-2.htm
        • another - http://www.tsel.org/torah/avotrnatan/index.html
        • Hebrew/English - http://www.pirkeiavos.org/
        • Nice online text (Hebrew) - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/toshba/avot/1-2.htm
        • Machzor Vitry on Avot (pdfs) - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=81
        • Sfat Emet on Avot (pdfs) - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=116
        • English Trans. of Avot - http://www.thepresence.net/avotedit.asp
        • USCJ Mishna Yomi - http://mishnahyomit.org/avoth/ (word doc)

    • Talmud Bavli
      • Talmud terms - http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/toshba/brahot/milon-2.htm
      • Tractate Brachot in English (Neusner) - http://www.geocities.com/itzik18/Berachoth-Eng.txt

    • Dafyomi sites
      • Daf Yomi blog - http://dafnotes.blogspot.com/
      • Another - http://hearos.blogspot.com/
      • Gemara Brura - http://www.gemaraberura.com/hdafyomi.htm
      • Amud Yomi (mp3 & video files to teach the Gemara) - http://www.amudyomi.org/
      • Audio Dafyomi - http://www.dirshucleveland.com/recordings.asp?m=3.Chagiga
      • https://www.dafdigest.org/about.php?con=1
      • Steinsaltz on the Daf - http://www.steinsaltz.org/dynamic/DafYomi_details.asp

    Tuesday, October 02, 2007

    Some New Links

    I was doing an obligatory "who links to me" google check and I saw that the heilige Jacob Richman links to me. Thenks. Naturally, he has a whole mess of links on his page and I wanted to save some time by quickly putting them here:

    1. Torah analysis from the Daat.co.il online (Torah) encyclopedia. Holy Macaroni! This is huge! I'm going to have to take this whole page and incorporate it into eparsha. Ye-gads.
    2. Just one subset of Daat's site, and the least amazing, here is their linkpage (Hebrew).
    3. Rabbi Menachem Raab's Torah Portion Blog
    4. Rabbi Bechhofer's Video drashot (with an email signup list to receive a video a week)
    5. Amit's homepage, with a number of Hebrew language Torah links
    6. Bat Ayin Yeshiva writings
    7. Weeklytorah.com - online and Word doc - for parsha.
    8. Updated KBY Torah page.
    9. Jewishpath, from the Bnai-Noach institute. If I linked this on my site, it's been a while and I think they did some major upgrades.
    10. Rabbi Berzon's sermons online. I've used him often, usually when I find an essay during a keyword search.
    11. Oz Torah, by Rabbi Dr Raymond Apple AO RFD, Emeritus Rabbi of the Great Synagogue, Sydney.
    12. Learning Torah.org - seems to be recycled from other sites; not the greatest interface neither.
    13. Divrei-Tora.com (Hebrew)
    14. Torah Stories on the Parsha. For kids.
    15. Kipa.co.il (Hebrew) - seems to be brief Q&A (the font is small and it's late at night)
    16. Kehillas Torah (I may have this already; again, it's late)
    17. Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald's weekly NJOP Dvar Torah.
    18. Yeshiva Ohr Temimim. Chabad. Is this different from the official one?

    Wednesday, August 02, 2006

    Nachem - Other Texts

    Daat Encyclopedia has the alternative texts for Nachem, including Rav Goren's

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    More Tisha B'Av Resources

    From the Israeli Ministry of Education, for each holiday. For example, for Tisha B'av

    Kinah at the Hebrew Wiki

    In preparation of Tisha B'av, here is an overview from the Wiki of Kinah (Hebrew Text)

    And, an interesting passage from the Maharil about which kinot he said:

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    Monday, July 24, 2006

    Matot Masei 5766 - Why Half of Menashe

    Q. Why does Half of Menashe get a portion of the land requested by Reuven and Gad?

    A. I have a long way of proving this but just to get the pshat out in the open -

    This is the land that was distributed to them as part of the Lottery. That is why Reuven & Gad were just given their land, and just built their cities, while Menashe had to conquer it.

    Thursday, May 08, 2003

    Book of Samuel: Class #5, 05-08-2003

    Previous classes:
    (1) 3-27-2003 - Introduced the Map of Israel and the significant places. The action in Samuel is between three tribes: Judah, Ephraim, and Benjamin. These three tribes encircle the future (once and future) capital of Jerusalem.
    (2) 4-3-2003 - Went through the authorship of the Book of Samuel vis-a-vis the authorship of all the books of Tanakh. Main source was Talmud Bavli, Baba Batra 15b. Made a chart of each book of the Bible, & who wrote it.
    (3) 4-10-2003 - Necessary background to the Samuel is the Book of Ruth and Book of Judges. Spent time in chapter 17-21 in Judges.
    (4) 5-1-2003 - Finished up the Book of Judges background material. The stories are of violence, idol-worship, and grave immorality. Samuel, the author, gives one cause: no king.

    Class 5 went through the first line of Samuel (the pace may pick up) and discussed a collection of Midrashim about the character of Elkanah.
    Welcome!

    Torah to be comin'. I'd have named this torah.blogspot.etc but some doofus took the name 2 years ago and has not done anything with it...