Reference Tools

CD-ROMs
(available in the library only)

Bar Ilan's Judaic Library (Hebrew only)
Comprehensive searchable database of the Torah/Tanakh and rabbinical literature. Includes most of the corpus of Jewish law:

	Bible and Commentaries: Tanakh, Onkelos, Rashi, Rashbam, Ramban, Mitzudat Zion, Mitzudat David, Ralbag, Radak, Ibn Ezra
	Midrash: Seder Olam, Midrash Raba, Midrash Zuta, Pesihta Rabati, Midrash Tanchuma, Midrash Mishlei, Midrash Tehillim, and others
	Talmud: Mishna, Tosefta, Mesechtos Kitanos, Avos D'Rebbi Nosson, Talmud Bavli, Rashi, Tosefot Talmud Yerushalmi
	Halakhic Works: Ramban Mishna Torah, Tur, Even Ha'ezer, Orach Chaim, Choshen Mishpat, Yora Daya, Shulchan Aruch & Ramah Beit Yosef; Beit Yosef al Hatur, Mishna Brura & Biur halakha, Kitzur Shulhan Aruch
	Zohar
	Responsa Texts
	Rabbinical Biographies
	Halacha & Minhag
	Philosophy & Ethics

Encyclopedia Judaica (English)
Comprehensive resource for general Judaica information. Contains the complete text of the original 16-volume edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica, as well as the subsequent eight year books and two decennials, published in 1982 and 1992 respectively, along with selected updates and new feature articles. Text is enhanced by multimedia features, such as photographs, maps, tables and charts, film clips, slide shows and sound recordings.

Henkind Talmud Text Databank (Hebrew)
Fully searchable Talmud database published by the Saul Lieberman Institute and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Includes tractates of the Babylonian Talmud including full manuscripts, first printed editions, Cairo Geniza fragments and the Vilna edition. Critical notes to Talmud are in brackets.

Historical Atlas of the Holocaust (English)
Interactive CD-ROM that explores the experience of the Holocaust, including images of countries, ghettos, and forests as well as more than 230 full-color maps with accompanying text. Chronicles the history of the war from 1933 to 1945 and the makeup of postwar Europe.

Igros Moshe (Hebrew)
Contains all eight volumes of the complete Teshuvos of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. Contains the complete text of Igros Moshe, Derash Mosheh, Tanach with vowel points and taamim, Rashi on Chumash, Talmud plus Rashi and Tosafos, Mishnayos, Shulchan Aruch with Mechaber and Rama.

Judaic Classics Library (Hebrew)
Original Biblical, Talmudic, Halakhic, and Aggadic texts regarding Jewish law, lore and tradition. Contains search and retrieval software that links primary texts and commentaries, and allows for printing and exporting of text. Includes Tanakh, Babylonian Talmud, Rashi on Chumash, Rashi on Talmud, Aggadic Midrashim, Mishneh Torah, Talmud Yerushalmi, Talmud Bavli, Tosafot, Masehtot Ketanot, Zohar, Torah Commentaries (Rambam, Ohr ha-Chayim, Ba'al ha-Turim, Onkelos), Sifre Musar (Sha'are Teshuvah, Orhot Tsadikim, Mesilat Yesharim), Shulhan Aruch Or ha Hayim with Mishneh Berurah, Be'ur halakhah, Sha'ar ha-Tsiyun, Mekhilta, Sifra, Sifrei, Tosefta, Masekhtot Ketanot, Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat, Ketsot ha-Choshen, writings of the Maharal (excluding Gur Aryeh), R. Tsadok ha-Kohen mi-Lublin.

Judaic Press Tanakh (Hebrew and English)

Hebrew Tanakh

English Tanakh with Judaica Press translation by A.J. Rosenberg

Rashi's commentary on the Tanakh in English and Hebrew

Otsar HaHalakha VeHaminhag (Hebrew)
Collection of databases on halakhah and Minhag including:

Tanach Minukad

Mishnah Minukedet

Talmud Bavli

Mishneh Torah leRambam

Arba'ah Turim

Shulchan Aruch

Ba'er Haitev

Sha'arei T'shuvah

Mishnah B'rurah

Ben Ish Chai

Shulchan Aruch haRav

Shmirat haLashon
And many more sections

Soncino Classics Collection (English)

	Tanakh—complete text with English translation (Hebrew text of Chumash includes vowels and cantillation marks)
	Midrash Rabbah—Soncino English translation with footnotes and index
	Talmud—Soncino English translation with footnotes and index
	Zohar—Soncino English translation with footnotes and index
	Complete Hebrew and Aramaic text of the Talmud and Midrash Rabbah
	Tosafot on Talmud (Hebrew only)
	Rashi's commentary on Talmud (Hebrew only)
	Talmud Index—Searchable by word or phrase in Hebrew and English; Searchable by subject using the English subject index

The Stone Edition of the Chumash (Artscroll) (Hebrew and English)

Offers synchronized scrolling of Hebrew text with translation.

Anthologized commentary by a team of scholars under the editorship of Rabbi Nosson Scherman.

Hebrew/Aramaic texts of Rashi and Onkelos with hypertext to the Chumash.

Includes hypertext of Rashi's Torah footnotes.

Haftarot with translation and comments introducing the haftarah and related Torah reading.

The Five Megillot: Esther, Ruth, Shir HaShirim/Song of Songs, Eichah/Lamentations, and Kohelet/Ecclesiastes with a translation and commentary drawn from the Artscroll Tanakh Series.

Comprehensive index with nearly 1,500 hypertext entries to Chumash.

Talmudic Encyclopedia (in Hebrew)
A digest of halakhic literature and Jewish law from the Tannaitic period to the present, alphabetically arranged. Includes Rambam, Tur, Sha'arei Teshuva, Mishnah Berurah, Otzar Dinim, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch and others.

Treasure Chest of Jewish Knowledge (English)

"All About Judaism" section consists of three reference works—the Jewish Primer, the Dictionary of Jewish Biography, and the Encyclopedia of Judaism.

"Book of Legends" section is the Schocken Press English translation of the "Sefer Ha'Aggadah", a compilation and anthology of classical Rabbinic lore and literature, edited by Hayim Nahman Bialik and Y. Ravnitzky.

"CD-ROM Bible" is the complete Hebrew text and English translation of the Tanach, including Rashi's commentary on the Chumash (in Hebrew only).

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