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Jewish Classic Virtual Library Source Texts


I , Meyer Katzper, am here presenting links to Judaic references in addition to Sefaria, which you probably are at, Sepharia site or click as needed.

For those who are fluent in Hebrew I recommend looking at babakama site on Judaica > , with URLs and short descriptions of each item.

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Everyone should possess a home copy of the basic Jewish Classics that can be referred to.

Nowadays everyone can have free online access to all the basic primary Jewish Classic sources.

We here provide the links for such an Online Classical Judaic Virtual Library.

Make these links your basic Judaic library of primary sources with English translations.

Siddur Hebrew only. Hebrew-English Prayer Book which is the Birnbaum HaSiddur HaShalem

Tanach (Jewish Bible)

Jewish Publication Society, 1917 Entire Tanach in English only

A Hebrew - English Bible According to the Masoretic Text and the JPS 1917 Edition Entire Tanach

Online entire Tanach in Hebrew with English and option to see Rashi's commentary in English. Entire Tanach

ORT Navigating the Bible is an online Bar/Bat Mitzva Tutor. It can be used for study and reference of the Chumash text.

Included are Torah translations taken from: The Living Torah by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan

Hebrew sources

https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/ויקיטקסט:ארון_הספרים_היהודי

http://kodesh.snunit.k12.il/i/tr/t0101.htm Click on the sentence number for some classical commentaries

https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/מקרא Can access modern commentary

http://daat.ac.il/ http://www.daat.ac.il/he-il/tanach text and classic commentaries

Chanting

The ORT site provides weekly Torah reading with Hebrew, translation, transliteration and chanting 2 or 3 lines at a time. The is rather cantorial. See http://bible.ort.org/intro1.asp?lang=1

Haftarot-- The Selections from Prophets that accompanies the weekly and holiday Torah readings.

The site Interactive Torah Trainer: Learn to Read the Torah at

http://www.chabad.org/library/howto/trainer_cdo/aid/1771208/jewish/Interactive-Torah-Trainer.htm#!32494/1351/32818/32883/v162

is chanted in a more standard way.

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Rabbinic Literature (Mishnah, Talmud, Rambam)

Ethics of the Fathers (Pirkei Avot)

English Pirke Avot

Hebrew Pirke Avot

Soncino Talmud This site has downloadable PDF files from the Soncino English translation of the Talmud

Rambam

Transmission of tradition

Rambam positive commandments

Rambam Negative Commandments

Mishneh-Torah English

Mishneh-Torah Hebrew

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Dig Deeper Resources.


Jewish Encyclopedia (1901-1906) Searchable full text of the first Jewish encyclopedia published in English.

Jewish Virtual Library Sources, documents and articles on all aspects of Judaism.

Overview of Major Classical Rabbinic Literature Now Extant

The Electronic Torah Warehouse is a Warehouse of an enormous number of links. However, there has been a serious attempt to organize the material.

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Hebrew Sources and extended references
Advanced Tanach

The full text of TaNaKh, https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/עמוד_ראשי Onkelos on the Chumash, Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, Bavli and Mishneh Torah of RaMBaM (in Hebrew) Snunit Use the search box to get multiple references.

ויקיטקסט:ארון הספרים היהודי See Content by categories מקרא מקראות גדולות קטגוריה:פרשני המקרא קטגוריה:מפרשי רש"י לתורה תרגומי המקרא משנה תלמוד בבלי תוספתא תלמוד ירושלמי מסכתות קטנות Also can enter https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/עמוד_ראשי Great collection. Some texts incomplete.

מקרא + תרגום Targum
Onkelus https://www.yutorah.org/rabbis-stanley-m-wagner-and-israel-drazin/

Hebrew Books.org Source for thousands of public domain Hebrew books.

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Advanced Hebrew & Aramaic Sources and extended references

Sepharia, a Source of Torah Talmud connections and Commentaries

When a section of text in Sepharia is selected and clicked on then a resources window opens on the right. Commentaries may be selected from these resources. On the Talmud this includes Steinsaltz commentary on the text.

Talmud Daf Yomi and many others see https://www.google.co.il Which provides a good web search.

https://www.ou.org/torah/#/dafyomi provides a variety of shiurim,

If you wish to study the Daf Yomi by yourself, at times it may be difficult to follow the talmudic logic. An excellent aid which provides an overview of the logic of the page is http://new.steinsaltz.org/todays-daf/

To see an overview about any other page go to https://steinsaltz.org/tractate-archive/

Study aids http://daf-yomi.com/AramicDictionary.aspx?PageId=265

The Chabad דבר-מלכות puts out an enourmous weekly (parsha) compendium of sources. The Steinsaltz trsnslation for the daf is included. It is a slow download and the one must use the upper right bookmark to get to the Talmud entry. https://chazak.co.il/דבר-מלכות-להורדה/ארכיון-דבר-מלכות

An online Aramaic edition of the Zohar is on the website of Stanford University Press at

https://www.sup.org/zohar/?d=Aramaic%20Texts&f=index

or

https://www.sup.org/zohar/?d=&f=Aramaic_Texts.htm

Major non-halachic Jewish thought works and essays about them;

https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/ספר_הכוזרי Kitab al Khazari (Kuzari) by Judah Halevi

Scholarly overview; https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/halevi/

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