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I have heard about this program called otzar hasefarim I think it’s on a usb does anyone know anything about it where to get it and is it pdf or digital?
There’s also Bar-Illan.
I suggest that someone should use this discussion
to publicize a list of all Torah Software that is available now.This would include all Torah Software that allows searches of:
Tanach with commentaries, Talmud with commentaries,
Midrashim, Mussar books, Halachah books with commentaries,
Rishonim, Acharonim, etc, etc, etc.UJM refers to a project of the Religious Zionist Bar-Ilan University with anything but mocking or derision? And actually treats their project as a serious thing of value? Moshiach must be among us.
To #2549492. I think Bar Ilan version is just very basic sforim.
CS: Any worse than Jastrow (who was Conservative)?
UJM: You never mentioned Jastrow in your posts before, so asking that is a misnomer. That said, it’s just as remarkable as if you praised Jastrow’s dictionary. Probably more remarkable, in fact, because you spend much more effort to mocking and deriding Zionists than Conservative & Reform. And I don’t recall you ever criticizing today’s Reform movement on its own; only in the context of comparing with other groups which claim to be frum but you dislike.
Mashiach must be among us.Does it matter who published the seforim data base?! Don’t you know that the first Shas was published by a gentile. a Christian printer Daniel Bomberg in Venice between 1520 and 1523 ?! So if you think there is some “chisoron” that zioniost put together a Torah database, you better get rid of your Shas?!!
There is a precedent of not liking useful seforim –
Mehndelsohn German translation was condemned – and now Artscroll translated way more
Steinsaltz Talmud – same. And Artscroll Talmud is also good, but has more visible problems.Maybe this is more an issue with translation, while straight publishing is less problematic?
Still, we are using chapters that were introduced by non-Jewish publishers.Jastrow was a Conservative Jew, but he lived long ago,
in a time when Conservative Jews were much better
than they are now.In our times, Conservative Jews intermarry with non-Jews every day.
In the times of Jastrow, Conservative Jews did not intermarry with non-Jews.
In our times, Conservative Jews do not keep kosher.
In the times of Jastrow, Conservative Jews did keep kosher.
And many other examples.
I am NOT attempting to defend Conservative Jews or Jastrow;
I am simply pointing out that Conservative Jews in the
time of Jastrow were not nearly as bad as they now.
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