Sunday, July 01, 2012

entire Reformatted Soncino Talmud

From my Inbox:
Siyyum Daf Yomi and Summertime.
A time for renewing our energies in learning Gemara and Torah.
If you aren't aware, we have free for downloading or reading online, the entire Reformatted Soncino Talmud (RST) in easy-to-read, two-column format.  It is an absolutely wonderful resource and a must for anyone who wants this classic and brilliant English translation of the Talmud at their fingertips.  Download on your PC, laptop, tablet, Ipad, etc. and even the  Kindle (for a slight fee, but that's Amazon's doing).  The RST is available at:
In addition, now available are many exciting and unique Eclectic Torah Compilations: monographs and resource works, also all free and available for downloading, reading, sharing and printing.  These include works on:
Hebrew Language
  • SHOROSHIM - Unique, comprehensive work on 3300 Hebrew Verb Roots in English Thesaurus format
Jewish Law and the Commandments 
  • ALL 613 COMMANDMENTS IN PROSE
  • LAWS OF CHARITY
  • LAWS OF PUBLIC PRAYER AND THE SHALIACH TZIBUR
  • LAWS OF IDOLATRY, SUPERSTITION, SORCERY AND THE OCCULT
  • LAWS OF THE SEFER TORAH
  • LAWS OF THE KORBAN PESACH - the sacrificial Paschal lamb
  • LAWS OF THE RED COW
The Bible with dialogue highlighted
  • BOOK OF ESTHER in dialogue format
  • BOOK OF RUTH in dialogue format
Translations
  • LAWS OF KINGS AND WARS - Translation of the final chapter of the unabridged version of Rambam's Mishne Torah
  • ORCHOS CHAIM  - Translation of Rabbeinu Asher's ethical work
OTHER CLASSIC WORKS:
Pirke Avos - The Chapters of the Fathers
  • PIRKE AVOS SYNTHESIZED - a new, easy-to-read format of this classic Mishna Tractate 
The Zohar
  • 837 NON-ESOTERIC PASSAGES FROM THE ZOHAR (primary work of Jewish Kabbalah) - very extensive and enlightening
Tehillim - Psalms
  • SHIMUSH TEHILLIM - Use of all 150 Chapters of Psalms for protective purposes against numerous calamaties, by Rav Hai Gaon 
Coming soon:
  • KEY NOTES ON KINNOS - For Tisha B'Av
  • INDEX TO LITURGICAL AND CEREMONIAL USAGES OF BIBLICAL CHAPTERS AND VERSES
Nice. What I'd really like to see them do is to apply the page by page html format, as it exists for most tractates, as already taken from the unspecified anti-Semitic website, and apply it to the remaining tractates, rather than only presenting it in individual PDFs for the whole masechta or even individual parts of masechtot.

Another nice idea, which a friend of mine does for himself, is to put the tzuras hadaf opposite the Soncino text.

Meanwhile, here is another interesting gemara resource, though not yet developed sufficiently. There is already a very nice Hebrew Wikipedia (wikisource) presentation of the gemara. Someone tried carrying it over to English, but with English text facing Hebrew text. See it here.

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