Thursday 5 January 2012

The Talmud: Next Comes the Hyperlinks

«But now that breach has been filled, or so claims the publisher of HaMafteach, or the Key, a guide to the Talmud, available in English and Hebrew. It was compiled not by a white-bearded sage, but by a courtly, clean-shaven, tennis-playing immigration lawyer from the Bronx.»


NYT: An Index for the Talmud, After

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/nyregion/an-index-for-the-talmud-after-1500-years.xml

Shalom,
RRW

3 comments:

Mighty Garnel Ironheart said...

And barely a mention in the article of the Soncino Talmud's Index volume which, while not as glossy and sexy as this new book, is essentially the same thing.

micha said...

You mean like http://he.wikisource.org/wiki/%D7%AA%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%93_%D7%91%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%99 ?

Note how on Berakhos 2a, the word "seifa" takes you to the subsequent mishnah being quoted.

Garnel Ironheart said...

Well for online searching Hebrewbooks.org also has that feature.