For cellio, and anyone else deeply into the Talmud:

[jducoeur]

Since I suspect you aren't yet following the mozilla_exts feed, check out this entry, which starts out: "Combining the power of Firefox, Google and the Mechon Mamre textlibrary, this extension allows you to search the Hebrew texts ofTana"ch, Mishna, Talmud Bavli, Talmud Yerushalmi, Tosefta and MishnaTorah. You can search as broadly as all of these sources or asspecifically as a single book of Tana"ch, a single tractate of Mishnaor a single set of Halachot of the Mishnah Torah." Which I suspect means significantly more to you than it does to me...

Comments

[zachkessin.livejournal.com]

That is very cool.

Just in terms of what is what, Tacha''ch is the hebrew bible, Mishna is a set of teachings put together about 200ce. The Talmud is commentary on the mishna and it was written between about 400-600 ce. The Mishna Torah is a code of Jewish Law that was put together by the Rambam (Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon) in Cairo about 1175CE.

THe hebrew layout on screen is enough for me to find it useful. Though my keyboard at home and at work have hebrew on them.

[cellio]

Online searchable talmud etc... as a browser extension?! Thank you. After I got over the initial WTF? and checked it out, I agree that it's quite cool. (I have a searchable library at home on CD, with not exactly the same contents, but portability is handy too.) And the "use this widget to type Hebrew even if you're not doing a search" side-effect is quite useful.

Tanach = bible; it's an acronym for Torah (five books of Moses), Nevi'im (Prophets), and K'tuvim (writings -- this is stuff like Chronicles, Judges, etc -- everything that's not one of the other two).

There are two talmuds, Babylonian (= Bavli) and Jerusalem. The former is more complete and is what's generally followed, but the latter serves as an additional source and sometimes feeds in new information.