From: Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: English Translation of Rabbinic Literature
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 23:55:30 -0500
Does anyone know of freely accessible web sites that one can use to read
literature such as the tractates of Mishnah or Talmud, in English. For
example, how would one find an English version online of Yebamot or
Pesahim?
Thank you,
Dale Noonan
Arutz 7, November 27
THE DAILY PAGE
For the first time, the entire Babylonian Talmud appears on the
internet - in the original Vilna edition format. Rabbi Dovid Kraus
and Josh Itzkowitz of Hillside, New Jersey created and executed the
idea over an eight-month period, scanning each of the more than 5,400
pages of the Talmud into .gif files and uploading them onto the
internet (e-daf.com). Rabbi Kraus informed Arutz-7 that when he
realized that the Talmud's text was available on the internet, but
not in the format to which most Talmud students are accustomed, he
decided to make his contribution: "Josh Itzkowitz then took upon
himself this labor of love, and his merits are being racked up by the
minute, as E-Daf is being used all the time, from all over the
world... The first time I viewed the list of all the far-off places
where people were signing on from, I cried with tears of happiness."
The site is also accessible from <http://www.dafyomi.org/>, which
contains a collection of resources for learning the Daf Yomi, the
daily page of Talmud studied worldwide.