| There are two companies that are major forces in the Jewish software business,
Davka and Kabbalah.
You can send Email to Kabbalah Software and ask for their catalog (which they
will send by Email). They have several variations of Torah Scholar, none of
which seems to include the Talmud. Their Internet address is
[email protected].
For $50 Davka sells a CD-ROM with the texts of the T'nach, Talmud Bavli,
and Rashi on Chumash and Talmud Bavli. It includes search capabilities,
but no cross-referencing. They have CD-ROMs with more texts for more bucks.
The next reply is a description of Torah Scholar from the Kabbalah catalog.
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| The Best Torah Study Software
Torah Scholar and Talmud Scholar makes learning easier than ever!If you are a
PC user and have been looking for Torah-study software that you can actually
use, prepare to be amazed.
If you are a Mac user and you have been frustrated by products that dont tap
the Macs potential, your long wait is over.
The Torah Educational Software Scholar series is here.
These programs use hypertext to allow you to follow any thread wherever it may
lead, through the Parshiot, Tanach and soon the entire Talmud! And a hypertext
link is usually only a mouse-click away. You can refer to pictures that
literally illustrate the meanings of difficult passages. You can even add your
own comments and commentary to any letter of any word in the Tanach and Talmud!
Here are the details of these exciting products:
Torah Scholar
Torah Scholar is a unique hypertext-based study tool that finally makes it
easier to learn from a computer than from the printed page. Look at all these
features:
- The full text of the Chumash (Pentateuch) in both English and Hebrew
- Linear translation of Hebrew and English text
- "GoTo" by Chapter/Verse or by weekly portion
- Up to 10 windows (Mac) or 4 windows (PC) open at one time
- Four Hebrew fonts included
- Fully integrated note taking capabilities, with the ability to copy text
into notes and to export notes into other word processors
- Ability to create hypertext links between any note or picture and any letter
of the Hebrew or English text
- Included hypertext links to the 613 Mitzvot in the Torah
- Table of Contents of events hypertext-linked to the Torah
- Instant Concordance lookup of every word in the Torah
- Query capabilities on Hebrew text
- Full Gematria capabilities: calculate seven different gematriot on any
selected word or group of words, or use the Gematria Calculator
- Full Gematria dictionary to look up any Hebrew word with a given gematria,
as well as the ability to create and edit personal gematria dictionaries
- Ability to find hidden interval codes, roshei tevot, sofei tevot, and other
pattern searching methods (Mac only)
- Hypertext links to pictures; ability to add your own artwork (PCX on PC,
PICT on Mac)
- Full print capabilities with graphics
- Seven English fonts (PC only)
- Find feature with wildcard searches (PC only)
These are remarkable products from Torah Educational Software in Jerusalem. On
the Macintosh side they require a Mac Plus, SE, LC, Portable or Mac II running
System 6.X or System 7, with a hard disk. The PC versions require MS-DOS 3.0 or
higher, 640K RAM, a Microsoft-compatible mouse and 3 megabytes of free hard
disk space. They work with any Epson-compatible dot-matrix, HP LaserJet, HP
DeskJet or Postscript printer.
Torah Scholar for PC or Mac: $179 (list $189)
Torah Scholar Plus Rashi
All of the features of Torah Scholar, plus the full text of Rashi's Hebrew
commentary on Chumash. Requires 4 megabytes of free disk space. $219 (list
$229)
Bible Scholar Hebrew
Everything in Torah Scholar Plus Rashi, with the rest of Tanach (Rashi only
on Chumash.) Additional graphics files. Requires 6 megabytes of free disk
space. $239 (list $249), available March 1993
Bible Scholar English
Similar to Bible Scholar Hebrew, but with an English instant concordance rather
than a Hebrew one. Requires 7 megabytes of free disk space.$239 (list $249),
available March 1993
Torah Codes
Finds "hidden codes" in the Torah (Pentateuch.) Interval searches, begin and
end word searches, multiple search commands, with instant cross-references of
found codes to their verses in the Torah. $85 (list $89)
Torah Gematria
The Chumash text with an on-screen gematria calculator. Includes calculations
of seven different gematria types and it can search for any word in Chumash
with a given gematria value. $49
Talmud Scholar with Dictionary
Complete Babylonian Talmud with an on-line instant English Translation
dictionary. No CD-ROM required, the entire Talmud fits into only 15 megabytes
of free disk space! Hypertext capabilities and graphics included, including
biographies of Talmudic personalities.
$275 (list $289), available May 1993
All of the Scholar programs are built with expandability in mind. As additional
commentaries become available, they can be added to existing packages without
reloading the software. One day, a computer may replace dozens of seforim!
Torah Scholar has been endorsed by the Bostoner Rebbe Shlita, making it the
only computer program we have ever seen that has been endorsed by a major
rabbinic authority.
All of these programs are copy-protected on the PC, but not on the Mac.
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