Bar Ilan Responsa Project

The Bar Ilan Responsa Project (the Global Jewish Database) is a collection of Jewish texts in Hebrew, sold on CD and more recently on USB flash drive by Bar-Ilan University (in Ramat Gan, Israel).

[1] The database consists of one of the world's largest electronic collections of Jewish texts in Hebrew.

[2] The database also includes the Bible and the Talmud (with commentaries); articles about Jewish law and customs; Maimonides' Mishneh Torah and the Shulchan Aruch with main commentaries; Zohar, Midrashim, and the Talmudic Encyclopedia.

Using the hypertext links to locate and display related sources spanning thousands of years.

Display biographies of hundreds of responsa authors and other Talmudic and post-Talmudic scholars from medieval times to the present.