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Questions asking for a recommended product, book, website, etc. Note that questions must have an objective answer; primarily opinion based questions are off-topic.
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Looking for a nice edition of Sefer Hasidim
I have a copy of Sefer Hasidim at home - it's a beautiful text, but my edition is terrible. The chapter/paragraph numbers don't correspond to those that are commonly in use, meaning that I cannot use …
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What are the most essential Jewish websites?
This is a good question: maybe we should put together one master list somewhere, indexed and with descriptions?
To those that others have already mentioned, I wish to add:
Mordechai Torczyner's Web …
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Tanach with grammatical text analysis
The only texts with which I'm familiar that do anything like this are Davidson's The Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon and the Old Testament Parsing Guide, by Beall, Smith and Banks. The first is …
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Looking to purchase a single-volume Mishna
I would really like to buy a copy of the Mishna that I can carry around with me. It absolutely needs to be in print (sorry, I'm not interested in digital versions) and it needs to be in a single volum …
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Printed/Online List of All Major Sugyas
I would like to see a printed or an online list of major sugyas from the Bavli - obviously, together with references (so that I can look them up for myself), but ideally also with a little bit of info …
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What is a good bilingual (English-Hebrew) concordance of the Tanakh and Talmud?
If you are using an iPhone, there is an exceptionally good app called HebrewBible, by Bill Clementson. It has the BDB lexicon in it, but unlike BDB it also contains a full concordance. You can search …
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Where can one get the Pri Yitzchak, a text discussing the 613 Mitzvot
You can find the entire text first forty pages online here, and then need to pay in order to download the rest. You don't need to register in order to get rid of that annoying pop-up: just click to en …
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Practical guide to the Brisker method in English?
There's also a very nice book called Understanding Reb Chaim by Rabbi Yonoson Hughes (Israel, 2010). In it, the author translates and provides extensive commentary on ten of the maamarot from Reb Chai …
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How do the English translations of the Mishnah vary?
This seems more like an opinion piece than an actual question-and-answer thing, but for what it's worth I think that Danby's translation greatly overshadows Neusner's, but have not seen Blackman's (no …
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What is a good mussar/personal growth sefer for women?
Outside of the Ashkenazi world, Chakham Yosef Chayyim (the Ben Ish Chai) wrote a beautiful personal growth manual for women, and one that is often studied by men as well. He wrote it in Judeo-Arabic, …
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Meforashim and Poskim on Mas. 'Avodah Zarah and forming a curriculum
To mention something that nobody else here appears to have mentioned, I would strongly recommend starting with the Mishna, rather than simply launching into Mishna + Gemara. Familiarise yourself with …
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History of the Mir Yeshiva
Can anybody recommend a good history of the Mir Yeshiva - specifically until the outbreak of World War II, but ideally even inclusive of the war years? Shaul Stampfer has an excellent history of Voloz …
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Online Mussar and Gemara Shiurim in Yiddish?
I have noticed that most resources for learning Yiddish are of a decidedly secular/conversational nature. Personally, I would rather immerse myself in the language by listening to a shiur (preferably …
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Pocket-size Talmud/Gemara
I have been printing my own for a while now: it's very cheap, ridiculously easy and extremely convenient.
Go to HebrewBooks.org and click the tab marked "Mishna/Shas" (link). Download the PDF that yo …
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Holocaust Responsa of Rav Ephraim Oshry
Due to the poor health of Lithuania's last Chief Rabbi, Rav Avraham Shapiro, and due to his death in 1943, many of the residents of Kovno Ghetto addressed their questions to Rav Shapiro's student, Rav …
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