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Bar Ilan Responsa Project
The Bar Ilan Responsa Project (the "Global Jewish Database") is a collection of Jewish texts in Hebrew, released on CD and more currently USB flashdrive by the Bar-Ilan University (in Ramat Gan, Israel).
Background.
The database consists of one of the world's largest electronic collection of Jewish texts in Hebrew.
It includes numerous works from the Responsa Literature (rabbinic case-law rulings).
The database also includes the Bible and the Talmud (with
includes only the Zohar, and a few works listed under Otzar HaMidrashim. However, the other sections contain many essential and important seforim.
Digital Text Software Packages DBS Master Library.
DBS rivals the Bar-Ilan Responsa project in size. It has less in the overall area of Halakha and fewer responsa, but rivals Bar Ilan's Reponsa project in: Jewish philosophy and Mussar. To date, the latest Bar Ilan and the latest DBS versions are comparable mostly, in terms of number of texts in these areas. Bar