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Even if you have no previous computer experience, you'll find it easy to master
the Global Jewish Database. With the new version, 19+, you can:
- Search for a word, phrase, or expression in relevant texts. You can also
search for a wide variety of variant forms, specify combined search components,
etc.
- Using the hypertext links, you can locate and display related sources spanning thousands of years.
- Display on screen hundreds of classic texts.
- Print your search results.
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Responsa includes a
helpful user's guide, which makes it easy to master the program's numerous
sophisticated features.
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- Save your search results and other texts, in order to view them or print
them later with a word processor or use them in other searches.
- Display biographies of hundreds of responsa authors and other Talmudic
and post-Talmudic scholars from medieval times to the present.
- Calculate the gematria (numerical value) of any expression
of your choice, and find biblical verses or expressions with any specified
gematria.
- Compare parallel Talmudic and other texts.
- Display Torah texts which are mentioned by other Talmudic texts
with the click of a mouse (hypertext).
- Look up abbreviations in an online dictionary.
- Search for vocalized text (Nikud) in Tanach.
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Personal notes and links on the text.
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Display texts of your choice by manually typing in the reference of the
desired text.
- Display text of the Torah and commentaries
according to the weekly Torah portion.
- Display interface in
the following languages: in Hebrew (where Windows has Hebrew support),
English and French. All texts are in Hebrew.
- Encyclopedias - Encyclopedia of Talmudic Concepts, Biographies of
Talmudic Sages, Teachers and disciples of Talmudic Sages, and Encyclopedia
of Holiday Customs
- Dictionaries - Abbreviations Dictionary and Aramaic-Hebrew Dictionary.
- Natural Language search – similar to those available with internet
search engines.
- Tutorials with sound that demonstrate various important features of the
Responsa (complete version available in Hebrew only, partial version
available in English).
System Requirements:
The following hardware and software are necessary to run the Global Jewish
Database:
- Pentium IV or higher processor.
- 512 MB RAM or more.
- Hard Disk with at least 254 MB free disk space.
- DVD-ROM drive or USB port for a Disk on Key.
- Windows XP (SP3) or Vista or Windows 7.
- Screen resolution 1024
X 768.
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