Publication
Mechon Mamre – The Mamre Institute
September 28, 2015Mechon Mamre, or “The Mamre Institute,” makes available and searchable online a variety of classic Jewish texts in Hebrew, Aramaic, and in translation. Among these texts are the Hebrew Bible, Maimonides’ Mishne torah, the Mishnah and the Talmud. The texts are easily searchable in both Hebrew and latin characters, serving as an easily available research tool.
As it often happens online, primary sources on religious history are made available by religious groups themselves, as a way to share knowledge and tools, and also to foster religious observance.
The website, which is available at mechon-mamre.org, states:
“Our original main purpose in this site was to put before you (whether Jew or Gentile) the most accurate currently available version of the Mishneh Torah Code in its entirety, to provide you with guidance for its proper study and understanding, and to encourage you to actually observe its clear and brief formulation of the divine laws. But we soon realized that since the Oral Law and the Written Law are ultimately one and they should be learned and observed together, we needed to complete our online Torah-learning resources by adding the Hebrew Bible in various versions tailored to the needs of learners at differing stages in their learning.
Our version of Mishneh Torah in its Hebrew original has been carefully edited according to the majority of the Yemenite manuscripts, and we are certain that there is today no more accurate version of Mishneh Torah available either in print or for computer. Despite that, we continue to check the versions of the manuscripts for further refinements of our text.
There is much additional Hebrew documentation about us and our work elsewhere on this site.
If you have any questions or comments, write us! We intend to answer all real (non-junk non-virus) mail within a day or two; so if you do not hear from us within three days, please write again assuming that either your letter or our answer has been lost, which is hardly rare these days. Note that letters with attached programs that can be run and letters with huge attachments are automatically rejected. The hundreds of letters we get each month have helped us improve the site greatly, and we thank you for your on-going help: God bless you all!”
