jewishliturgy

A thought: As you all probably know, the OSP is working on developing a complete open-source TaNaKH. Although this was conceived as part of the siddur project, it seems like it could have many uses that have nothing to do with Jewish liturgy. For ... [More] example, it might be possible to develop an open-source biblical commentary, or to transcribe the texts of classical [Less]

Hi Efraim, I don't know whether I've already mentioned this, but I have developed a HebrewBible iPhone Application. The functionality of the app is described here: [link] The iTunes page (if you have iTunes installed on your computer) is here: [link]

The Book of Nehemiah is now complete. The next step is the complete transcription and proofreading of the translation of the Book of Psalms (Tehillim), which has quite a lot of import for the siddur. If you are interested in helping correct the (English) OCR-transcribed texts for Tehillim, please read the tutorial

Try the same search on Google Code also? I tried to download this one, but had some issues. I wouldn't put too much faith in it. It was last updated in 2006, and most handwriting does not have nikud. The last time I looked at hspell, it didn't support nikud and used Academy-spelling, which is not particularly useful for checking

Hi Aharon, Great list of projects! I already knew about the "Hebrew Open Source Fonts" project (I especially like the paleo-Hebew fonts). If you have a look at the project, you might also be interested in looking at the "History of the Hebrew Alphabet" presentation (in Hebrew with a cool set of illustrations) on one of the project pages:

Every now and again I do a search to see what other open source projects are out there that aspire to provide some benefit to Jewish practice. Here's what I found searching freshmeat.net and sourceforge with the keywords "Jewish" or "Hebrew." Please comment if you've used any of these and think they might provide a

Overall, it looks like a pretty good system. My one qualm is with the markup of vav-consecutive verbs. From a historical perspective, as well as from a tense/aspect perspective, the so-called imperfect with vav-consecutive is completely different ... [More] from a "regular" imperfect, so it may make more sense to mark it up as a distinct aspect than as an [Less]

The Leningrad Codex itself, that is. The "Westminster Leningrad Codex" is the Westminster Theological Seminary's digital transcription of the codex, which is the basis for our tanach text.

Ḥaḥam Nehemia Gordon of karaite-korner is on our Open Siddur Facebook Group. I messaged him this past summer about his Karaite Siddur and I'm hoping he'll still contribute it. If you look at the pdf of the siddur he prepared you'll aslo see an odd copyright notice (considering it's all 19th century

I have already sent a message to the contact address. Thanks,