Anyone who has talked to me about Jewish education knows that one of my favorite things to complain about is the lack of availability of serious Jewish texts. Part of this is simply generational – I’m used to being able to access just about any information about just about anything at any time. The fact that Jewish texts which were printed a thousand years ago (and are therefore in the public domain) are not freely available still confuses me. Although it didn’t take long for the entire tanakh to make it online, and there are several sites dedicated to the books of individual achronim and rishonim, I’m much more interested in the midrashim and other tannaic literature. I have a growing list of useful resources online, and every so often I stumble across a new one. Today was one of those days, so I’ve decided to share the wealth. (One of these days I’ll assemble my links collection into a readable format and post it for people to see. Harass me if you really care and it’ll happen quicker).

tsel harim, a site I’d never even heard of before, has a torah library with lot of interesting texts, including midrash raba, avot de rabbi natan, mesilat yisrael (English, Hebrew, and Russian), and megilat ta’anit.

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