The Friedberg Project for Talmud Bavli Variants

We are pleased to announce to Talmud Bavli learners and researchers the launch of the first version of

The Friedberg Project for Talmud Bavli Variants  -  "Hachi Garsinan".

The site is freely accessible through the Friedberg Portal: http://jewishmanuscripts.org/
The site is currently being developed, and upon completion it will contain all variant-readings of the entire Talmud Bavli, from all text-witnesses (the Cairo Genizah, manuscripts, early printings, etc.) that are available in public libraries and private collections all over the world. It will contain high-quality digital images of all original text-witnesses, accompanied by precise transcriptions of the text in the image.
The site is intended to serve the wide spectrum of all Bavli learners and researchers, from rabbis, through Yeshivah communities and Torah and Daf Yomi learners, as well as academic scholars.
The site will be developed and presented to the public in stages. In its first version announced today, are all the Cairo Genizah text-witnesses for the entire Talmud, accompanied by their images (about 9,000) and transcriptions, in the framework of a software that allows the display of all text-witnesses of a specific Talmudic text in parallel columns in small units. The identical excerpts in a specific text-witness and in the Vilna edition are marked, in order to spare the user the effort of comparing the texts. There are also other helpful functions such as Save and Print, as specified in the website.
The site is being developed and maintained by "Genazim" (currently "Genazim Digital"), as a joint venture of the "Friedberg Genizah Project" (FGP) and the "Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Society"(FJMS).
The transcriptions (including the visual ones) were edited by the "Genuzos" group.
The project is headed by Prof. Yaacov Choueka; Dr. Menachem Katz is the advisor for Talmudic research. More...