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<h1 style="color:#832525; font-size: 1.6em">עַל הַתּוֹרָה וְעַל הָעֲבוֹדָה וְעַל גְּמִילוּת חֲסָדִים</h1>
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<h3 id=AdvisoryBoard>ועדה מייעצת</h3>
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	<li><span class=link title="עורך של מפעל רש&quot;י השלם ועורך של מהדורות רבות של ראשונים">הרב אביגדור אריאלי</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="מחנך דגול ומייסד רשת בתי ספר ברקאי">הרב דן בארי</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="פרופסור ודיקן לשעבר בבית ספר ללימודים מתקדמים על שם ברנרד רוול בישיבה אוניברסיטה">פרופסור דוד ברגר</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="חתן פרס ישראל, פרופסור אמריטוס בחוג להיסטוריה של עם ישראל באוניברסיטה העברית">פרופסור אברהם גרוסמן ז"ל</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="פרופסור לתנ&quot;ך באוניברסיטת בר-אילן">פרופסור יונתן גרוסמן</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="פרופסור למחשבת ישראל, דיקן, רקטור, ונשיא לשעבר של מספר מוסדות">פרופסור כרמי הורוביץ</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="פרופסור אמריטוס בחוג למחשבת ישראל באוניברסיטה העברית">פרופסור זאב הרוי</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="רב אמריטוס של בית כנסת אוהב שלום">הרב ירמיהו וולברג</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="עורך כתביו של רבו, בעל השרידי אש, ר&quot;מ בישיבת היכל אליהו, ופרופ' למשפט עברי באוניברסיטת הסורבון">הרב אברהם אבא וינגורט</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="מחנך, מתכנת, ומפתח של טקסט-סטודיו">הרב ניסן זיסקין</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="מייסד ונשיא גשר, יושב ראש קרן קהילות">הרב דניאל טרופר</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="פרופסור למקרא וסגן דיקן בבית ספר ללימודים מתקדמים על שם ברנרד רוול בישיבה אוניברסיטה">פרופסור מרדכי כהן</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="ראש כולל ארץ חמדה בירושלים ואב&quot;ד &quot;ארץ חמדה - גזית&quot;">הרב יוסף כרמל</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="מייסדת ועומדת בראש תוכנית מקרא ופרשנות במדרשת מת&quot;ן">ד"ר ברינה לוי</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="ראש ישיבת רמז לשעבר ורב אמריטוס של קהילת ישורון בני יורק">הרב יחזקאל לוקשטיין</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="מחנך יהודי מוערץ, הכוח החלוצי מאחורי החינוך התורני באינטרנט">הרב מנחם ליבטאג</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="רב קהילת 'אוהל יונה מנחם' בבית שמש, ראש בית מדרש 'תמיד', ר&quot;מ בישיבת אורות שאול ובמדרשה בבר-אילן">הרב מאיר ליכטנשטיין</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="פרופסור אמריטוס בחוג למקרא באוניברסיטת חיפה">פרופסור ישעיהו מאורי ז"ל</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="ראש ישיבת הר עציון ומחבר ספרים ומאמרים רבים על תנ&quot;ך"> הרב יעקב מדן</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="מייסד ודיקן ישיבת ראשית ירושלים, רב אמריטוס של בית כנסת צעירי ישראל בסטטן איסלנד">הרב יעקב מרקוס</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="מעורכי פירושי רבנו חננאל לתלמוד">הרב אליהו סולובייצ'יק</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="פרופסור אמריטוס להיסטוריה יהודית וספרות רבנית">פרופסור חיים סולוביצ'יק</span></li>
	<li><a href=#letter-Simon data-toggle=my-modal title="פרופסור אמריטוס במחלקה לתנ&quot;ך באוניברסיטת בר-אילן"> פרופסור אוריאל סימון</a></li>
	<li><span class=link title="פרופסור אמריטוס להיסטוריה יהודית באוניברסיטת הרוורד">פרופסור דב ספטימוס</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="מחנכת נערצת">הרבנית מרים עמיטל</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="פרופסור לתלמוד באוניברסיטה העברית">פרופסור שמחה עמנואל</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="מייסדה של המכללה לבנות בירושלים">הרב יהודה קופרמן ז"ל</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="ראש ישיבה בישיבת רבינו יצחק אלחנן בישיבה יוניברסיטי וראש כולל עליון על שם ברן">הרב מיכאל רוזנצווייג</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="מנהיג קהילתי מוערץ ועמוד התווך של אינספור ארגונים יהודיים">מר קורט רוטשילד ז"ל</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="רב המרכז האקדמי לב (JCT), רב המועצה האזורית גוש עציון, ראש עמותת סולמות">הרב יוסף צבי רימון</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="פרופסור אמריטוס ללשונות שמיות בבית ספר ללימודים מתקדמים על שם ברנרד רוול בישיבה אוניברסיטה"> פרופסור ריצ'רד שטיינר</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="הרב הראשי לירושלים, ראש מכון הלכה ברורה ובירור הלכה">הרב אריה שטרן</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="רב ומחנך דגול, ראש הישיבה המייסד של ישיבת שעלבים">הרב מאיר שלזינגר</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="ראש ישיבת ישיבת הסדר מאיר הראל במודיעין">הרב אליעזר שנוולד</span></li>
	<li><span class=link title="מייסדת ועומדת בראש מדרשת מודיעין, מלמדת תנ&quot;ך במכללת תלפיות ומכון מופת"> ד"ר מלכה שנוולד</span></li>
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<h3 id=Chairpersons>יו"ר אתרי תורה</h3>
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	<li>מיכאל הוכשטיין</li>
	<li>יונתן קושיצקי</li>
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<h3 id=LettersofEndorsement>מכתבי המלצה</h3>
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	<li><a title="Director of the Jesselson Institute for Advanced Torah Studies at Bar Ilan University, Former Day School Principal in US and Australia" href=#letter-Altshul data-toggle=my-modal>הרב שמעון אלטשול</a></li>
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	<li><a title="Tanakh Department, Ma`ayanot Yeshiva High School, Teaneck, NJ, Adjunct Professor at Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education" href=#letter-Goldmintz data-toggle=my-modal>הרב ג'יי גולדמינץ</a></li>
	<li><a title="Chair of Chumash Department, The Frisch School" href=#letter-Goldfischer data-toggle=my-modal>הרבנית יעל גולדפישר</a></li>
	<li><a title="Rosh Batei Midrash and Academic Director of Matan and Senior Lecturer in Tanakh at Herzog College" href=#letter-Ziegler data-toggle=my-modal>ד"ר יעל זיגלר</a></li>
	<li><a title="Principal, Maimonides Elementary School" href=#letter-Saltzman data-toggle=my-modal>הרב דוד זלצמן</a></li>
	<li><a title="Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, Maggid Shiur at Ohel David and Shelomo" href=#letter-Hasson data-toggle=my-modal>הרב רוני חסון</a></li>
	<li><a title="Head of School, YULA Girls High School" href=#letter-Lieberman data-toggle=my-modal>הרב אברהם ליברמן</a></li>
	<li><a title="Dean, Ida Crown Jewish Academy, and Rabbi, Congregation K.I.N.S of West Rogers Park, Chicago IL" href=#letter-Matanky data-toggle=my-modal>הרב לאונרד מטנקי</a></li>
	<li><a title="Tanakh scholar and author, Chairperson Emeritus of Bar Ilan University Bible Department" href=#letter-Simon data-toggle=my-modal>פרופסור אוריאל סימון</a></li>
	<li><a title="Principal, North Shore Hebrew Academy Middle School, Great Neck, NY" href=#letter-Kobrin data-toggle=my-modal>הרב ג'פרי קוברין</a></li>
	<li><a title="Principal, SAR Academy, Riverdale NY" href=#letter-Krauss data-toggle=my-modal>הרב בנימין קראוס</a></li>
        <li><a title="Tanakh Department Chair, Ramaz Upper School" href=#letter-Krupka data-toggle=my-modal>גברת מרים קרופקה</a></li>
        <li><a title="Gemara Ramit and Matmidot Scholars Coordinator, Midreshet Lindenbaum" href=#letter-Rock data-toggle=my-modal>הרבנית דינה ראק</a></li>
	<li><a title="Chair, Rebecca Ivry Department of Jewish Studies and Director, Legacy Heritage Jewish Educators Project, Stern College for Women" href=#letter-Rabinovich data-toggle=my-modal>פרופסור דינה רבינוביץ</a></li>
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<h3 id=Founders>מייסדים</h3>
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	<li><b>ALHATORAH.ORG</b> הוקם על ידי <a href="mailto:support@alhatorah.org" rel="external" class="mail">הרב הלל ונעימה נובצקי</a> וילדיהם, יונתן, אביבה, אריאלה, ויהודה. הלל הוסמך לרבנות בישיבת רבנו יצחק אלחנן של ישיבה אוניברסיטה, וסיים תואר שני בהיסטוריה יהודית של ימי הביניים בישיבה אוניברסיטה, ודוקטורט במקרא באוניברסיטת חיפה. נעימה סיימה תואר שני במקרא בישיבה אוניברסיטה, ומלמדת במוסדות תורניים בארץ ישראל.</li>
	<li>העיצוב והממשק המקורי של האתר הם פרי יצירתו של יונתן נובצקי.</li>
	<li>תוכן האתר הוא תוצר של מאמץ שיתוף פעולה עולמי ומתמשך של תלמידי חכמים, חוקרים, מורים, ובעלי בתים.</li>
	<li>למידע נוסף על השתתפות בפרויקט זה, נא <a data-aht=page href="About:Contact Us/ContactUs/he">צרו קשר</a>.</li>
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<h3 id=Guardians>מייסדים</h2>
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	<li>לעילוי נשמת <a href="http://www.aish.com/jw/s/48939877.html">מרים ודב הוכשטיין ז"ל</a></li>
	<li>משפחות קושיצקי וגיטלר</li>
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<h3 id=Partners>שותפים</h2>
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	<li>וולף ז"ל וג'יין וייס וקרן אפלבאום</li>
	<li>דניאל ודבורה שוורץ</li>
        <li>בעילום שם</li>
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<h3 id=Benefactors>נדבנים</h2>
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	<li>לזכרם האהוב של "אוֹמָה" <a href="https://media.alhatorah.org/Hespedim/Hesped_for_Els_Bendheim_by_her_daughter_Debra_Eisenberg.pdf">אלס</a> ו"אוֹפָּה" <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-1997-05-19/html/CREC-1997-05-19-pt1-PgE957-2.htm">צ'ארלס ה. בנדהיים ז"ל</a></li>
	<li>ד"ר אברהם וד"ר חיה נובצקי</li>
	<li>רב הלל ונעימה נובצקי</li>
	<li>ג'ייקוב ואידי קופייצקי</li>
	<li>מיכאל וג'ודי קייזר</li>
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<h3 id=Patrons>פטרונים</h2>
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	<li>דבורה אפלבוים</li>
	<li>ד"ר אברהם וחנה גרינברג</li>
	<li>משה וארלין קופייצקי</li>
	<li>דוד ורות שרייבר</li>
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<h3 id=Sponsors>ספונסרים</h2>
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	<li>פרד וסוזן אהרמן</li>
	<li>ד"ר יוסף ומרילין דנטו</li>
	<li>איתיאל ולביאה פורמן</li>
	<li>דוד וג'ויס פרידמן</li>
	<li>ג'ף וקרוליין קופייצקי</li>
	<li>הרב יוחנן ופראן קופייצקי</li>
</ul>

<h3 id=Supporters>תומכים</h2>
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	<li>לעילוי נשמות יוסף ושולמית אביבי ז"ל</li>
	<li>אלי ואיווה גנואור</li>
	<li>רונלד ואדל טאובר</li>
	<li>טוביה וגייל נובצקי</li>
	<li>הרב יונתן ואילת רבינוביץ</li>
	<li>רפי ויונית שור</li>
</ul>

<h3 id=Contributors>תורמים</h2>
<ul>
	<li>דוד וקרן אייזנר</li>
	<li>הרב ג'רד ושרית אנסטנדיג</li>
	<li>קרן הרולד ודורה אנגלשטיין</li>
	<li>הרב רוברט ווירג'יניה בייאר הירט</li>
	<li>ד"ר אלן ודינה בירנבוים</li>
	<li>בארי בסט</li>
	<li>סת' ורות ברקוביץ</li>
	<li>יוג'ין וג'ין גלואק ז"ל</li>
	<li>ד"ר בני ונדין גזונדהייט</li>
	<li>הרב גד דישי</li>
	<li>הרב יהודה ושושנה הלפרט</li>
	<li>ד"ר וולטר ואדל וואסר</li>
	<li>אנדרו בורודך ורחל וולף</li>
	<li>מאיר ויינגרטן ז"ל</li>
	<li>ג'יי ודבורה זכטר</li>
        <li>הרב לארי ונחמה טייטלמן</li>
	<li>דוד ואינה טרופר</li>
	<li>רבקה ואבי כ"ץ</li>
	<li>שלמה כ"ץ ורעייתו</li>
	<li>לרי וקרן מליצקי</li>
	<li>ד"ר ארי וד"ר שושנה מרמלשטיין</li>
	<li>הרב אהרן ומינדי מרקוס</li>
	<li>ד"ר הוורד וסטייסי נתנסון</li>
	<li>מלכי וד"ר מאיר סיננסקי</li>
	<li>נחום ושירה פרנס</li>
	<li>מרטין ואירין קאופמן</li>
	<li>סטיבן קופייצקי</li>
	<li>רש"י וד"ר עדינה קור</li>
	<li>מרים קרופקה</li>
	<li>הרב פינחס ובלימה רוזנטל</li>
	<li>הרב גדעון רוטשטיין ואליזבעט הולנד</li>
	<li>ארטור ודורות'י ריטהולץ</li>
	<li>גדעון ושרה שור</li>
	<li>קרן משפחת שייקין</li>
	<li>ג'ק ומרטין שנקר</li>
</ul>

<h3 id=In-Kind>מוסדות</h2>
<ul>
	<li>משרד עורכי דין מיתר (תודה מיוחדת לעורכי הדין דוד גלאט, דוד מירצ'ין, ואנתוני הרמן)</li>
	<li>מוסד הרב קוק (תודה מיוחדת לרב יוסף אליהו מובשוביץ)</li>
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<p style=text-align:center>למידע כיצד לתרום נא לחצו <a data-aht=page href="About:Donations">כאן</a>.</p>
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<h1>Rabbi Shimon Altshul, Director of the Jesselson Institute for Advanced Torah Studies at Bar Ilan University</h1>
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<p lang=he dir=rtl style=margin:0>י' מרחשוון, תשע"ב</p>
<p>Dear Rav Hillel,</p>
<p>I thoroughly enjoyed seeing you again and being introduced to <strong style=font-variant:small-caps>AlHaTorah.org</strong>. While a bit daunting at first, the site impressed me as being a product of unusual erudition, pedagogical skill, and painstaking effort. You have clearly invested your formidable learning and teaching experience in this creative venture, which has the potential to serve as a significant resource for teachers and students alike, and, in time, could revolutionize the teaching – and learning – of <span class=transliterate>Limudei Kodesh</span>.</p>
<p>While I am no longer on the “front lines” of day school education, I would be happy to advise you if you feel I can be of help. Incidentally, while we did not discuss it, a Hebrew version for Israelis is certainly a <span class=transliterate>desideratum</span>.</p>
<p>B'hatzlacha</p>
<p>Shimon</p>
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<div>Rav Shimon Altshul</div>
<div>Director</div>
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<h1>Professor Robert Aumann, Nobel Prize Laureate (2005)<br/>
Center for the Study of Rationality at Hebrew University</h1>
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<h1>Mrs. Yael Goldfischer<br/>
Chumash Department Chair, The Frisch School</h1>
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<p style=margin:0;text-align:right>December 31, 2020 / 16 Tevet 5781</p>
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<p>We have been using ALHATORAH for the past few years in several of our Chumash classes.  This year with the transition to online learning, most of our teachers and students have been using ALHATORAH in their daily Chumash lessons.</p>
<p>ALHATORAH is easy to use and contains power tools for sophisticated and active Torah learning.  My students are able to find and study from a multitude of parshanim. Their independent work as a result has been enhanced, as now they can access commentaries that were not easily available online in the past.  Students are able to use tools such as the concordance, BDB, Tanakh Lab to find parallel texts and similar phrasing within different biblical texts.</p>
<p>My students know that I love learning with ALHATORAH and I'm so thrilled that they are becoming lifelong learners and gaining skills because of this phenomenal online learning website.</p>
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<h1>Rabbi Jay Goldmintz<br/>
Ma`ayanot Yeshiva High School</h1>
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<p style=margin:0;text-align:right>December 27, 2017 / 9 Tevet 5778</p>
<p>Dear AlHaTorah.org,</p>
<p>Some of us have been waiting years for technology to catch up to teaching. By this I mean that databases are certainly a valuable tool, but Tanakh teaching is all about interacting with the text itself, exploring it, analyzing it and doing the same with its commentaries. AlHaTorah is one of the few online resources I have encountered to aspire to do that in a meaningful and educational way.</p>
<p>The ever-growing list of resources on the AlHaTorah websites, from the concordance and dictionary to the analytical tools to the expanding work on commentaries, are all invaluable aids for teachers to use for their own preparation as well as enabling students to become more independent learners. Some of the information, such as the description of the commentaries and their methodologies are simply not available elsewhere in a form that is easily accessible to high school students. The concordance is a book that students have heard about but seldom been able to use on their own, and certainly few of us have ever had a class set that all students could look at simultaneously. The <i>parshah</i> topics that are explored and carefully summarized are masterful collections that students can learn on their own if necessary, making just the right combination of a helpful crutch combined with an impetus to learn the texts in their original.  The <i>Mikraot Gedolot</i> text preserves some of the authentic and aesthetic feel of the printed page together with the flexibility of contemporary hypertext, allowing students to feel at home in both worlds. Using art as a form of parshanut has always been an interest of mine, and I think it is not only a valuable teaching tool in its own right but can also speak to the particular learning style of a specific group of students whose needs have not always been addressed coherently.</p>
<p>I can tell you that today alone in my classes at Ma`ayanot, I experienced the following: a student asked me the meaning of a difficult word in a <i>pasuk</i> we were learning, and rather than give her the answer I directed her to the dictionary where on her own she discovered the root, the possible meanings and was able to decipher the nuances of the verse herself. Another student loved her first real encounter with art as parshanut that we did in class, and I was able to direct her to the treasure trove on the site for her to explore on her own. In another case, I was able to find and present a particular commentary that is not easily found elsewhere in books or in other databases. I cannot say that these are all daily occurrences, but neither can I say that I would have had as rich a day without access to the website.</p>
<p>In short, this venture has wonderful potential for helping give a contemporary feel to learning Torah for a generation of teachers and students who are as fluent and fluid with technology as they are with texts. The educational community and the community of learners look forward to your continuing contribution to Tanakh study – להגדיל תורה ולהאדירה.</p>
<p style=margin-top:1em>With best wishes,</p>
<p>Rabbi Jay Goldmintz Ed.D</p>
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<h1>Dr. Henry Hasson</h1>
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<p style=margin:0;text-align:right>July 12, 2019 / 9 Tammuz 5779</p>
<p>Dear Rav Hillel Novetsky,</p>
<p>I am sending you a note with Hakarat Hatov to thank you and your family and everyone that works on AlHaTorah. When I first saw it, I wondered if it was just yet another website with a digital version of Torah. However, once I started taking advantage of the amazing tools and resources, it became clear that this is a unique and much needed site. I have been using your site for several years now and it is an incredible learning and teaching tool. I am especially grateful for the incredible new tools you keep adding in the Mikraot Gedolot and the advanced concordance and search functions.</p>
<p>I have given many classes based on your source sheets and commentary sheets with an amazing list of references / sources.  Showing students your commentator timeline and even using the Shas Gadol to easily explain a section of Gemara is invaluable.</p>
<p>Checking the study topics every week before Shabbat has really enhanced my thinking about the Parashah far beyond what any weekly Devar Torah or Parashah sheet can do.  My kids now all now that before asking me for help with their school assignments they should first ask AlHaTorah!</p>
<p style=margin-top:1em>Thank you for providing this incredible and unique resource,</p>
<p>Ronnie</p>
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<h1>Rabbi Jeffrey Kobrin, Principal<br/>
North Shore Hebrew Academy Middle School</h1>
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<p style=margin:0;text-align:right>November 29, 2011 / 3 Kislev 5772</p>
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<p>I was extremely excited recently to have the chance to preview a new web resource, <a href=http://AlHaTorah.org rel=external><strong style=font-variant:small-caps>AlHaTorah.org</strong></a>.  In a world which is, <span class=transliterate>Baruch Hashem</span>, rapidly becoming inundated with Torah internet resources of varying degrees of accessibility, it was a true pleasure to find a site that brings together so many aspects of <span class=transliterate>limud Torah</span> and technology in an utterly unique way.</p>
<p>As a school principal, I am constantly on the lookout for resources to share with teachers seeking to prepare lessons; for parents looking to understand what their children are learning; and for students preparing <span class=transliterate>Divrei Torah</span>. &#160; <span style=font-variant:small-caps>AlHaTorah.org</span> provides a go-to source for all three.</p>
<p>Even those who are able to utilize the classic sources in the original will benefit from this site, as it brings together a range of perspectives and sources that would take a stack of books and sources to otherwise collect.  I am particularly intrigued by the social media potential in the site, which would foster dialogue on topics of Torah between students of all ages and backgrounds.</p>
<p>I see <span style=font-variant:small-caps>AlHaTorah.org</span> as a resource with remarkable potential for myself as a student of Tanakh, for the teachers under my supervision, and for the parents and students in our school community.  I am excited to watch the site and its influence grow in the months and years to come.</p>
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<div>Rabbi Jeffrey Kobrin</div>
<div>Principal</div>
<div>North Shore Hebrew Academy Middle School</div>
<div>Great Neck, New York</div>
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<h1>Rabbi Binyamin Krauss, Principal, SAR Academy</h1>
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<p>Dear Rabbi Novetsky,</p>
<p>Thank you for taking the time to show me the prototype for the Torah Website project you are working on.  As a growing learner, a teacher, and an administrator at a Jewish day school, I must tell you that I was enthralled by the potential of this project, and my only disappointment was learning that I can’t start using it, and recommending it to others, tomorrow.  By the nature of the relatively small market for Jewish studies, finding substantive, broad, and sophisticated resources for Torah learning and teaching is a big challenge.  While our secular teachers have been able to bring the collective knowledge of great experts into their classrooms and lesson preparation, Limudei Kodesh teachers are much more limited.  I have no doubt that if the breadth that you brought to Shemot Perek 18 would be available for the entire Torah, it would have an immediate impact on the kind of learning that could take place in our classrooms.</p>
<p>The structure that you developed in your prototype is comprehensive, but organized in a way that is not overwhelming.  The availability of accessing primary sources allows for serious learning and inquiry for independent learners, as well as teachers for use in classrooms at all levels.  The modern scholarship and references to the arts will allow students with multiple talents, interests, and passions, to find their path to relating to our text.  The web 2.0 tools embedded into the site will allow for conversations to take place that could potentially create an interactive global beit midrash that, as far as I am aware, does not yet exist.</p>
<p>If such a resource were to exist, we would certainly be prepared to pay an annual subscription fee to make it available to our staff.</p>
<p>If there is anything I can do to help you bring this project to fruition, please let me know. This is something that is worthy of real investment (and something that, in my opinion, should eventually be able to sustain itself). Of course, if you visit the US, I would be happy to have you present to our staff, so that their input can help you further develop this.</p>
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<div>Rabbi Binyamin Krauss</div>
<div>Principal</div>
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<div>655 West 254th Street</div>
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<h1>Ms. Miriam Krupka, Tanakh Department Chair, Ramaz Upper School</h1>
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<p dir=rtl style=margin:0>March 17, 2014</p>
<p>Dear Rabbi Novetsky,</p>
<p>As a department chair at the Ramaz Upper School, I am consistently on the lookout for materials that can contribute to curriculum organization and expansion. The clarity, structure and comprehensiveness of alhatorah.org is a teacher's dream. I have directed many new, as well as veteran, teachers to the site for its helpfulness in its step-by-step unpacking and analysis of a topic. With the overwhelming amount of content that is available for the teaching of any given piece of text, as well as the lack of a standardized "textbook" such that is available for secular studies, we have benefited enormously from the site's honing in on the few central axes upon which a course can be built and guiding its readers/teachers/students down the often complex road of commentators and analysis. I have used the site to prepare new courses as well as define, clarify and develop previous courses.</p>
<p>In addition, over the past few years, interdisciplinary learning has become an integral component of the Jewish Studies' curriculum at the Ramaz Upper School. Involved coordination with the Art, History and English departments has become a central part of the method in which we encounter various texts in Torah and Navi. AlHaTorah.org, with its references to interfaith and interdisciplinary thought in many of its topic presentations, has been an invaluable source. In particular, my students enjoyed a spirited discussion and analysis of the sale of Yosef in art and the contrasting images that depict the sale.</p>
<p>What a valuable investment of time and effort by your contributors! יישר כחכם and keep up the good work! Looking forward to seeing the site's continued growth!</p>
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<div>Miriam Krupka</div>
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<h1>Rabbi Abraham Lieberman, Head of School, YULA Girls High School</h1>
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<p dir=rtl style=margin:0>March 31, 2016</p>
<p>Dear Rabbi Novetsky,</p>
<p>It is with great honor and thanks that I write this short note to you. Ever since AlHaTorah was launched, I have from a distance watched its growth and its influence. A revolution in Torah studies and a ripple effect of intellectual depth are clearly due to this amazing website. Both lay people who love learning and Torah teachers across the world have benefited and gained from the materials and sources posted. I have watched, firsthand, our teachers prepare materials for different classes from the available original source materials. From the clear fonts to the intricate opinions, all is beautifully designed to enhance the learning experience. As your work progresses and slowly this edifice of Torah solidifies, if there is anything I can do to help in this process, please let me know.</p>
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<h1>Rabbi Leonard Matanky, Ph.D.<br/>
Dean, Ida Crown Jewish Academy, Chicago IL<br/>
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<p>“It is my pleasure to add these few words of admiration for the <strong style=font-variant:small-caps>AlHaTorah</strong> project. Having reviewed the material presented on this website, I can imagine many different and powerful uses for this wonderful resource. Once additional chapters and materials are added I can see it being used both by teachers and students to enhance their study and understanding of Torah. Kol HaKavod!”</p>
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<h1>Prof. Deena Rabinovich, Chair, Rebecca Ivry Department of Jewish Studies and Director, Legacy Heritage Jewish Educators Project, Stern College for Women</h1>
<blockquote  lang=en dir="ltr" style=font-size:1em>“<strong style=font-variant:small-caps>AlHaTorah.org</strong> is my 'go-to' site whenever I prepare for a class or a shiur, both for the range material available on both Tanakh and Torah Shebaal Peh and for the ease of cutting and pasting into a document. It is also a site I show to my Jewish Education students for them to add to their arsenal.”</blockquote>
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<h1>Ms. Dena Rock, Gemara Ramit and Matmidot Scholars Coordinator, Midreshet Lindenbaum</h1>
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<p lang=he dir=rtl style=margin:0>February 23, 2021</p>
<p>Dear Neima,</p>
<p>Thank you for the incredible contribution you are making to the world of Torah learning with your site, alhatorah.org.  When I am starting to prepare a new shiur, one of my first steps is to check whether your site has covered my topic.  ALHATORAH's comprehensiveness and its organization have saved me hours of work that could then be invested instead in analysis, and also have brought sources and approaches to my attention that I might otherwise have missed.</p>
<p>Thank you also for presenting ALHATORAH to my students.  They commented afterwards that they wish I had introduced you to them even sooner!  Your site is enormously helpful to them in their independent research, and I have no doubt that their papers will be better because of the material and tools that your site has put at their fingertips.</p>
<p>Thank you again for creating this phenomenal site להגדיל תורה ולהאדירה.</p>
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<h1>Rabbi David Saltzman<br/>
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<p style=margin:0;text-align:right>November 14, 2016 / 13 Marcheshvan 5777</p>
<p>Dear AlHaTorah,</p>
<p>I would like to thank you for all the work and effort you have put into your website. There is a wealth of information and I use it all the time. It is my first place to go when preparing a Parasha shiur. I begin by checking the topics already discussed on the Parasha. They are thorough and explain what each Parshan says to answer the posed questions and the anomalies in the text. The notes are also always illuminating and provide material for deeper discussions.</p>
<p>When preparing the shiur, before using an actual sefer, I use the online Mikraot Gedolot. It is easy to navigate and includes a number of not so common Meforshim. The options to choose which meforshim and how to display them also allows the search to focus on the material that I am looking for.</p>
<p>The most recent addition of the Concordance is a powerful tool in order to find similar words throughout the Tanach. I just used it this past week to make a connection between the פרידה of Lot from Avram and the פרידה of the 70 nations from each other!</p>
<p>I also enjoy the historical write ups on the Parshanim and the recent work on the Rashi manuscripts. I used that material recently to give a class on Rav Yosef Kara and how his explanations may have seeped into the Rashi text we currently have in our Chumashim.</p>
<p>Needless to say I am enjoying and always using the site. Thanks again and Tizku L'Mitzvot!!</p>
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<h1>Professor Uriel Simon, Tanakh scholar and author<br/>
 Chairperson Emeritus of Bar Ilan University Bible Department</h1>
<blockquote lang=en dir="ltr" style=font-size:1em>“Just as the invention of the printing press facilitated the creation of the <span class=transliterate>Mikraot Gedolot</span> which expanded the horizons of Torah study, the invention of the computer has enabled unbounded exposure to the richness of Biblical interpretation. <strong style=font-variant:small-caps>AlHaTorah.org</strong> has the potential to make an unprecedented contribution toward the realization of this goal.”</blockquote>
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<h1>Dr. Yael Ziegler, Rosh Batei Midrash and Academic Director of Matan<br/>
 Senior Lecturer in Tanakh at Herzog College</h1>
<blockquote lang=en dir="ltr" style=font-size:1em>“<strong style=font-variant:small-caps>AlHaTorah</strong> is a useful and innovative online Torah resource, ambitious in scope and depth, and always adding new resources and tools. Its interface is easy to use and is helpful both for accessing sources and for comparing biblical passages or analyzing a particular passage. I utilize this website on a daily basis in my research and Torah study.”</blockquote>
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