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In the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God
--Genesis 21,33

# Mishneh Torah

The Hebrew here is "logical" right-to-left Hebrew as Hebrew is normally written. Many Hebrew Web sites still use "visual" or left-to-right Hebrew that is written as if Hebrew were a European language like English, which is the best that can be done in the older browsers. Since the advent of the HTML 4 standard ages ago (way back in 1997!), recognizing the importance of non-European languages, some newer browsers (including Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 and later, even when running under Windows for English) support enough of the new standard so that we are able to bring here rather normal looking Hebrew, written logically and with full justification as Hebrew is traditionally written. Some browsers that claim to support HTML 4 still cannot properly display our pages, though.

If you are not sure if you have proper Hebrew support, take a look at the links at the top and bottom of this page, and try clicking on the one for Mishneh Torah (but be ready to click your back button, if what you see is unreadable!): If what you see looks all right, your browser should properly display all of our logical Hebrew. This part of the site only requires partial support of the current HTML standards; if you see backwards Hebrew, you will probably not be able to use this part of the site with your current browser and/or system combination (you might try adjusting the encoding and fonts, though, if you think your system should support logical right-to-left Hebrew). If you have Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5, you should have full logical Hebrew support, even if your system itself does not have Hebrew support. If you do not have Unicode Hebrew fonts installed on a non-Hebrew system, ie5 will ask permission to download and install them for you; if so, let it do that. Hopefully, within a year or two, all browsers will properly display Hebrew regardless of the underlying system.

Please note that you have your choice here of either getting rather small chapter by chapter files for normal use or getting large (up to 200K) files intended primarily for printing all of the chapters of a particular set of laws, such as the Laws of Shabbath (all 30 chapters in one file!). We have also had requests for such large files for those who prefer to browse and search just one big file instead of having to jump from file to file.

Technical Note: Both the Mishneh Torah and Bible versions here have specific labels for each and every individual halachah or verse; thus one can compactly and easily refer directly to specific places, such as Laws of Holidays Chapter 6 in Paragraph 15 by using <A HREF="http://www.mechon-mamre.org/i/3406.htm#15">, in which
the first digit after the last slash is the book number, here 3,
the next digit is the number of the halachah division, here 4,
the last two digits before the period are the chapter number, here 06,
and the number after # is the number of the individual halachah, here 15.
Because there are more than 9 books in Mishneh Torah, we use hexadecimal digits a, b, c, d, and e for 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 respectively for the last 5 books. 0 refers to the index and introduction to the whole code.
Similarly, one can refer to a Bible verse such as Shema` Yisra'el at Deuteronomy Chapter 6, verse 4 by using <A HREF="http://www.mechon-mamre.org/i/t/t0506.htm#4">, in which
the t plus the first two digits after the last slash are the book number, here t05,
the next two digits are the chapter number, here 06,
and the number after the # is the number of the individual verse, here 4.

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last revised: 7 February 2004

חזור לכניסת האתר - הדרכה - משנה תורה - השער למשנה תורה בעברית