Hebrewbooks.org was founded in order to preserve old American Hebrew books that are out of print and/or circulation.  Many American  Rabbis wrote seforim (Hebrew books) in the early part of the 20th century. They have long since passed away and in many instances so has their holy work.

Currently Hebrewbooks.org‘s mission has expanded to include all Torah Seforim ever printed.  At Hebrewbooks.org you will be able to view and print the entire Sefer online.

If you were to ask any Rabbi who authored a sefer, what his one wish would be, his answer would surely be, “I want people to learn my sefer, even after my passing“.  Indeed, many Rabbis writing in their introductions: “I wrote this sefer and hope it will be studied even after my death, in order that my lips may move in my grave.” When you quote these seforim, please be sure to mention the Rabbi’s name. In this way the author’s  ”lips will move in his grave“. In this manner you will bring life to the memory of the author.  Our Rabbis of  blessed memory teach us that “He who quotes a saying in the name of  its author, hastens the redemption of the world“.  They cite the Book of Esther in support of this: “Queen Esther reported the plot to kill king Achashverosh in the name of Mordechai“.

HebrewBooks.org is a not-for-profit organization.  Their goal is to bring to life the many Seforim that were written and unfortunately forgotten,  and  to make all Torah Publications free and ubiquitous.

A new application for viewing HebrewBooks.org …  on the  iPhone and iPad is now available for  free as version 1.0 (a work in progress).  Download, read or print over 40,000 rare and out of print Seforim from Hebrewbooks.org.

Users reviews

“Wow. Hebrewbooks has done it again! Those guys never let up.  Just downloaded the  free app. It’s different than their site, but I was able to download and read the seforim on my iPhone, it even works on my IPad. They say this is just a start and they plan on tweaking and adding more features. I can’t wait.”

“I can have a whole seforim bookcase in my pocket! Yasher Koach, and tizku l’mitzvos. P.S. I just figured out how to search in Hebrew.  Just go the general settings by the keyboard language setting, and turn the Hebrew to ‘on’.”

Compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad

Category: Books
Released: June 22, 2010
Publisher:  The Society for the Preservation of Hebrew Books
Price: Free (get app)

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