1  Feb 89                      JUDAIC STUDIES             26 Shevat 49 BS"D

    This is the inaugural edition of a weekly newsletter, which we hope will
expand into a into a bulletin board.  The main idea is communication.  Who's
doing what and how can they be contacted?  Does anyone have information rel-
evant to my work and have I knowledge that  can guide anyone  else?  Comput-
ers allow quick, efficient gathering of information which can be accessed
and responded to at leisure.  We also hope to be a source of information on
computer applications in Judaic Studies, such as hebrew word processing and
textual analysis.

    The Chovos HaLevavos emphasized the importance of thankfulness.  We wish
to thank all of the following people for their part in creating this letter:
         1) Avrum Goodblatt, our mentor, whose constant encouragement seems
            to have finally gotten things off the ground.
         2) Dr. Emanuel Tov, with whose help we have an account at Hebrew U
            from which to begin operations.
         3) Dr. Kuzriel Meir, who has assisted both in computers and in
            Judaic Studies.

    You may have been wondering who's been writing all this.  Well may you
wonder, since, impartial as he may try to be, an editor almost inevitably
brings his own views into what he edits.  My name is Yechiel Greenbaum.  I
am an observant Jew.  I am interested in Judaica bibliography & reference,
generally, and in what may be broadly defined as methodology of learning,
specifically.  I'd prefer to err on the side of being accurate and tho-
rough.

    Please send the electronic address of anyone who might be interested in
receiving this letter.  More important, please send your ideas of what you
would like to see: questions you want answered; areas you'd like discussed;
good ideas that you are working on (or that you wish someone else would
save you the trouble of working on).
    Our electronic address is WWRMK at HUJIVM1.  My mailing address is 5
Beit Shearim St., Kiryat Moshe, Jerusalem, ISRAEL.  My phone is 02-536105

NEXT WEEK - Topology: Where Judaics Are Studied
            Further Acknowledgements