contra1 [contra1.html]

home page at http://www.rpi.edu/~porusd.

[http://www.rpi.edu/%7Eporusd]

This is the home page of the author, David Porush.
 

Jews traditionally do not write the complete Name in order to indicate its Unknowability

[http://www.rpi.edu/~porusd/DaveWeb/HTML%20FIles/Name%20of%20G-d.html]

This is a node from Porush's "Telepathy: A Personal TalMUD" Web titled " Alephtav and the Name of G-d: towards a metaphysical epistemology."
 

midrash

[http://www.rpi.edu/~porusd/DaveWeb/HTML%20FIles/alephtavianstyle.html]

This is an introduction to Porush's "Personal TalMUD," -- "Just for a foretaste/teaser, I will tell you that this talMUD discusses how the very first alphabet was an early version of the Hebrew alphabet called 'proto-Sinaitic.'"

an alternative to the rational methods of deduction and induction

[http://www.rpi.edu/~porusd/DaveWeb/HTML%20FIles/alephtavianstyle.html]

This is an introduction to Porush's "Personal TalMUD," -- "Just for a foretaste/teaser, I will tell you that this talMUD discusses how the very first alphabet was an early version of the Hebrew alphabet called 'proto-Sinaitic.'"
 

Telepathy

[http://www.rpi.edu/~porusd/DaveWeb/HTML%20FIles/talMUDframe.1.html]

This is the (frame-enabled) first node of Porush's "Telepathy" web.

World Intellectual Property Organization

[http://www.wipo.org/eng/newindex/index.htm]

This is the home page of World Intellectual Property Organization's World Wide Web Server.
 

manifesto

[http://www.wipo.org/eng/dg_idris.htm]

This is a welcome message from Dr. Kamil Idris, Director General of WIPO.
 

"The Problem of Software Piracy in Hong Kong and China"

[http://pluto.houston.com.hk/hkgipd/piracy.html#a2.1]

This is a dissertation written by Kenneth Ho for the degree of Master of Sciences in Analysis and Management of Information Systems at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The contents of this dissertation are the copyright of Kenneth Ho, 1995 and are published on the WWW Page of the Intellectual Property Department, Hong Kong Government, with his permission.

Talmud

[http://www.rpi.edu/~porusd/DaveWeb/HTML%20FIles/Brief%20Talmud%20Overview.html]

Part of the "Telepathy" Web, this page provides a brief overview of the Talmud.
 

The Talmud

[http://www.ucalgary.ca/%7Eelsegal/TalmudPage.html]

From the site: "In this Web page, a typical Talmud page will serve us as a port of departure on a voyage through the history of Jewish religious literature."
 

this telegraphic chart

[http://www.rpi.edu/~porusd/DaveWeb/HTML%20FIles/Talmud%20vs.%20Book%20Learning.html]

Part of the "Telepathy" web, this page offers a table which contrasts "The Copyrighted Book Economy" with "The Talmud/Internet Tradition"

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

[http://www.wipo.org/eng/newindex/index.htm]

The website of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
 

property with cash value (for example, see this chart of the estimated costs of "intellectual property piracy" in real dollars).

[http://pluto.houston.com.hk/hkgipd/piracy.html#app2]

Part of Kenneth Ho's dissertation (see above).
 

Emmanuel Levinas

[http://pw1.netcom.com/~cyberink/lev.html]

This page is "dedicated to the philosophical work of Emmanuel Levinas;" it features primary and secondary bibliography of Levinas's works translated into English.
 

Baal Shem Tov

[http://www.rpi.edu/~porusd/DaveWeb/HTML%20FIles/Baal%20Shem%20Tov.html]

Part of the "Telepathy" web, this page provides informatoin about the Ball Shem Tov: "The Baal Shem Tov was the founder of Chasidism, the ultra-orthodox sect of Judaism distinguished today by its embrace of traditional black garb, hats, beards, headcoverings, and payiss (sidelocks)."
 

more closely related to poetry than philosophy

[http://www.rpi.edu/~porusd/DaveWeb/HTML%20FIles/Letterature.html]

This page, titled "Hebrew as Letterature, Literature as Hebrew, Letterature as Liturgy," is also part of the "Telepathy" web.
 

story of Moses

[http://www.rpi.edu/~porusd/DaveWeb/HTML%20FIles/Moses%20Alphabet-Bringer.html]

The Story of Moses the Alphabet-Bringer is another page in the "Telepathy" web.
 

a curiously inefficient alphabet.

[http://www.rpi.edu/~porusd/DaveWeb/HTML%20FIles/The%20first%20word%201.html]

Another node in the "Telepathy" web, this page offers "The Hebrew Lesson."
 

abstraction and ambiguity

[http://www.rpi.edu/~porusd/DaveWeb/HTML%20FIles/The%20first%20word.3.html]

A node related the one above, also from the "Telepathy" web. From the page: "This first word you read is not the first word you read because these two letters signify alterity especially the alterity of the Jews. These two letters and not-yet-words-though-words-in-becoming signify a very different kind of reading and open up a new/old poetics."

the primitive Hebrew alphabet

[http://www.rpi.edu/~porusd/DaveWeb/HTML%20FIles/4alephtavmeanings.html]

This page (also part of the "Telepathy" web) offers "Some Meanings of Alephtav."
 

alephtav

[http://www.rpi.edu/~porusd/DaveWeb/HTML%20FIles/alephtavianstyle.html]

This is an introduction to Porush's "Personal TalMUD,"--"Just for a foretaste/teaser, I will tell you that this talMUD discusses how the very first alphabet was an early version of the Hebrew alphabet called 'proto-Sinaitic.'"