DISCLAIMER
Last revised 5/31/00


The Temple Sinai Home Page first became live on 1/1/97.  Link Inclusions in The Digital Genizah do NOT represent an endorsement of
 viewpoint. The religious bibliography known as The Digital Genizah aims to trace an outline of a people; not to be exhaustive in scope

To be solely Jewish eliminates too many excellent Sites --- like the one run by The Mormons on the Dead Sea Scrolls.  Accordingly real Chachmas will find themselves in decidedly NON-JEWISH Cyberspace.

Although each Link has been inspected, there is no guarantee that each and every Link will be Kosher! If you come across something you find objectionable, first read item #5 in the Cyber Guide for The Perplexed and then let me know about it.
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"Mission Statement"

In my business I became more aggressive in internet promotion.
So I decided to use these techniques for the Temple Sinai Web Site.
The following questions from a public relations tutorial were addressed as follows:
The answers took the form of a Mission Statement.

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1.) What is your reason for having a site? What do you hope will happen?
2.) If you were your customer, why would you visit your site?
3.) What do you have that your competition doesn't have?
4.) Relative to what you offer, what other interests do your customers have?
5.) If you were your customer, what words would you use to find you?
6.) In priority order, type the 10 most important words from your answer above.

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The reason for this site is to compile a mass of religious links of a high inner quality to generate a permanent audience. It is hoped that the popularity of the approach will create a good marketing environment, which would be financially useful for me personally, interested Congregants, and the Temple in general.

The intellectual and inner quality of the material has been very useful to me. It has been a pleasure to create the Site. I have already been amply paid for my efforts by dramatically increased design and technical skills as a result thereof.

Judaism is a flower with many petals. An orthodox religious Jew confines himself to the form personally handed down to him, or prescribed by his Rebbe. The possibility of choosing, and a recombinant growth does not appeal to him. For people who are looking for definition in the breadth of a subject, and detail, the link section is a very open ended definition, and well documented.

It is not so much what others Sites don't have, but the mass of  it  present at once. Like a supermarket, many people go in for a quart of milk, simply because they know it's there. For a small need convenience wins. There is an abundance of material here,  so perhaps it could become a primary source.

To address what they don't do ---Here the different threads have been comprehensively woven together.  I have neither an  ideological nor a theological axe to grind.

Furthermore, the historical, psychological, the archaeological, the ritual, the genealogical, the mystical, and the political are well reflected in quantities of materials NOT easily available elsewhere.

A number of needs tangential to Judaism are well addressed. Due to the concern with which food is treated the presence of a comprehensive approach to vegetarian supplies, both of a natural food nature, and of a gourmet nature adds an appealing corner for a health conscious, yet Kosher cook. It is a further separation between life, and a respect for it, and death.

A similar approach to beer brewing and wine making may interest another audience.

An unusual section is devoted to other religions. From a research standpoint these resources are unmatched.  From a spiritual standpoint it could create a more sensitive inner understanding about how God is sensed,  perceived, and worshipped in different traditions.

A Key search word list was generated, below is a partial listing: "Jew, Jewish, Kosher, Religion, Spiritual, searching, immanent, transcendent, numinal,  phenomenal, Hebrew, Hebraic, Bethel, semitic, antisemitic, Israel, Jerusalem, hasid, orthodox,  kasher, Shabbos, sabbath, Pesach, Purim, Yom Kippur, Shul, Synagogue, God, Father, The Almighty,  Hashem, Adonai, Jehovah, Yahweh, Elohaynu, El Shaddai, mosiach, messiah, kabbalism, sephardic, ashkenazi, marrano, khazar, karaite, circumcision, bris, Judeo, Judaic, Judaica, Essene, Dead Sea, Zionist, Pharisee, Hillel, Shamai, Talmud, Gemarra, Mishna, Rabbi, Rebbe, Parsha, theological,
pseudipigraphic, apocryphal, messianic, Elijah, Prophets, Patriarchs, Matriarchs, Seers, miracles, awe, fear, trembling, submission, monotheism, Creator, manna, Heaven, Angel,  Archangel, Messenger, Noah, Moses, Aaron, Cohen, Judgment Day, resurrection,
heavenly reward, Observant,Holocaust."

A more interesting , voluminous, and humorous approach was taken on the pages themselves. The Temple Sinai Web Site is the only site of which I am aware that has an "Inner Life." If you can, look at the poetry I created with meta-tags inside the coding.

The ten most important words which could have been used are Names for God and are: God, The Almighty, Father, HaShem, ElShaddai, Adonai, Elohaynu, The Creator, Yahweh, Jehovah, (to which many more expressions could be added).

For being found on the Internet the ten most important words from the Keyword lists are: Jew, Hebrew, Synagogue, Rabbi, Torah, Talmud, Kosher, Holocaust, Israel, Zionist

The ten runner-ups are:  Hasid, Rebbe, Shul, Pesach, Purim, Chanukah, genealogy, Jerusalem,  antisemite, Shabbos.

Any interesting objections, comments, or additions should be e-mailed to me.

Yours,

Mark C. Bassell
WebMaster for Temple Sinai

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