The early 1970s marked a pivotal moment when computer technology began transforming Jewish scholarship in Israel, raising fundamental questions about the relationship between traditional interpretation and computational analysis. Through examination of three groundbreaking projects, a complex picture emerges of how digital tools enhanced yet challenged traditional scholarly methods. Dr. Yehudah Raddai's computational analysis of the Book of Isaiah, drawing on an 18,000-word vocabulary database, provided statistical support for multiple authorship theories by revealing distinct vocabulary patterns between chapters 1-12 and 40-48, particularly in war-related terminology. Simultaneously, scholars embarked on creating a comprehensive Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language through computerized indexing of texts from 200 BCE to 600 CE, including Dead Sea Scrolls and Genizah fragments. A third initiative tackled the massive task of digitally indexing approximately 300,000 responsa across 3,000 volumes of Jewish legal literature. While these projects demonstrated computers' unprecedented capacity for quantitative analysis and data retrieval in Jewish studies, they also highlighted an essential boundary: though machines excel at processing data, the crucial tasks of interpretation and determining contemporary relevance remain fundamentally human scholarly endeavors.