Sample Sources
The sources below are those contained in our three curated collections—covering themes of Passover, Gender Roles, and Holocaust Resistance. They represent a fraction of the thousands of sources that will be available when the full site launches in 2024.
R. Yoḥanan and Resh Lakish
One day, R. Yoḥanan was bathing in the Jordan [River]. Resh Lakish saw him and jumped into the Jordan, pursuing him. [R. Yoḥanan] said to [Resh Lakish], “Your strength [is fit] for Torah [study].”…
The Old Man and the Fig Tree
Hadrian, let his bones rot, was walking up from Tiberias to the Land of Israel when he saw an old man planting saplings. Said Hadrian: Old man, old man, up at sunrise free at sunset—had you toiled in…
Arabs in the Synagogue
Sha’azrek the Tayaya donated a lamp to the synagogue of R. Judah. Raḥaba changed it[s usage from what the donor had intended], and Rava became angry. And some say…
Mishnah Bava Kamma
If one causes a fire through a deaf person, a mentally incompetent person, or a minor, that one is exempt from human law but liable under the law of heaven. If one caused it through a legally…
Yerushalmi Ḥagigah
R. Joshua b. Levi said [in reference to Deuteronomy 9:10: And the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God, and upon them the exact words that the Lord has addressed to you…
Sifre Deuteronomy
Furthermore, one should rejoice more in chastisement than in prosperity. For if one is prosperous all his life, no sin of his will be forgiven. What brings…
Jews as Seleucid Soldiers
The Jews also received honors from the kings of Asia when they served them in war; for example, Seleucus Nicator made them citizens of the cities that he built in Asia and in lower Syria, and in the…
Conflicts between the Young Herod and Hyrcanus
Antipater saw Caesar out of Syria and then returned to Judaea. His first act was to rebuild the wall of the capital which had been destroyed by Pompey. He then toured the country, suppressing any…
Antipas Contests Archelaus’ Rule
Meanwhile Antipas returned to the fray and disputed the succession to the throne…
The Temple Falls
Titus, now realizing that his attempt to spare a foreign temple was only causing injury and death to his own men, gave orders for the gates…
Laws about Jews in the Theodosian Code
emperor constantine augustus to evagrius
We want the Jews, their…