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.
Praying in the Synagogue versus Praying Privately
It was taught, Abba Benjamin said: One’s prayer is only [fully] heard in a synagogue, as it is stated: to listen to the song and the prayer (1 Kings…
Rabbinic Personal Blessings
When the sages took leave of the study hall of R. Ammi, and some say [it was] the study hall of R. Ḥanina, they would say to him the following [blessing]: May you…
Writing the Truth Plainly
Besides being wise, the Teacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs. The Teacher sought to find pleasing words, and he wrote words of truth plainly.…
The “Seven Spirits”
And now give heed to me, my children, concerning the things which I saw during my time of penitence, concerning the seven spirits of deceit. For seven spirits are established against mankind, and they…
Physical Labor Is Divine
Do not hate hard labor or farm work, which was created by the Most High.
Translation from the New Revised Standard Version.
Deed of Gift from Babatha’s Husband, Judah, to His Daughter
In the consulship of Publius Metilius Nepos for the second time and Marcus Annius Libo sixteen days before the kalends of May, according to the compute of the new province year twenty-third on the…
Shavuot as the Date of the Giving of the Torah
The sages taught: On the sixth [day] of the month [of Sivan], the Ten Commandments were given to the Israelites. R. Yosi says: On the seventh [day] of [the month]. Rava said: Everyone agrees [that the…
Good Deeds and Sins Accompany the Dead
R. Samuel bar Naḥmani said R. Jonathan said: Anyone who fulfills one commandment in this world, that commandment precedes him and goes before him in the world to come, as it is said: And your…
Healthy Ways of Living
Hebrew
If one does the following six things, he will die immediately: if one comes weary from a journey, let blood, entered a bathhouse, drank and became drunk, slept on the…
External Factors That Affect the Fetus
Aramaic
A woman who has intercourse in a [public] mill will have epileptic children.
[A woman] who has intercourse on the ground will have children with…
Aseneth Succumbs to Joseph’s Charm
Aseneth [ . . . ] despised and rejected all the men who courted her, and she was arrogant and superior to everyone. Indeed, no man had ever seen her, because she resided in a tower which adjoined…