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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.
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To Mend the World

What is a Jew? Who is a Jew? After this catastrophe, what is a Jew’s relation to the Jewish past? We resume our original question as we turn from one rupture in post-Holocaust Jewish existence—of the…

Voices of the Matriarchs

What does it mean to study women’s religion? How are we to define our subject matter? How are we to understand the relationship of the history of women’s religious life and practice to the history of…

About Jerusalem and Its Leaders

Thus said my Lord God of Hosts: Go in to see that steward, that Shebna, in charge of the palace: What have you here, and whom have you here, That you have hewn out a tomb for yourself here?— O…

On Courage and Resistance

Let’s start with risk. The risk of being punished. The risk of being isolated. The risk of being injured or killed. The risk of being scorned. We are all conscripts in one sense or another. For all of…

On Individual Righteousness

The word of the Lord came to me: O mortal, if a land were to sin against Me and commit a trespass, and I stretched out My hand against it and broke its staff of bread, and sent famine against it…

Forgiveness and Restoration

Then the Lord was roused On behalf of His land And had compassion Upon His people. In response to His people The Lord declared: “I will grant you the new grain, The new wine, and the…

Time to Rebuild the Temple

In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, this word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, the governor of Judah, and to…

Lamentations

Alas! Lonely sits the city Once great with people! She that was great among nations Is become like a widow; The princess among states Is become a thrall. Bitterly she weeps in the night…

Psalm 50

A psalm of Asaph. God, the Lord God spoke and summoned the world from east to west. From Zion, perfect in beauty, God appeared —let our God come and not fail to act! Devouring fire preceded Him; i…