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.
Philo’s Explanation of Shavuot
The festival of the Sheaf, which has all these grounds of precedence, indicated in the law, is also in fact anticipatory of another greater feast. For it is from it that the fiftieth day is reckoned…
Reading the Megillah
1. The Megillah is read on the eleventh, the twelfth, the thirteenth, the fourteenth, and the fifteenth [of Adar], never earlier and never later. Cities that have been walled since the days of Joshua…
Jesus on Divorce
He left that place and went to the region of Judaea and beyond the Jordan. And crowds again gathered around him; and, as was his custom, he again taught them.
Some Pharisees came, and to test him…
Jewish Abstention from Pork
Question 5
Whether the Jews abstain from pork because of reverence or aversion for the pig
Speakers: Callistratus, Polycrates, Lamprias
1. When he had finished, and some of those present would have…
All Past Deeds Are Shown
God of faithfulness and without falsehood; [He is just and upright] (Deuteronomy 32:4).
God of faithfulness—Just as evil ones receive recompense in the world to come even for the small transgressions…
Loving Wisdom and Keeping Laws
[A]nd love of her is the keeping of her laws,
and giving heed to her laws is assurance of immortality,
and immortality brings one near to God;
so the desire for wisdom leads to a…
The Cure for Worms
Aramaic
But one may eat yo‘ezer.
What is yo‘ezer? [It is] putnak. What is it eaten for? For arketa [worms]. With what is it eaten? With seven white dates. What does it come from? From…
Contraception, Pregnancy, and Nursing
Hebrew
Three women use a mokh [a contraceptive absorbent]: a minor, a pregnant woman, and a nursing woman.
A minor—lest she become pregnant and die. Who is a minor? From eleven years and a day until…
Dinah and Bilhah
That day Bilhah heard that Joseph had perished. While she was mourning for him, she died. She had been living in Qafratefa. His daughter Dinah, too, died after Joseph had perished. These three…
Hymn of the Three Youths
But the angel of the Lord came down into the furnace to be with Azariah and his companions, and drove the fiery flame out of the furnace, and made the inside of the furnace as though a moist wind…