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.
Ladino Song on the Conversion of Shabbetai Tzvi
Rabbis are becoming angry with our redeemerOur king and the shekhinah is heAnd it is for good and for the good of our King and for the goodof the six hundred thousand of Israel that all followed him …
Pesach Haggadah: Israeli Kibbutz Version
Come my beloved,
let us go into the open;
Let us lodge among the henna shrubs.
Let us go early to the vineyards;
Let us see if the vine has flowered,
If its blossoms have…
Letter about the Validity of the Messiah
After greeting, I accepted the letters, but we do not have the time to copy the expositions, as you wanted. Due to the fact that the late, wise, and pious Judah Ashkenazi, when he came to Jerusalem…
Tsadik yesod ‘olam (The Righteous Is an Everlasting Foundation)
And so it was in the days of the Judge of judges; and so it was, a famine in the land. And a man went out from Bethlehem in Judah to live in the field of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. (Ruth…
Sha‘ar ha-mitsvot (The Gate of Commandments)
By way of our prayers and our practical commandments that we perform below, we need to cause a coupling of the male and the female, and we raise them up…
Sha‘ar ha-yiḥudim (The Gate of Unifications)
If you prostrate yourself over the graves of the righteous, you need to have the proper intention, so that through your prostration, you will cause the soul of that righteous person to…
Tekhine imohos (Women’s Supplication of the Matriarchs)
Riboyne shel oylem, Almighty God, You created heaven and earth and all creatures with great compassion within six days and with only ten words. And on the seventh day, which is shabes koydesh, You…
To You, Lord God, we call out
To You, Lord God, we call out
With cries and with clamoring
For we are most distressed.
See how we lose hope
If no one comes to our rescue.
You protect lost children,
The helpless orphans,
The…
Seder nashim (Order of Women): On Obligations
This is a prayer book for women in Ladino for the whole year, with its order of blessings at the end. And the order for washing the hands and many other laws applicable to all of the most common…
Divre shalom (Words of Peace)
In this way God sought to clarify, test, and verify the lesson which I wrote that the Torah is the essence of all entities, in two respects. First, in the previous sermon I wrote that God…
Discursos predicables y avisos espirituales (Preaching Discourses and Spiritual Advice)
God created man so that man might know His majesty, which is the highest good: knowing Him, being able to love Him, and loving Him, being able to possess…