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.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Divine Chariot
In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, when I was in the community of exiles by the Chebar Canal, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God. On the fifth day of the month—it…
God’s Lawsuit against Israel
Hear the word of the Lord,
O people of Israel!
For the Lord has a case
Against the inhabitants of this land,
Because there is no honesty and no goodness
And no obedience to God in the land.
[False]…
Pronouncements against Nineveh
A pronouncement on Nineveh: The Book of the Prophecy of Nahum the Elkoshite.
The Lord is a passionate, avenging God;
The Lord is vengeful and fierce in wrath.
The Lord takes vengeance…
The Song of Deborah
On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang:
When locks go untrimmedin Israel,
When people dedicate themselves—
Bless the Lord!
Hear, O kings! Give ear, O potentates!
I will sing, will…
Psalm 19
For the leader. A psalm of David.
The heavens declare the glory of God,
the sky proclaims His handiwork.
Day to day makes utterance,
night to night speaks out.
There is no utterance,
there are no…
Psalm 126
A song of ascents.
When the Lord restores the fortunes of Zion
—we see it as in a dream—
our mouths shall be filled with laughter,
our tongues, with songs of joy.
Then shall they say among the…
The Hebrew Ornament
Cover of L’Ornement Hebreu (The Hebrew Ornament). This major work on Jewish art reproduced ornaments from medieval Hebrew illuminated manuscripts in the imperial library in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The People’s Penitential Prayer after Hearing the Teaching
On the twenty-fourth day of this month, the Israelites assembled, fasting, in sackcloth, and with earth upon them. Those of the stock of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood…
Don’t Join a Gang
My son, heed the discipline of your father,
And do not forsake the instruction of your mother;
For they are a graceful wreath upon your head,
A necklace about your throat.
My son, if sinners…
Job Replies
Job said in reply to the Lord:
See, I am of small worth; what can I answer You?
I clap my hand to my mouth.
I have spoken once, and will not reply;
Twice, and will do so no more.
Then the Lord…
Jeremiah
This bronze plaque, one of the many decorative art objects produced in the workshops of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, depicts the biblical prophet Jeremiah, whose name is…