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.
Kartīr’s Smiting of Religious Minorities
And from province to province, place to place, and throughout the empire, the services to Ohrmazd and the gods increased. And the Mazdayasnian [Zoroastrian] tradition and the magi received great honor…
To Qualify as a “Murderous Court”
If one fled after having been convicted at a court and again comes up before the same court, the [first] judgment is not set aside. Wherever two witnesses stand up and declare, “We testify that so-and…
The Numerical Sayings
7. [There are] seven things [characteristic] in a clod, and seven in a wise man:
- A wise man does not speak before one who is greater than he in wisdom.He does not break into his fellow’s speech.He is…
Supervising Agricultural Workers
If one hired laborers and told them to work early or to work late, he has no right to compel them to do so where the custom is not to work early or not to work late. In a place where the custom is to…
Prayer for Commercial Success
May it be the will before You, Eternal our God and God of our fathers, that this year be a year of low prices, a year of satiety, a year of trade, a year of rains, sunshine, and dew, and that your…
Betrothal
A man can betroth [a woman] through himself or through his agent. A woman may be betrothed through herself or through her agent. A man may give his daughter in betrothal when a young girl [either]…
Mishnah Zevaḥim
1:4. For a sacrifice can be disqualified in [any one of] the four elements [of the ritual]: slaughtering, receiving, carrying, and sprinkling. R. Simeon declares it valid if carried [with the wrong…