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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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The Wisdom in the Hebrew Alphabet
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The Wisdom in the Hebrew Alphabet

The fourth letter, ד, has the shape of an open doorway and its name, דָּלֶת, dalet, is cognate with דֶּלֶת [deles], door. The ד also alludes to דַּל, pauper, who knocks on doors, begging for alms. In…

Jacob’s Testament to His Sons

And Jacob called his sons and said, “Come together that I may tell you what is to befall you in days to come. Assemble and hearken, O sons of Jacob; Hearken to Israel your father: Reuben, you…

An Order Concerning a Jar of Oil

(Obverse) To Nahum, [and] now: go to the house of Elyashib son of Ishiyahu and you shall take from there 1 jar of oil and send to Ziph quickly, and seal it with your seal. (Reverse) On the 24th of the…
Stone tablet in two fragments inscribed with Hebrew writing.
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Tel Dan Inscription

[ . . . . . . . . ] and cut (a treaty) [ [ . . . e]l my father went up [against him when] he was fighting in Abe[l?] And my father lay down, he went to his [ancestors (or: eternal place)]. And the…