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.
Hannah’s Hymn of Thanksgiving
And Hannah placed the boy before Eli and said to him, “This is the desire I have desired, and this is the request I have asked” (1 Samuel 1:25–27). And Eli said to her, “You have not asked alone, but…
Bodily Ascent to Heaven
And the Lord, with his own mouth, said to me, “Courage, Enoch, do not fear! Arise and stand before my face forever.” And Michael, the archistratege [highest archangel], lifted me up and…
The Fox and the Fish
The sages taught: One time, [after the Bar Kokhba rebellion,] the evil empire [of Rome] decreed that Israel may not engage in [the study and practice of] Torah. Pappos ben Judah came and found R…
The Noahide Laws
8:4. Concerning the seven commandments that were prescribed to the children of Noah: Setting up courts of justice, [prohibitions against] idolatry, blasphemy, fornication, bloodshed, robbery, and…
Mishnah Rosh Hashanah
8. It happened that two witnesses came and said, “We saw it [the new moon] in the morning in the east and in the evening in the west.” R. Yoḥanan ben Nuri said: They are lying witnesses. When they…
Tosefta Bava Kamma
16. He who frightens his fellow to death is exempt under human law but liable under heavenly law.
If he shouted in his ear and deafened him, he is exempt.
If he seized him by the ear [or: seized him…
Bavli Sanhedrin
[If] his father wishes [to hold him liable to prosecution under Deuteronomy 21’s law of “a stubborn and rebellious son”—ed.] but his mother does not wish [that, or if] his father does not wish [to…
Lamentations Rabbah
R. Abba bar Kahana began: Who is the wise man who will understand this . . . (Jeremiah 9:11). R. Simeon ben Yoḥai taught: If you have seen towns uprooted from their place…
In the Wilderness
ExodusChapter 16Setting out from Elim, the whole Israelite community came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their…
Hezekiah (Samuel-Kings)
In the third year of King Hoshea son of Elah of Israel, Hezekiah son of King Ahaz of Judah became king. He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem…
Ezra Reads the Teaching to the People
When the seventh month arrived—the Israelites being [settled] in their towns—the entire people assembled as one man in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring the…
Bodily Discharges and Impurity
The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: Speak to the Israelite people and say to them:
When any man has a discharge issuing from his member, he is unclean. [ . . . ]
When one with a discharge…