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.
Baruch’s Prayer for Enlightenment
And I asked the Mighty One and said:
You alone, O Lord, knew the heights of the world beforehand and that which will happen in the times which you bring about by your word. And against the works of…
Terah Blesses Abraham
In the seventh year of the sixth week, he spoke with his father and told him that he was leaving Haran to go to the land of Canaan to see it and return to him. His father Terah said to him:
“Go in…
Rebekah Blesses Jacob
Then she lifted her face to heaven, extended her fingers, and opened her mouth. She blessed the Most High God who had created the heavens and the earth and gave him thanks and praise. She said,…
Onkelos
Onkelos bar Kalonymus converted [to Judaism. The Roman] emperor sent a troop of Roman [soldiers] after him. [Onkelos] drew them [toward him] with verses [that he cited and learned with them, and] they…
Sarah of Ecbatana
On the same day, at Ecbatana in Media, it also happened that Sarah, the daughter of Raguel, was reproached by one of her father’s maids. For she had been married to seven husbands, and…
Saving Christian Books from Fire
[With regard to] the blank folios and the [Torah] scrolls of [the] heretics, one does not rescue them from the fire. R. Yosi says: During the week, one cuts the names [of God contained] therein and…
Mishnah Avot
5. He [Rabban Gamaliel, the son of Judah the Prince] used to say: A boor is not sin-fearing, and a person of lax observance is not pious. A shy person cannot learn, and an impatient person cannot…
Yerushalmi Gittin
If he transgressed and annulled [the divorce document]? Let us hear from the following: If he annulled, it is annulled, the words of Rabbi. Rabban Simeon ben Gamaliel says: He can neither annul it nor…
Genesis Rabbah on the Binding of Isaac
55:2. The Lord tries the righteous, [but His soul despises the wicked and the lover of violence] (Psalm 11:5). R. Jonathan taught: The potter does not test defective vessels, for he hardly has to give…
The Death of Judah
Now Judah heard of the fame of the Romans, that they were very strong and were well-disposed toward all who made an alliance with them, that they pledged friendship to…
Herod Moves against Antigonus and Avenges His Brother
Herod had by now sailed from Italy to Ptolemaïs, and, having put together a considerable force of mercenaries and native Jews, was advancing…
Alexandra
Herod [ . . . ] heard of the arrest of his brother from others, and on the advice of the daughter of Hyrcanus, to whose daughter he had been betrothed, he became…