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.
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 Flood
This is the line of Noah.—Noah was a righteous man; he was blameless in his age; Noah walked with God.—Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
The earth became corrupt before…
Samuel
There was a man from Ramathaim of the Zuphites, in the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham son of Elihu son of Tohu son of Zuph, an…
Manasseh (Chronicles)
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. He did what was displeasing to the Lord, following the abhorrent practices of the nations that the…
Hebrew Slaves
When you acquire a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years; in the seventh year he shall go free, without payment. If he came single, he shall leave single; if he had a wife, his wife shall leave…
Single Worship Site and Proper Rites
These are the laws and rules that you must carefully observe in the land that the Lord, God of your fathers, is giving you to possess, as long as you live on earth.
You must destroy all…