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.
Disputes between Babatha and Her Co-Widow, Miriam
Before the attending witnesses who also affixed their signatures, Babathas (sic), a Maozene woman, daughter of Simon, summoned Miriam, an En-gedian woman, daughter of Beianos, to accompany her in…
Philo’s Explanation of Sukkot
The last of the annual feasts, called Tabernacles, recurs at the autumn equinox. From this we may draw two morals. The first is, that we should honour equality and hate inequality, for the former is…
The Seventeenth of Tammuz and the Ninth of Av
6. There were five events that happened to our ancestors on the seventeenth of Tammuz and five on the ninth of Av. On the seventeenth of Tammuz the tablets were shattered, the tamid offering was…
Condition-Free Divorce
If a man divorces his wife and said to her, “You are free to marry any man but so-and-so,” R. Eliezer permits her [to marry on the strength of this get], but the rabbis forbid her. What should he do…
Ritual Bath
1:1. There are six types of bodies of water [that may be used for immersion], one superior to another, and another one superior to that one. Water in cisterns: If an impure person drank [from it] and…
A Heavenly Messiah
And I saw there one who was Ancient of Days [lit., Head of Days], and his head was white like wool, and with him was another whose face had the appearance of a man. His face was full of…
Seeing God and Becoming Stars
“Now this is the order of those who have kept the ways of the Most High, when they shall be separated from their mortal body. During the time that they lived in it, they laboriously served the…
Diet and Regimen Involved in a Cure
[Aramaic] Said R. Judah: The [sting of a] hornet, if a thorn or an abscess is pricking him, if one’s eye pains him, or someone is overcome by fever—for all those, [the heat in] the bathhouse…
The Course of Pregnancy
Hebrew
The rabbis taught: During the first three months, the embryo occupies the lowest dwelling chamber; during the middle [three months], it occupies the middle dwelling chamber; and during the last…
The Book of the Mysteries
The name of the first firmament is called Shamayim. Within it are encampments filled with wrath. And seven thrones are prepared there and upon them are seated overseers, and around them on all sides…
Moses and Joseph as Scribes
Next after Manetho, I wish to inquire into Cheremon, for this man also, while claiming to write the Egyptian history, and having given the same name for the king as Manetho, that being Amenophis, as…