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.
La certeza del camino (The True Path)
Great hazards of the world are these rational brutes, the avaricious rich, as they are…
‘Olelot Efrayim (The Gleanings of Ephraim)
[Text:] § 22 The Midrash says: “For the sake of four things were our…
Tekhine (Women’s Supplication): For a Pregnant Woman
Lord of the world, my God,
I humbly beg You, with a broken heart,
And with my weak body,
To confirm my baby in Torah,
As a person of honor and riches.…
Declaration
We the undersigned have taken it upon ourselves to be in one society, to serve the Lord, may He be blessed, and to busy ourselves with His Torah day and night, in accordance with that which our…
Letter from Jerusalem
And now, why is it that I ask you, and beg of you, like a son who begs of his father, that you do everything that you possibly can to emigrate to this holy place? If there is no other reason, then it…
With God’s Help
With God’s help I set myself the aim,
And with God’s aid I hope to achieve the same.
The holy book of Psalms in Taytsh [Yiddish] to make known,
Hoping that all shall praise and extol God, blessed be…
Printer’s Preface: Tsene rene
God, blessed be He, knew very well that the people of Israel would be scattered among the nations and that most of them would not be able to understand the holy tongue [Hebrew]. Therefore our sages…
Retrato del Temple de Selomo (Depiction of Solomon’s Temple)
So that you may obtain a full, sufficient, and satisfying account, oh friend reader, of such an eminent structure as was that of the Temple of Solomon, it is advisable that you first know some things…
Tratado sobre Medicina . . . para seu filho levar consigo quando se foy para o Brazil (A Treatise on Medicine . . . for His Son to Take with Him When He Went to Brazil)
A sweet-water bath is a serious remedy to refresh the body from mange, itching, leprosy, melancholy, watchfulness, and thinness of the body. It is taken by a person placing himself in a vat, or…
De la resurrección de los muertos (On the Resurrection of the Dead)
Book III: In which the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the dead are proved against the Sadducees. The causes of the miraculous resurrection are explained, and the final judgment and…
O Lord of everything
O Lord of everything, who seeks the nation that seeks you,
Do not separate yourself from us, and we will not separate from you—O Lord of everything!
For you, O…
Where will you camp, O my ibex?
Where will you camp, O my ibex, for whom I yearn?
Where will you drip the droplets of your wine and your dew—O formidable one?
If you bring up your beauty to heaven on high,
You will dim…