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.
Laments of Eliphas and Nereus for Job
And so, after he [Eliphas] had wept with a loud wailing, he called out a royal lament while both the other kings and their troops sang in response.
Hear then the lament of…
Ezra’s Prayer for Israel’s Forgiveness
“And now I will speak out: About all humankind you know best; but I will speak out about your people, for whom I am grieved, and about your inheritance, from whom I lament, and about Israel, for…
Yael’s Prayer before Killing Sisera
And when Sisera was sleeping, Jael went out to the flock and got milk from it. And when she was milking, she said, “And now be mindful, Lord, of when you assigned every tribe or race to the earth. Did…
Vision of the Glory of God
And it came to pass when the sun was setting, and behold a smoke like that of a furnace, and the angels who had the divided portions of the sacrifice ascended from the top of the furnace…
A King with Two Sons
“Thus said the Lord of Hosts: Listen! Summon the dirge-singers, let them come” (Jer. 9:16). [ . . . ]
R. Yoḥanan said:
It is like a king who had two sons. He became angry at the first one, took a…
The Greek Way of Life
From them [the successors of Alexander the Great] came forth a sinful root, Antiochus Epiphanes, son of King Antiochus; he had been a hostage in Rome. He began to reign in the…
Mishnah Kiddushin
A woman is acquired in three ways and acquires herself in two ways.
She is acquired by money, by document, or by sexual intercourse.
By money—Beth Shammai say: By a dinar, or by the equivalent of a…
Tosefta Menaḥot
6. Torah regards intention as stronger than action in cases of sacrifice and action as stronger than intention in cases of sacrifice. How is intention stronger than action in cases of sacrifice? One…
Mekhilta de-Rabbi Simeon bar Yoḥai
If one strikes a man [and he dies, he shall surely be put to death] (Exodus 21:12). I only know from this about one who strikes a man. How does one know from…
Alexander and the Jews
During the time when John became high priest, Bagoses, the general of Artaxerxes’ army, polluted the Temple and imposed tribute on the Jews, declaring that out of the public stock…
Judaea Falls under Roman Control
The first Roman to subdue the Jews and set foot in their temple by right of conquest was Gnaeus Pompey: thereafter it was a matter of common knowledge that there were no representations of the gods…
Herod and His Sons
Now Pompey clipped off some of the territory that had been forcibly appropriated by the Judaeans, and appointed Herod to the priesthood; but later a certain Herod, a descendant of his and a native of…