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.
Dinah and Bilhah
That day Bilhah heard that Joseph had perished. While she was mourning for him, she died. She had been living in Qafratefa. His daughter Dinah, too, died after Joseph had perished. These three…
Hymn of the Three Youths
But the angel of the Lord came down into the furnace to be with Azariah and his companions, and drove the fiery flame out of the furnace, and made the inside of the furnace as though a moist wind…
Baruch’s Prayers for Divine Mercy on Israel
And it happened after seven days that I prayed before the Mighty One and said:
O Lord, you summon the coming of the times,and they stand before you.You cause the display of power of the…
Deborah’s Hymn of Thanksgiving
Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abino and all the people together sang a hymn to the Lord on that day, saying (Judges 5:1), “Behold the Lord has shown us his glory from on high, as he did in the…
God’s Celestial Palace and Enoch’s Commission
And in the vision thus it appeared to me: Behold, clouds called me in the vision, and mists summoned me. Shooting-stars and lightnings urged me on and whirled me along, and in my vision winds gave me…
Saul and the Necromancer
To what was Saul comparable at that time [when he swore by God that no harm would come to the necromancer]? [It is comparable] to a woman who is with her lover and swears by her husband’s life.
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Em, Abaye’s Teacher
R. Yoḥanan [never saw his parents]. When his mother was pregnant with him, his father died; [and when] she gave birth to him, his mother died. And the same [is true of] Abaye.
[The…
Mishnah Yoma
6. If one is seized by a ravenous hunger, they feed him even impure things until his eyes light up [and he returns to health]. If one was bit by a mad dog, they do not feed him…
Tosefta Ketubbot
They force [a spouse] to move from a town that has a gentile majority to a town that has a Jewish majority, but they do not force [a spouse] to move from a town that has a Jewish majority to a town…
Bavli Bava Me․zi‘a
Until when is he [the defrauded party who has been given a worn coin] permitted to retract [the transaction and return the coin]? In towns, until he can show [the coin] to a money…