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.
Conception, Gestation, and Determination of Fetal Sex
If someone’s wife conceived, and he said [a prayer], “Let it be [God’s] will that my wife shall give birth to a male [child]”—this is a prayer in vain. [ . . . ]
[Hebrew] It has been taught [in a…
Joseph the Wise
Artapanus says in his work Concerning the Jews that Joseph was a descendant of Abraham and a son of Jacob. Because he surpassed his brothers in intelligence and prudence, they plotted against him. But…
David’s Song of Praise
A Hallelujah of David the Son of Jesse
I was the smallest among my brothers,
and the youngest among the sons of my father; and he made me shepherd of his flocks,
and…
Mordecai’s Prayer for Fortitude and Deliverance
Then Mordecai prayed to the Lord, calling to remembrance all the works of the Lord.
He said, “O Lord, Lord, you rule as King over all things, for the universe is in your power and there is no one…
Hannah’s Hymn of Thanksgiving
And Hannah placed the boy before Eli and said to him, “This is the desire I have desired, and this is the request I have asked” (1 Samuel 1:25–27). And Eli said to her, “You have not asked alone, but…
Bodily Ascent to Heaven
And the Lord, with his own mouth, said to me, “Courage, Enoch, do not fear! Arise and stand before my face forever.” And Michael, the archistratege [highest archangel], lifted me up and…
The Fox and the Fish
The sages taught: One time, [after the Bar Kokhba rebellion,] the evil empire [of Rome] decreed that Israel may not engage in [the study and practice of] Torah. Pappos ben Judah came and found R…
The Noahide Laws
8:4. Concerning the seven commandments that were prescribed to the children of Noah: Setting up courts of justice, [prohibitions against] idolatry, blasphemy, fornication, bloodshed, robbery, and…
Mishnah Rosh Hashanah
8. It happened that two witnesses came and said, “We saw it [the new moon] in the morning in the east and in the evening in the west.” R. Yoḥanan ben Nuri said: They are lying witnesses. When they…
Tosefta Bava Kamma
16. He who frightens his fellow to death is exempt under human law but liable under heavenly law.
If he shouted in his ear and deafened him, he is exempt.
If he seized him by the ear [or: seized him…