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.
A Second Death after Resurrection?
R. Ḥaninah said: In the coming future, death will only pertain to the sons of Noah. R. Joshua ben Levi said: It will pertain neither to Israel nor to the nations of the world. The Lord will wipe away…
Variety of Hells
[And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awaken, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt (Daniel 12:2, NRSV).]
3. Beth Shammai says: There are three…
One-Day and Three-Day Fevers
Aramaic
Abaye said: An expert told it to me: For a one-day fever, one should take a white glass, go to the salt pit, and take its weight as salt, and tie it to the hollow of the neck with a yellow…
Rabbinic Amulets
Reeds that are near a town have no fewer than sixty demons. A certain town official went and relieved himself among the reeds and was endangered. A certain sage came and wrote him an amulet for one…
Rebekah’s Dying Wishes
She said to him [Jacob—Ed.], “My son, throughout my entire lifetime I have noticed no improper act in you but only proper one[s]. However, I will tell you the truth, my son: I will die during this…
Esther
5. He fostered Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she had neither father nor mother, and the girl was fair and beautiful; and with the death of her father and…
Moses’ Prayer after the Sin of the Golden Calf
And then Moses went up to the mountain and prayed to the Lord, saying, “Behold now, you O God, who have planted this vine and set its roots into the abyss and stretched out its shoots to your most…
Isaac Blesses Levi and Judah
He turned to Levi first and began to bless him first. He said to him, “May the Lord of everything—he is the Lord of all ages—bless you and your sons throughout all ages.
May the Lord give you and…
The Ten “Weeks” of History
Then Enoch took up his discourse and said: I was born the seventh of the First Week, while justice and righteousness still endured. And thereafter in the Second Week great wickedness…
In the Lion’s Throat
In the days of R. Joshua ben Ḥananiah, the wicked empire [i.e., Rome] decreed that the Temple should be built. Pappas and Lulianus set up tables from Akko to Antioch and provided for those coming from…
Matrona
4:6. Matrona asked Rabbi Yose: Why is it not written “that it was good” for the second day? He said to her: Nevertheless, in the end he . . . included them all, for it is said: And God saw everything…