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.
Abel and the Twelve Tribes
And Abraham said, “My lord Commander-in-chief, who is this all-wondrous judge? And who are the angels who are recording? And who is the sunlike angel who holds the balance? And who is the fiery angel…
Jesus Debates the Sadducees on Resurrection
Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that ‘if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, the man…
Torments of the Soul after Death
I answered and said, “If I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, show this also to your servant: whether after death, as soon as everyone of us yields up the soul, we shall be kept in rest until…
Healing with Objects and Whispering
Hebrew
These are the permitted things [to do]: [ . . . ] One may pass [healing items] over the bowels on the Sabbath. R. Simeon ben Gamaliel used to say: With an item that is permitted to be handled…
What Constitutes Forbidden Magic?
When R. Eliezer fell sick, R. Akiva and his companions went to visit him [ . . . ] [and R. Eliezer said,] “I have studied three hundred”—and some state three thousand—“rulings about the planting of…
Boundaries of the Land Promised to Abraham
Now I, Abram, grew tremendously in many flocks and also in silver and gold. I went up from Egy[p]t, [and] my brother’s son [Lot wen]t with me. Lot had also acquired for himself many…
Job’s Suffering
[Pharaoh said:] Come, let us deal wisely with him [the Israelites—Ed.], [lest he multiply, and it come to pass that when there befalls us any war, he will also join our enemies and fight against us…
David’s Prayer for Deliverance
Spoken by David After Fighting Against the Lion and the Wolf Which Took Sheep from His Flocks.
O God, O God, come to my help;
assist me and save me;
and deliver me from the killers.
Shall I…
Abraham Blesses Jacob
Then he summoned Jacob into the presence of his mother Rebekah, kissed him, blessed him, and said, “My dear son Jacob whom I myself love, may God bless you from above the firmament. May he give…
Nebuchadnezzar Dreams of Four Great Empires
“You were looking, O king, and lo! there was a great statue. This statue was huge, its brilliance extraordinary; it was standing before you, and its appearance was frightening. The head of that…
The Four Who Entered Pardes
The sages taught: Four entered the orchard [pardes], and they are as follows: Ben Azzai; and ben Zoma; Aḥer, [the “other,” a name for Elisha ben Abuya]; and R. Akiva. R. Akiva, [the senior among them…