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.
The Soul Bird
Most important is to listen to the soul bird, because sometimes it calls us and we don’t hear it.
This is a shame – it wants to tell us about ourselves.
It wants to tell us about the feelings that…
The Argument
Schwebel is best known for his paintings depicting dramatic scenes set in the streets of modern cities, such as Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and New York. These tableaus often featured biblical figures or…
Shooting Targets
Shooting Targets, five photographs by Ophir that appear in the Necropolis Series, a joint work with Roi Kuper, depict Mercedes jeeps captured by the Israeli army during the Six Day War and Yom Kippur…
Hymn for the First Meal
Prepare the feast
of perfect faith,
the delight of the Holy King.
Prepare the feast of the King.
This is the feast
of the Field of Holy Apples;
the Lesser Presence and Ancient Eminence
asse…
Sefer ha-gilgulim (The Book of Reincarnations)
And now we will explain the root of Moses our Rabbi, may peace be upon him. Know that Israel was distilled in Egypt, as it was an iron furnace (Deuteronomy 4:20). And it is known that Moses…
Tratado de la verdad de la ley de Moseh y Providencia de Dios con su pueblo (Treatise on the Truth of the Law of Moses and the Providence of God with His People)
So relentless and obstinate are today’s wars among men that it often happens that after having exerted every effort and diligence to avoid being vanquished, reaching the limits of their…
Creation and the Early History of Humanity
When God began to create heaven and earth—the earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind from God sweeping over the…
Hezekiah (Chronicles)
Hezekiah became king at the age of twenty-five, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; his mother’s name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah…
Myths in Israeli Culture: Captives of a Dream
The new hybrid rightist-Jewish narrative spread into mainstream Israeli society especially strongly after the Six Day War (1967), when the right began to make deep inroads in both political and public…
The Song of Deborah
On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang:
When locks go untrimmedin Israel,
When people dedicate themselves—
Bless the Lord!
Hear, O kings! Give ear, O potentates!
I will sing, will…
The Hebrew Ornament
Cover of L’Ornement Hebreu (The Hebrew Ornament). This major work on Jewish art reproduced ornaments from medieval Hebrew illuminated manuscripts in the imperial library in St. Petersburg, Russia.