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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.
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The Book of Pleasures

Most people are very wary of life, and try to avoid it. The conventional ways of doing this are many and varied: Don’t drop bread on the floor! Don’t waste…

Samson

The Israelites again did what was offensive to the Lord, and the Lord delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years. There was a certain man from Zorah, of the stock…

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…

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…

Don’t Join a Gang

My son, heed the discipline of your father, And do not forsake the instruction of your mother; For they are a graceful wreath upon your head, A necklace about your throat. My son, if sinners…

God’s Attributes

The Lord came down in a cloud; He stood with him there, and proclaimed the name Lord. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed: “The Lord! the Lord!a God compassionate and gracious, slow to…