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.
Printer’s Note: Perush seder ‘avodat yom ha-kippurim (Commentary on the Order of the Service of Yom Kippur), by Moses Cordovero
Says the youth, Gedaliah, the Lord has granted me the merit to begin the work of heaven, today Wednesday, the 23rd of Tammuz, 5347 (July 29, 1587). I have fixed it for a fast and remembrance for ever…
Sifte yeshenim (Lips of the Sleepers): On the School in Amsterdam
Some time ago I came here to the holy congregation of Amsterdam and I visited the schools of the Sephardim a number of times. There I saw “giants [in scholarship]: tender children as small as…
Dāniyāl-nāmah (The Book of Daniel)
When the world wearies of day’s golden egg,
Shabrang, the dark bay steed, appears
From under the crow’s wings…