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.
One Who Rebels against the Sanhedrin, “The Rebellious Elder”
An elder rebelling against the ruling of the court [is strangled], for it says: If a case is too baffling for you to decide [ . . . you shall promptly repair to the place that the Lord your God will…
The Water Libation Ceremony
1. The flute was for five or six days. This refers to the flute at the place of the water drawing, which does not override the Sabbath or the festival day. They said: He who has not seen the rejoicing…
Conflicting Rulings
A bolt which has a knob at one end: R. Eliezer forbids it [to be moved, due to a Sabbath prohibition], but R. Yosi permits it. R. Eliezer said: It happened in a synagogue in Tiberias that they were…
A Lament for Yom Kippur
We have no high priest
to atone for us;
how shall we be expiated
on account of our misdeeds?…
The Sayings of “The Four Who Entered the Garden (Pardes)”
3:13. R. Akiva said: Merriment and frivolity accustom one to sexual licentiousness. Tradition is a fence to the Torah. Tithes [are] a fence to wealth. Vows [are] a fence to abstinence. A fence to…
Examples of Agricultural Practices
2. They may manure and hoe cucumbers and gourds until Rosh Hashanah. So too with regard to irrigated fields. They may remove flaws from trees, strip off leaves, cover roots with earth, and fumigate…
Discontinuation of the Sotah Ordeal
When murderers multiplied, the [ceremony of] breaking a heifer’s neck ceased. That was from the time of Eliezer ben Dinai, who was also called Teḥinah ben Perishah and was later renamed “son of the…
Yerushalmi Gittin
If he transgressed and annulled [the divorce document]? Let us hear from the following: If he annulled, it is annulled, the words of Rabbi. Rabban Simeon ben Gamaliel says: He can neither annul it nor…