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.
Ruin (Red-Yellow)
After noticing the prevalence of red and pink in a 1990 catalogue of Greta Garbo’s art collection, Livneh became attracted to colors. Red and orange predominated in some of his works and were…
Tekhine (Women’s Supplication): For a Pregnant Woman
Lord of the world, my God,
I humbly beg You, with a broken heart,
And with my weak body,
To confirm my baby in Torah,
As a person of honor and riches.…
Tratado sobre Medicina . . . para seu filho levar consigo quando se foy para o Brazil (A Treatise on Medicine . . . for His Son to Take with Him When He Went to Brazil)
A sweet-water bath is a serious remedy to refresh the body from mange, itching, leprosy, melancholy, watchfulness, and thinness of the body. It is taken by a person placing himself in a vat, or…
O Lord of everything
O Lord of everything, who seeks the nation that seeks you,
Do not separate yourself from us, and we will not separate from you—O Lord of everything!
For you, O…
The Sixteenth Lamb—Songs and Stories for Children
How is a song born?
Like a baby.
At first it hurts
But then, it comes out
And everyone is happy
And suddenly—
How wonderful!
It’s walking
All on its own.
How is a song born?
Like…
Ivory Spoon
This spoon from Hazor has a wide handle intricately incised on its front with a sequence of palmettes curving upward instead of the more common downward-turning volutes. The spoon’s use is unclear. It…
Joseph
Now Jacob was settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan. This, then, is the line of Jacob:
At seventeen years of age, Joseph tended…
The End of Zionism
It is standard fare at Zionist assemblies to declare that Israel belongs to all Jews, wherever they live. As a ritual to be trotted out on Sabbaths and festivals (and the atmosphere at Zionist…
Artaxerxes Authorizes Ezra to Lead Another Group to Jerusalem
After these events, during the reign of King Artaxerxes of Persia, Ezra son of Seraiah son of Azariah son of Hilkiah son of Shallum son of Zadok son of Ahitub son of Amariah son of Azariah son of…
Jeremiah’s Trial and Rescue
At the beginning of the reign of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah, this word came from the Lord:
“Thus said the Lord: Stand in the court of the House of the Lord, and speak to [the men of] all…
Individual Responsibility and Recompense
The word of the Lord came to me: What do you mean by quoting this proverb upon the soil of Israel, “Parents eat sour grapes and their children’s teeth are blunted”? As I live—declares the Lord God…