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.
Pharisees and Ritual Purity
The garments of an ‘am ha’arets [a common person] possess midras-impurity for Pharisees.
The garments of Pharisees possess midras-impurity for those who eat terumah [gifts for…
Worthy and Unworthy Professions
R. Judah said: An unmarried man must not tend cattle, nor may two unmarried men sleep together under the same cover. But the sages permit it. One whose business is with women must not be alone with…
A Post-Mosaic Festival
R. Jeremiah in the name of R. Samuel bar R. Isaac: What did Mordecai and Esther do? They wrote a letter and sent [it] to our rabbis. They [Mordecai and Esther] said to them [the rabbis], “Do you…
Legal Bills of Divorce
Any get which is not written [expressly] for the woman [for whom it is intended] is invalid. How is this so? If a man was passing through the street and heard the voice of a scribe dictating, “So-and…
Menstrual Impurity
1. Shammai says: For all women it suffices [to reckon] their [period of menstrual uncleanness from] their time [of discovering the flow].
Hillel ruled: [Their period of…