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.
Abraham’s Prayer for Isaac’s Descendants
And Abraham worshipped and prayed in the name of the Memra of the Lord and said: “I beseech by the mercy that is before you, O Lord:—everything is manifest and known before you—that there was no…
Moses’ Prayer to Enter the Land
When Moses sought to enter the land of Israel, the Holy One said: Enough! (Deuteronomy 3:26). He [Moses] replied before Him: Master of the universe, did You not say to me, “To one who has a claim on…
Tamar’s Prayer for Justification
And Tamar went out to be burned by fire and she asked for the three witnesses, but did not find them. She lifted up her eyes on high and said: “I beseech by the mercies from before you, O Lord, you…
Naḥum of Gam Zu (Naḥum Ish Gamzu)
They said about Naḥum of Gam Zu that he was blind in both eyes, both his arms were amputated, both his legs were amputated, and his entire body was covered in boils. And he was lying in a dilapidated…
Judith
Now in those days Judith heard about these things. [ . . . ] Her husband Manasseh, who belonged to her tribe and family, had died during the barley harvest. [ . . . ] Judith remained as…
under the Law
22. Once R. Eleazar b. Damma was bitten by a snake. Jacob of Kefar Samma came to heal him in the name of Yeshua b. Pantera [i.e., Jesus], but R. Ishmael would not let him.
He [R. Ishmael] said, “You…
Mishnah Sanhedrin
1. Once the verdict has been sealed, they take him out to stone him. The place of stoning was outside the courthouse, as it is said: Take out the blasphemer (Leviticus 24:14). One…
Yerushalmi Nedarim
R. Simeon ben Lakish discoursed: If one were to know that taking a vow of abstinence is like putting one’s neck in an iron collar would one take a vow? It is like a guard who passes a fortress and…
Genesis Rabbah Proems
1. R. Oshaya began: I was beside him as an ’amon. I was his delight every day [ . . . ] (Proverbs 8:30). ’Amon [may mean] “a tutor” [lit., a pedagogue]; ’amon [may mean] “covered”; ’amon [may mean]…
Antiochus III Rewards the Jews
King Antiochus to Ptolemy [probably Ptolemy, son of Thraseas, governor of Coele-Syria under Antiochus III] sends a greeting.
“Since the Jews, upon our first entrance into their country, demonstrated…
Parthian Invasion, Phasael’s Death, and Herod’s Flight to Rome
Two years later, Barzaphanes, the Parthian satrap, together with the king’s son, Pacorus, occupied Syria. Lysanias had now inherited the principality of Chalcis on the…
Antipas as Tetrarch
Now Herod the tetrarch, who was in great favor with Tiberius, built a city and called it Tiberias. He built it in the best part of Galilee, at the lake of Gennesareth, which is near a village called…