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.
Rabbinic Descriptions of the Second Temple Structure
1:3. There were five gates to the Temple Mount: the two Huldah Gates on the south, which were used for both entrance and exit; the Kiponus Gate on the west, which was used for both entrance and exit…
The Admonition to Witnesses in Capital Cases
How did they admonish witnesses in capital cases? They brought them in and admonished them, [saying,] “Perhaps you will say something that is only a supposition or hearsay or secondhand, or even from…
The Obligations of a Sharecropper
If one leased a field from his fellow and the custom of the place was to cut the crops, he must cut them; if the custom was to uproot them, he must uproot…
Proper Size for a Tomb
If a man sold to his fellow a place in which to make a tomb, and likewise, if a man was commissioned by his fellow to make a tomb, he must make the inside of the vault four cubits by six and open…