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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.
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Toledot ha-ari (Life of the Ari)

When [Isaac Luria] was sick, he blessed each companion with a suitable blessing for him, in accordance with the spark of his soul. R. Ḥayim Vital was not there with them at the time of the blessing…

Derashot (Sermons)

And now I will reveal to you why we call the Sabbath before Passover “the Great Sabbath.” Know that the minister of Egypt is Aries [the ram], and Scorpio, which is with Aries, and its angel is Samael…

Tit ha-yaven (The Miry Clay)

Now we shall begin to describe the confrontation of the King of Sweden with the King of Poland. First, the aforementioned King of Sweden came to the holy community of Posen [Poznań], a major Jewish…

Lament on the Ukrainian Massacre

[To the tune of “Adir ayom ve-nora.”]Come, dear friends, let us cry and lamentThe horrible things that have happened in these times.In the year that Messiah was expected amid tribulation [1648],Cossa…