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.
The Course of Pregnancy
Hebrew
The rabbis taught: During the first three months, the embryo occupies the lowest dwelling chamber; during the middle [three months], it occupies the middle dwelling chamber; and during the last…
The Book of the Mysteries
The name of the first firmament is called Shamayim. Within it are encampments filled with wrath. And seven thrones are prepared there and upon them are seated overseers, and around them on all sides…
Moses and Joseph as Scribes
Next after Manetho, I wish to inquire into Cheremon, for this man also, while claiming to write the Egyptian history, and having given the same name for the king as Manetho, that being Amenophis, as…
Laments of Baruch for the Destruction of Jerusalem
[ . . . ] I, Baruch, came back and sat in front of the doors of the Temple, and I raised the following lamentation over Zion and said:
Blessed is he who was not born,or he who was born…
Azariah’s Prayer in the Furnace
They walked around in the midst of the flames, singing hymns to God and blessing the Lord. Then Azariah stood still in the fire and prayed aloud:
“Blessed are you, O Lord, God of our ancestors, and…
Lament of Jephthah’s Daughter
And when the daughter of Jephthah came to Mount Stelac, she began to weep, and this is her lamentation that she lamented and wept over herself before she departed. And she said,
“Hear, you mountains…
Phoenix, Guardian of the World
And taking me, he led me where the sun goes forth. And he showed me a chariot drawn by four horses and fire underneath it. And upon the chariot sat a man wearing a fiery crown. The chariot was drawn…
A King with Two Gardens
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea (Exodus 14:27). Immediately the sea began to withstand him. Moses ordered it in the name of the Holy One, blessed be He, to divide itself but it would not…
Rebuilding the Temple
When they heard the blast of the trumpets, the Samaritans, who happened to be enemies of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, came running together, wanting to learn the cause of the uproar. Perceiving…
Mishnah Yevamot
Though these [Beth Hillel] forbid and these [Beth Shammai] permit, and these disqualify and these make eligible, Beth Shammai did not refrain from marrying women from [the families of]…
Tosefta Avodah Zarah
3. One should dwell in the land of Israel, even in a town in which the majority of the inhabitants are gentiles, rather than dwell outside the land [of Israel], even in a town in which all the…