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.
To Honor One’s Parents
[The sages] raised a dilemma before R. Ulla: “How far [must one go to fulfill the mitzvah of] honoring one’s father and mother?” [R. Ulla] said to them, “Go and see what one gentile did in Ashkelon…
Susanna
There was a man living in Babylon whose name was Joakim. He married the daughter of Hilkiah, named Susanna, a very beautiful woman and one who feared the Lord. Her parents were righteous, and had…
R. Safra and the
R. Abbahu would praise R. Safra to the heretics [by saying] that he is a great man. [Therefore,] they remitted [R. Safra’s obligation to pay] taxes for thirteen years. One day they found [R. Safra and…
Mishnah Eduyyot
1:4. Why are the opinions of Hillel and Shammai recorded [only] to be nullified? To teach successive generations that they should not be insistent in their opinions, for the fathers of the world were…
Yerushalmi Sanhedrin
Said R. Yoḥanan, “One who does not know how to derive that a reptile is pure and impure in one hundred ways, may not investigate [testimony] in merit [of the defendant].”
Rabbi said, “My master had a…
Genesis Rabbah on Theodicy
8:5. R. Simeon taught: At the time when the Holy One was about to create the first human, the ministering angels formed factions and parties [of divided opinions concerning humankind’s creation]. Some…
The Flood
This is the line of Noah.—Noah was a righteous man; he was blameless in his age; Noah walked with God.—Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
The earth became corrupt before…
Samuel
There was a man from Ramathaim of the Zuphites, in the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham son of Elihu son of Tohu son of Zuph, an…
Manasseh (Chronicles)
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. He did what was displeasing to the Lord, following the abhorrent practices of the nations that the…
Hebrew Slaves
When you acquire a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years; in the seventh year he shall go free, without payment. If he came single, he shall leave single; if he had a wife, his wife shall leave…
Single Worship Site and Proper Rites
These are the laws and rules that you must carefully observe in the land that the Lord, God of your fathers, is giving you to possess, as long as you live on earth.
You must destroy all…
Circumcision
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am El Shaddai. Walk in My ways and be blameless. I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will…