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.
Michael, the Great Prince
At that time Michael, the great prince, the protector of your people, shall arise. There shall be a time of anguish, such as has never occurred since nations first came into existence. But at that…
Pharisees’ Belief in Immortality
They also believe that souls have an immortal power within them, and that under the earth there will be rewards or punishments, according to how they have pursued either virtue or vice in this life…
Description of Hell
[Here they showed Enoch the frightful place and various tortures. Word “9.”a]
And those men carried me to the northern region; and they showed me there a very frightful place; and all kinds of…
Plants and Knots
The boys go out with knots, and the son of kings with bells.
[Aramaic] What [are these] knots? Ada Mari said [in the name of] R. Naḥman bar Barukh, [in the name of] R. Ashi bar Avin, [in the name of]…
Who Is Considered a Sorcerer?
The sorcerer [mekhashef] who performs a deed is liable [to death by stoning] but not he who creates an optical illusion. R. Akiva said in the name of R. Joshua: [What is a scenario in which] two men…
Abraham and the Idols
Haran died in the presence of Terah, his father (Genesis 11:28). R. Ḥiyya taught: Terah was a maker of idols. He once went away to a certain place and placed Abraham in charge in his stead. A man came…
Solomon and the Demons
I got myself sharim and sharot, and human pleasures, shidda and shiddot (Ecclesiastes 2:8). [ . . . ]
The Master said: Here they interpreted [shidda and shiddot as—Ed.] male demons and female demons…
Baruch’s Prayer for Enlightenment
And I asked the Mighty One and said:
You alone, O Lord, knew the heights of the world beforehand and that which will happen in the times which you bring about by your word. And against the works of…
Terah Blesses Abraham
In the seventh year of the sixth week, he spoke with his father and told him that he was leaving Haran to go to the land of Canaan to see it and return to him. His father Terah said to him:
“Go in…
Rebekah Blesses Jacob
Then she lifted her face to heaven, extended her fingers, and opened her mouth. She blessed the Most High God who had created the heavens and the earth and gave him thanks and praise. She said,…
Onkelos
Onkelos bar Kalonymus converted [to Judaism. The Roman] emperor sent a troop of Roman [soldiers] after him. [Onkelos] drew them [toward him] with verses [that he cited and learned with them, and] they…