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.
Physical Labor Is Divine
Do not hate hard labor or farm work, which was created by the Most High.
Translation from the New Revised Standard Version.
Deed of Gift from Babatha’s Husband, Judah, to His Daughter
In the consulship of Publius Metilius Nepos for the second time and Marcus Annius Libo sixteen days before the kalends of May, according to the compute of the new province year twenty-third on the…
Shavuot as the Date of the Giving of the Torah
The sages taught: On the sixth [day] of the month [of Sivan], the Ten Commandments were given to the Israelites. R. Yosi says: On the seventh [day] of [the month]. Rava said: Everyone agrees [that the…
Good Deeds and Sins Accompany the Dead
R. Samuel bar Naḥmani said R. Jonathan said: Anyone who fulfills one commandment in this world, that commandment precedes him and goes before him in the world to come, as it is said: And your…
Healthy Ways of Living
Hebrew
If one does the following six things, he will die immediately: if one comes weary from a journey, let blood, entered a bathhouse, drank and became drunk, slept on the…
External Factors That Affect the Fetus
Aramaic
A woman who has intercourse in a [public] mill will have epileptic children.
[A woman] who has intercourse on the ground will have children with…
Aseneth Succumbs to Joseph’s Charm
Aseneth [ . . . ] despised and rejected all the men who courted her, and she was arrogant and superior to everyone. Indeed, no man had ever seen her, because she resided in a tower which adjoined…
David’s Praise for Deliverance
Spoken by David After Receiving God’s Grace When He Delivered Him from the Lion and the Wolf and Those Two He Killed by His Hands.
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Daniel’s Penitential Prayer for Judean Restoration
In the first year of Darius son of Ahasuerus, by birth a Mede, who became king over the realm of the Chaldeans— in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years…
Lament for Sitis, Job’s Wife
Who is not amazed that this is Sitis, the wife of Job?
Who used to have fourteen draperies sheltering her chamber and a door within doors, so that one was considered quite worthy merely to gain…
The Grapevine in the Garden of Eden
And the angel said to me, “When God made the garden and commanded Michael to gather two hundred thousand and three angels so that they could plant the garden, Michael planted the olive and Gabriel…