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.
Isaiah’s Prophetic Commission
In the year that King Uzziah died, I beheld my Lord seated on a high and lofty throne; and the skirts of His robe filled the Temple. Seraphs stood in attendance on Him. Each of them had six wings…
A Message of Hope to the Judeans
Listen to Me, you who pursue justice,
You who seek the Lord:
Look to the rock you were hewn from,
To the quarry you were dug from.
Look back to Abraham your father
And to Sarah who brought you…
Poland and the Jews: Inescapable Issues
I prefer to speak of Poland and the Jews rather than Poles and Jews, the latter threatening to limit my freedom of movement within the present subject-matter. Poland and the Jews leaves ample room for…
Retribution and Divine Justice
Thus said the Lord:
Cursed is he who trusts in man,
Who makes mere flesh his strength,
And turns his thoughts from the Lord.
He shall be like a bush in the desert,
Which does not sense the coming…
Prophecy to the Jews Who Fled to Egypt
The word which came to Jeremiah for all the Judeans living in the land of Egypt, living in Migdol, Tah-panhes, and Noph, and in the land of Pathros:
Thus said the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel…
God’s Lawsuit against Israel
Hear what the Lord is saying:
Come, present [My] case before the mountains,
And let the hills hear you pleading.
Hear, you mountains, the case of the Lord—
You firm foundations of the earth!
For…
Sex, Miscegenation, and the Intermarriage Debate
I sometimes wonder if the Jewish community’s hysteria about intermarriage is actually sexual in nature, a response to the one-two punch of infidelity—sex outside of the community, and infertility—an…
Psalm 105
Praise the Lord;
call on His name;
proclaim His deeds among the peoples.
Sing praises to Him;
speak of all His wondrous acts.
Exult in His holy name;
let all who seek the Lord rejoice.
Turn to…
A Prayer for the Restoration of Judah
Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;
Behold, and see our disgrace!
Our heritage has passed to aliens,
Our homes to strangers.
We have become orphans, fatherless;
Our mothers are like widows.
W…
Elihu Speaks
These three men ceased replying to Job, for he considered himself right. Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was angry—angry at Job because he thought himself…
Jeremiah
This bronze plaque, one of the many decorative art objects produced in the workshops of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, depicts the biblical prophet Jeremiah, whose name is…