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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.
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Page of four pencil drawings: a half-naked man posing, an animal figure with wings underneath figure with halo, man and angels, and soldier fighting against smaller figure.
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Four Biblical Scenes

These four etchings were made by Rembrandt van Rijn for Menasseh Ben Israel’s book, Piedra Gloriosa (Glorious Stone), a messianic treatise. Clockwise from upper left, they illustrate the biblical…
Manuscript page with Hebrew text in circular frames arranged as a diagram in the shape of a human head with crown.
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Sefirotic Diagram of the First Man

According to the colophon, Natan Hammerschlag’s Ilan de-adam kadmon (Sefirotic Diagram of the First Man) was copied from the writings of Ḥayim Vital, the most prominent disciple of Isaac Luria…

Monish

Life is like a river;we are fish.The water’s wholesome and freshand we would swim forever,but for a black figureon the riverbank.There Satan stands,in his handsa fishing rod,and catches fish.With a…

The Book of Israel

God, Robin and me had the funniest time trying to decide. I mean it was bizarre. I suppose we had always assumed we would do it, but then, well, when you actually think…

In a Nutshell

Credo in a kind of American jewish Hamlet-like bagel, too round for action yet leavened enough by contact with the near-dead past—you call it landscape, I call it history—to provide a layered vantage…

Modern Trends in Orthodoxy

Diversity is a characteristic feature of Orthodoxy today. Orthodox leaders and movements inspire the extremes of the Jewish political spectrum, from the supernationalism of Meir Kahane…

An Alternative Al Heyt

For the wrong we did before You by listening to voices at odds with what we knew was right; For the wrong we did before You by not listening to voices telling us unpleasant truths; For the wrong we…