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.
Mishnah Ketubbot
10. There are three lands with regard to marriage: Judaea, Transjordan, and the Galilee.
We do not require [a spouse to move] from a village to a village or from a town to a town. But within the same…
Yerushalmi Kil’ayim
R. Simeon ben Lakish said: I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living (Psalm 116:9). But are not the lands of the living Tyre and its environs, Caesarea and its environs, [for] there…
Sifra
[But every purification offering whose blood is brought to the tent of meeting to make atonement in the holy place, it shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire (Leviticus 6:23).]
Puri…
Introductory Summary of the Period
When Joshua dismissed the people, the Israelites went to their allotted territories and took possession of the land. The people served the Lord during the lifetime of Joshua and the lifetime of the…
The Fall of the Southern Kingdom of Judah
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; his mother’s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. He did what was…
Jonah
The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim judgment upon it; for their wickedness has come before Me.
Jonah, however, started…
Sexual Morality
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to the Israelite people and say to them:
I the Lord am your God. You shall not copy the practices of the land of Egypt where you dwelt, or of the land of…
The Firstfruits Ceremony
When you enter the land that the Lord your God is giving you as a heritage, and you possess it and settle in it, you shall take some of every first fruit of the soil, which you harvest from the land…
Against Idolatry and Human Arrogance
O House of Jacob!
Come, let us walk
By the light of the Lord.
For you have forsaken [the ways of] your people,
O House of Jacob!
For they are full [of practices] from the East,
And of soothsaying…
Zion will Welcome Back Her People
Shout, O heavens, and rejoice, O earth!
Break into shouting, O hills!
For the Lord has comforted His people,
And has taken back His afflicted ones in love. [ . . . ]
Swiftly your children are…
The People Have No Future in Their Land
The word of the Lord came to me:
You are not to marry and not to have sons and daughters in this place. For thus said the Lord concerning any sons and daughters that may be born in this place, and…
The Fall of Jerusalem and the Fate of Jeremiah
In the ninth year of King Zedekiah of Judah, in the tenth month, King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon moved against Jerusalem with his whole army, and they laid siege to it. And in the…