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.
The Numerical Sayings
7. [There are] seven things [characteristic] in a clod, and seven in a wise man:
- A wise man does not speak before one who is greater than he in wisdom.He does not break into his fellow’s speech.He is…
The Importance of Practical Education
All practices, employments, and studies, for us, refer back to piety toward God; for [Moses] did not leave any of these phenomena unexamined or indeterminate. All education and the training of habits…
Supervising Agricultural Workers
If one hired laborers and told them to work early or to work late, he has no right to compel them to do so where the custom is not to work early or not to work late. In a place where the custom is to…
Prayer for Commercial Success
May it be the will before You, Eternal our God and God of our fathers, that this year be a year of low prices, a year of satiety, a year of trade, a year of rains, sunshine, and dew, and that your…
Pilgrim Numbers on Passover
As long as Cestius Gallus was busy in Syria with the administration of his province, no one dared to approach him with a formal complaint against Florus. But when he visited Jerusalem at the start of…
Fighting on the Sabbath
At that time many who were seeking righteousness and justice went down to the wilderness to live there, they, their sons, their wives, and their livestock, because troubles pressed heavily upon…
Betrothal
A man can betroth [a woman] through himself or through his agent. A woman may be betrothed through herself or through her agent. A man may give his daughter in betrothal when a young girl [either]…
Burial Epitaphs
Weep for me, stranger, a maiden ripe for marriage, who formerly shone in a great house. For, together with my bridal garments, I, untimely, have received this hateful…
Abel and the Twelve Tribes
And Abraham said, “My lord Commander-in-chief, who is this all-wondrous judge? And who are the angels who are recording? And who is the sunlike angel who holds the balance? And who is the fiery angel…
Jesus Debates the Sadducees on Resurrection
Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that ‘if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, the man…
Torments of the Soul after Death
I answered and said, “If I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, show this also to your servant: whether after death, as soon as everyone of us yields up the soul, we shall be kept in rest until…
Healing with Objects and Whispering
Hebrew
These are the permitted things [to do]: [ . . . ] One may pass [healing items] over the bowels on the Sabbath. R. Simeon ben Gamaliel used to say: With an item that is permitted to be handled…