How we label every teaching
Five labels
Direct Source
The text itself says this.
The text itself says this.
Classical Interpretation
A recognized commentator explains it this way.
A recognized commentator explains it this way.
Later Tradition
A later work or teaching connects the idea to the text.
A later work or teaching connects the idea to the text.
Derash
A homiletic reading, not the plain meaning.
A homiletic reading, not the plain meaning.
Our Synthesis
A connection we’re making — and we say so.
A connection we’re making — and we say so.
Torahתּוֹרָה
Read the texts on Sefaria ↗The Five Books of Moses — Bereishit, Shemot, Vayikra, Bamidbar, Devarim. The foundation of everything.
Cited on this site (36) →
- Bamidbar 15:38–39 — Tzitzit Your Morning, Step by Step
- Bamidbar 6:24–26 — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Berachot 26b; Bereishit 24:63 — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Bereishit 19:27 — Shacharit Amidah
- Bereishit 24:63 — Mincha Amidah
- Bereishit 28:11 — Maariv Amidah
- Bereishit 28:12–15 — Today
- Bereishit 28:17 — Today
- Bereishit 2:1–3 — Kiddush
- Devarim 11:13 · Ta’anit 2a — Prayer
- Devarim 11:13–21 — Mezuzah
- Devarim 15:7–8 — Tzedakah
- Devarim 30:12–13 — Today
- Devarim 30:14 — Today
- Devarim 6:4–7 — Shema
- Devarim 6:4–9 — Mezuzah Your Morning, Step by Step
- Devarim 6:4–9 and 11:13–21 — Jewish Life 101
- Devarim 6:5–9 — Shema Your Morning, Step by Step
- Devarim 6:8 — Tefillin Your Morning, Step by Step
- Devarim 6:9 — Mezuzah
- Devarim 8:10 — Blessings
- Ramban on Devarim 30:11 — Today
- Ramban on Vayikra 11:13 — Kosher
- Rashi on Bamidbar 15:39 — Tzitzit
- Rashi on Bereishit 28:16 — Today
- Shemot 12:2 — Parashat Bereishit
- Shemot 20:12 — Honoring Parents
- Shemot 20:8 — Kiddush
- Shemot 20:8–11 — Shabbat
- Shemot 23:19 — Kosher
- Shemot 31:17 — Kiddush
- Vayikra 11:3, 11:9 — Kosher
- Vayikra 11:44 — Jewish Life 101 Kosher
- Vayikra 19:3 — Honoring Parents
- Vayikra 23:40 — Sukkot
- Vayikra 23:42–43 — Sukkot
Tanakh — Prophets & Writingsנְבִיאִים וּכְתוּבִים
Read the texts on Sefaria ↗The Prophets (Yehoshua, Shmuel, Yeshayahu, Yechezkel…) and the Writings (Tehillim, Mishlei, Iyov, Eichah…).
Cited on this site (18) →
- Berachot 10b (Yechezkel 1:7) — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Berachot 31a (Shmuel I 1:13) — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Eichah 3:23 — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Hilchot Melachim 12:5 — When the Veil Begins to Thin
- Iyov 31:2 — The Soul Tanya, Chapters 1–2
- Megillah 29a (on Yechezkel 11:16) — Going to Shul
- Mishlei 20:27 — Today
- Shmuel I 1:13 — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Tehillim 111:6 — Parashat Bereishit
- Tehillim 119:89 — Parashat Bereishit When the Veil Begins to Thin
- Tehillim 145:16 — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Tehillim 146:10 — Mincha Amidah Shacharit Amidah
- Tehillim 51:17 — Maariv Amidah Mincha Amidah Shacharit Amidah Your Morning, Step by Step
- Yechezkel 11:16 — Going to Shul
- Yechezkel 1:7 — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Yechezkel 3:12 — Mincha Amidah Shacharit Amidah
- Yehoshua 1:8 — Daily Torah
- Yeshayahu 6:3 — Mincha Amidah Shacharit Amidah
Mishnahמִשְׁנָה
Read the texts on Sefaria ↗The Oral Torah, compiled by Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi around 200 CE — including Pirkei Avot, the Ethics of the Fathers.
Cited on this site (9) →
- Mishnah Berachot 1:1–2 — Shema
- Mishnah Berachot 1:4 — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Mishnah Berachot 4:1 — The Amidah Shacharit Amidah
- Mishnah Shabbat 7:2 — Shabbat
- Pirkei Avot 1:15 — Daily Torah
- Pirkei Avot 2:1 — Today
- Pirkei Avot 2:15 — The Mitzvah Movement Today
- Pirkei Avot 2:16 — The Mitzvah Movement Start Here Today
- Pirkei Avot 4:2 — Today
Talmudתַּלְמוּד
Read the texts on Sefaria ↗The Gemara — the Sages’ discussion of the Mishnah. Cited by tractate and page (daf), e.g. Berachot 60b.
Cited on this site (40) →
- Avodah Zarah 8a — Maariv Amidah Mincha Amidah Shacharit Amidah Your Morning, Step by Step
- Bava Batra 10a — Tzedakah
- Bava Batra 9a — Tzedakah
- Berachot 10b (Yechezkel 1:7) — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Berachot 11b — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Berachot 13b — Shema
- Berachot 17a — Maariv Amidah Mincha Amidah Shacharit Amidah
- Berachot 20b — Kiddush Your Morning, Step by Step
- Berachot 26b — The Amidah Maariv Amidah Mincha Amidah Shacharit Amidah Prayer Your Morning, Step by Step
- Berachot 26b; Bereishit 24:63 — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Berachot 27b; Rambam, Hilchot Tefillah 1:6 — Maariv Amidah
- Berachot 28b — Maariv Amidah Mincha Amidah Shacharit Amidah Your Morning, Step by Step
- Berachot 31a (Shmuel I 1:13) — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Berachot 32a — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Berachot 33a — Jewish Life 101 Havdalah
- Berachot 34a — Maariv Amidah Mincha Amidah Shacharit Amidah Your Morning, Step by Step
- Berachot 35a — Blessings
- Berachot 4b — Shacharit Amidah Your Morning, Step by Step
- Berachot 57b — Shabbat
- Berachot 60b — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Berachot 6a — Jewish Life 101 Going to Shul Tefillin
- Chullin 139b — When the Veil Begins to Thin
- Devarim 11:13 · Ta’anit 2a — Prayer
- Kiddushin 30b — Honoring Parents
- Kiddushin 30b–31a — Jewish Life 101
- Kiddushin 31b — Honoring Parents
- Megillah 23b — Jewish Life 101 Going to Shul
- Megillah 29a (on Yechezkel 11:16) — Going to Shul
- Menachot 33b — Mezuzah
- Menachot 43a — Tzitzit
- Menachot 43b — Tzitzit Your Morning, Step by Step
- Pesachim 101a — Kiddush
- Pesachim 106a — Jewish Life 101 Kiddush
- Pesachim 50a — When the Veil Begins to Thin
- Pesachim 54a — Havdalah
- Shabbat 108b–109a · Orach Chaim 4:3 — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Shabbat 10b — Shabbat
- Shabbat 25b · Rambam, Hilchot Shabbat 5:1 — Shabbat
- Sotah 21a — Today
- Ta’anit 2a — Jewish Life 101
Midrashמִדְרָשׁ
Read the texts on Sefaria ↗The Sages’ interpretive teachings on the verses — Midrash Rabbah, Tanchuma, Sifrei and more.
Cited on this site (1) →
- Bereishit Rabbah 53:14 — When the Veil Begins to Thin
Rishonim — early commentatorsרִאשׁוֹנִים
Read the texts on Sefaria ↗The great medieval commentators: Rashi, Ramban, Ibn Ezra, the Rashba and others.
Cited on this site (5) →
- Ramban on Devarim 30:11 — Today
- Ramban on Vayikra 11:13 — Kosher
- Rashi on Bamidbar 15:39 — Tzitzit
- Rashi on Bereishit 28:16 — Today
- Responsa of the Rashba 1:191 — Your Morning, Step by Step
Halachah — Jewish lawהֲלָכָה
Read the texts on Sefaria ↗The codes of practice: the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah, the Tur, the Shulchan Aruch and the Rema.
Cited on this site (26) →
- Berachot 27b; Rambam, Hilchot Tefillah 1:6 — Maariv Amidah
- Hilchot Melachim 12:5 — When the Veil Begins to Thin
- Hilchot Tefillah 1:1 — Jewish Life 101
- Hilchot Tefillah 1:2 — The 5-Minute Jewish Morning
- Orach Chaim 106:2 — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Orach Chaim 298:3 — Havdalah
- Rambam, Hilchot Mezuzah 6:13 — Mezuzah
- Rambam, Hilchot Talmud Torah 1:8 — Daily Torah
- Rambam, Hilchot Tefillah 1:1 — Prayer
- Rambam, Hilchot Tefillah 1:2 — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Rambam, Matnot Aniyim 10:4 — Tzedakah
- Rema, Yoreh De’ah 289:6 — Mezuzah
- Shabbat 108b–109a · Orach Chaim 4:3 — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Shabbat 25b · Rambam, Hilchot Shabbat 5:1 — Shabbat
- Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 1:1 — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 25:1 — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 25:5 — Tefillin
- Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 299:10 — Havdalah
- Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 47:1 — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 4:1–2 — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De’ah 251:3 — Tzedakah
- Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De’ah 286:22 — Mezuzah
- Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De’ah 289:2 — Mezuzah
- Tur, Orach Chaim 46 — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Yoreh De’ah 291:1 — Mezuzah
- Yoreh De’ah 89:1 — Kosher
Acharonim — later authoritiesאַחֲרוֹנִים
Read the texts on Sefaria ↗Later commentators and codifiers: the Magen Avraham, the Mishnah Berurah and others.
Cited on this site (1) →
- Seder HaYom (16th century) — Your Morning, Step by Step
Zoharזֹהַר
Read the texts on Sefaria ↗The central work of Kabbalah — the mystical commentary on the Torah.
Cited on this site (1) →
- Zohar III 103b–104a — Sukkot
Tanya & Chassidutתַּנְיָא
Read the texts on Sefaria ↗The Alter Rebbe’s map of the soul, and the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov, Rabbi Nachman and the Chassidic masters.
Cited on this site (4) →
- Likutei Moharan II:25 — Your Morning, Step by Step
- Tanya, ch. 17 — Today
- Tanya, chapter 5 — Daily Torah
- Tanya, chs. 18–19 — Today
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