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The Hebrew Bible in the Westminster Leningrad Codex with Open Scriptures morphology, and the openly licensed versions and translations of the Sefaria library: Tanakh, Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash and commentary in Hebrew, Aramaic and English, 183,584 documents, one record per chapter or daf. Every answer cites the passage and the edition it comes from, with its license; versions under other licenses are not in this collection, and it gives no halachic ruling.
Rashi opens his commentary on Genesis 1:1 with Rabbi Isaac's question: the Torah, as Israel's book of law, should have begun with Exodus 12:2, "This month shall be unto you the first of the months", the first commandment given to Israel. His answer rests on Psalm 111:6, "He declared to His people the strength of His works, in order that He might give them the heritage of the nations": the account of creation is there so that when the nations call Israel robbers for taking the land of the seven nations, Israel can answer that the whole earth belongs to the Holy One, who created it and gives it to whom He pleases. Rashi's editors trace the thought to Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 187. The library holds the comment in two editions, a 1929 translation in the public domain and a 2009 translation under CC BY, worded differently and saying the same thing.
Real, from the sealed Judaism collection, asked through the same engine the door serves, on 12 October 2026. Two editions, one Psalm, one named source: a search box returns the passage; the docent returns the chain.
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The Hebrew Bible in the Westminster Leningrad Codex (Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible), and the openly licensed versions of the Sefaria library: public domain, CC0, CC BY and CC BY-SA texts and translations of Tanakh, Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash and commentary, one record per chapter or daf, each cited to its version. Versions under other licenses are not in this collection; it gives no halachic ruling; cite the passage and the version it returns.
Sealed 2026-09-21; 183,584 documents; nothing is added, changed or removed, and a question outside the collection is answered "not in this corpus".
Scripture.
The Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain) with Open Scriptures morphology (CC BY): every word tagged, so a form finds its root.
The Sefaria library.
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Editions and versions
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Across the shelf
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What do the Midrash and the Rishonim make of the same verse, side by side?
What does the collection not contain on this question?
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