Sources
Every person and text the daily study draws on, from the Bible to film.
Bible
- Book of Genesis
- Book of Exodus
- Book of Deuteronomy
- Book of Proverbs
- Book of Psalms
- Book of Isaiah
- Book of Jeremiah
- Book of 2 Kings
- Book of Job
- Book of Micah
- Book of Numbers
- Song of Songs
- Book of Chronicles
- Book of Daniel
- Book of Esther
- Book of Ezekiel
- Book of Jonah
- Book of Kings
- Book of Lamentations
- Book of Leviticus
- Book of Malachi
- Book of Samuel
- Book of Zechariah
- King Saul
Talmud & Midrash
- Babylonian Talmud
- Maimonides
- Mishnah
- Genesis Rabbah
- Rabbi Akiva
- Pirkei Avot
- Rabbi Yochanan
- Yalkut Shimoni
- Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Shabbat
- Ben Zoma
- Esther Rabbah
- Hillel the Elder
- Honi the Circle Maker
- Jerusalem Talmud
- Kohelet Rabbah
- Mekhilta
- Midrash Leviticus Rabbah
- Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel
- Rabbi Elazar
- Rabbi Elazar ben Pedat
- Rabbi Hama son of Hanina
- Rabbi Hanina ben Dosa
- Rabbi Hanina ben Teradyon
- Rabbi Levi
- Rabbi Meir
- Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch
- Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar
- Rabbi Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller
- Rashi
- Rav Hisda
- Shimon ben Shetach
- Song of Songs Rabbah
- Tosafot
- Tractate Bava Kamma
- Tractate Gittin
- Vilna Gaon
- Yom Kippur Liturgy
Jewish thought
- Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook
- Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
- The Zohar
- Judah Halevi
- Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
- Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi
- A. D. Gordon
- Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
- Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
- Adon Olam
- Baal Shem Tov
- Bahya ibn Paquda
- Hillel Zeitlin
- Isaac Luria
- Leon Pinsker
- Maharal of Prague
- Rabbi Chaim Vital
- Rabbi David Levi
- Rabbi Hasdai Crescas
- Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter
- Toledot Yeshu
- Yeshayahu Leibowitz
- Ze'ev Jabotinsky
Philosophy
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Immanuel Kant
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Baruch Spinoza
- Hannah Arendt
- Laozi
- Augustine of Hippo
- Bhagavad Gita
- Carl Jung
- Emmanuel Levinas
- Jean Baudrillard
- Jürgen Habermas
- Karl Marx
- René Girard
- Seneca
- Sun Tzu
- Thomas Hobbes
- Aldo Leopold
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Blaise Pascal
- Carl von Clausewitz
- David Hume
- Diogenes
- Erich Fromm
- Étienne de La Boétie
- Frantz Fanon
- Friedrich Engels
- Gautama Buddha
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Henri Bergson
- Henry David Thoreau
- Isaiah Berlin
- Jacques Derrida
- Jacques Lacan
- Jean Améry
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
- Jean Buridan
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Jesus
- Lawrence Lessig
- Lucretius
- Marcus Aurelius
- Martin Heidegger
- Michael Walzer
- Nancy Fraser
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Roland Barthes
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Simone Weil
- Socrates
- Thales of Miletus
- Thomas Aquinas
- Thomas Carlyle
- Viktor Frankl
- Walter Benjamin
- William James
- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
- Zhuangzi
Literature & poetry
- Franz Kafka
- William Shakespeare
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- George Orwell
- Hayim Nahman Bialik
- Naomi Shemer
- Nathan Alterman
- Alexander Pushkin
- C. S. Lewis
- Ehud Manor
- Emily Dickinson
- George Bernard Shaw
- Heinrich Heine
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Jalal al-Din Rumi
- Leonard Cohen
- Victor Hugo
- Yehuda Amichai
- Alan Lightman
- Alexander Penn
- Amashi Levin
- Anatole France
- Arik Einstein
- Brothers Grimm
- Charles Baudelaire
- Charles Dickens
- Chuck Palahniuk
- Dan Almagor
- Dante Alighieri
- David Foster Wallace
- E. L. Doctorow
- Edmond Rostand
- Eliezer Steinman
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- Euripides
- Fernando Pessoa
- Frank Herbert
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- George Herbert
- Georges Moustaki
- Giovanni Battista Giraldi
- Hanoch Levin
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Hesiod
- Homer
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Ian McEwan
- Itzik Weingarten
- J. K. Rowling
- Jacques Brel
- Joan Didion
- Joshua Sobol
- Juvenal
- Kahlil Gibran
- Kobi Niv
- Leah Goldberg
- Levin Kipnis
- Lucian of Samosata
- Marcel Proust
- Mark Twain
- Matsuo Bashō
- Maya Angelou
- Mendele Mocher Sforim
- Motti Hamer
- Naftali Herz Imber
- Nathan Zach
- One Thousand and One Nights
- Oscar Wilde
- Ovid
- Rabbi Elchanan Nir
- Rachel Shapira
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Rivka Miriam
- Roxane Gay
- S. An-sky
- Shaul Tchernichovsky
- Sholem Aleichem
- Stanisław Lem
- Sylvia Plath
- Thomas Mann
- Umberto Eco
- V. C. Andrews
- Virginia Woolf
- W. Somerset Maugham
- William Golding
- William Goldman
- Yael Neeman
- Yehiel Halperin
- Zelda
Art & film
- Christopher Nolan
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Aviv Geffen
- Chava Alberstein
- Daniel Sambursky
- Francis Bacon
- Jacques-Louis David
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- Shalom Hanoch
- Star Wars
- Steven Spielberg
- The Godfather
- WarGames
- 12 Years a Slave
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Adi Nes
- Akira Kurosawa
- Alison Bechdel
- Amadeus
- American Beauty
- Annibale Carracci
- Ariel Zilber
- Arik Lavie
- Asghar Farhadi
- Auguste Rodin
- Banksy
- Barry Levinson
- Before Sunrise
- Berry Sakharof
- Birds' Head Haggadah
- Black Mirror
- Bob Dylan
- Bong Joon-ho
- Charles C. Ebbets
- Charlie Brooker
- Charlie Chaplin
- Column of the Immaculate Conception
- David Lynch
- Diego Rivera
- Doris Dörrie
- Dudu Aharon
- Ecclesia and Synagoga
- Eden Meiri
- Edward Hopper
- Edward Poynter
- Ephraim Kishon
- Eretz Nehederet
- Eugène Delacroix
- Evgeny Vuchetich
- Eyal Shani
- Federico Fellini
- Field of Dreams
- Forgiving Dr. Mengele
- Francisco Goya
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Frank Sinatra
- Franz Schubert
- Frédéric Chopin
- Gabriel Axel
- George Frederic Watts
- Georges Seurat
- Gioachino Rossini
- Giuseppe Angeli
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Gustav Mahler
- HaGashash HaHiver
- Han van Meegeren
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Her
- Hieronymus Bosch
- Honoré Daumier
- House of Cards
- Ingmar Bergman
- Inside Out
- Into the Wild
- Inventing Anna
- James Bond
- Jan van Eyck
- John Cage
- John Lennon
- John Martin
- Joker
- Jon Favreau
- Justin Timberlake
- La La Land
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Long Story Short
- Louis Armstrong
- Manchester by the Sea
- Marty Supreme
- Meir Ariel
- Mercedes Sosa
- Message in a Bottle
- Michael Haneke
- Michelangelo
- Mr. Nobody
- Nick Cave
- Nurit Hirsh
- Odysseus Taking Leave of Calypso
- Ordinary People
- Patsy Cline
- Paul Anka
- Paul Simon
- Philipp Meuser
- Pink Floyd
- Planet of the Apes
- Pleasantville
- Quentin Tarantino
- Ratatouille
- René Magritte
- Reuven Rubin
- Richard Wagner
- Ridley Scott
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Ronit Elkabetz
- Seven Pounds
- Shlomi Elkabetz
- Sofia Coppola
- Squid Game
- Stephen Sondheim
- The Bear
- The Beatles
- The King's Speech
- The Lives of Others
- The Machinist
- The Man Who Fell to Earth
- The Man Who Sued God
- The Matrix
- The Shawshank Redemption
- The Truman Show
- The Wave
- Thomas Nast
- Tim Burton
- West Side Story
- Whiplash
- Wim Wenders
- Woody Allen
- Yehuda Poliker
- Yehudit Ravitz
- Yoko Ono
- Yossi Banai
History & society
- Mahatma Gandhi
- David Ben-Gurion
- Georg Simmel
- Gospel of Matthew
- Margaret Mead
- Shoshana Zuboff
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Adolf Hitler
- Aharon Barak
- Alexander Slepkov
- Amartya Sen
- Anita Shapira
- Aviad Kleinberg
- Balfour Declaration
- Barack Obama
- Barbara Tuchman
- Benjamin Halevy
- Boaz Ganor
- Bobby Sands
- Brundtland Report
- Charles Dana Wilber
- Constantine Zurayk
- Dale Carnegie
- David Graeber
- Dorit Beinisch
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Edict of Cyrus
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
- Elyakim Rubinstein
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Esther Hayut
- Eva Kor
- Evidence Ordinance (Israel)
- Fourth Geneva Convention
- Frédéric Bastiat
- George C. Marshall
- George Washington
- Gospel of John
- Hadrian
- Harriet Tubman
- Heinrich von Treitschke
- Herodotus
- Jane Jacobs
- Jared Diamond
- Jaron Lanier
- Joseph Nye
- Larousse Gastronomique
- Lewis Mumford
- Lilac Sigan
- Marion Wallace Dunlop
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Merav Michaeli
- Merneptah Stele
- Mesha Stele
- Mordechai Vanunu
- Neville Chamberlain
- Nir Avieli
- Norbert Elias
- Plutarch
- Reparations Agreement between Israel and West Germany
- Richard Sennett
- Ron Jones
- Sarah Banet-Weiser
- Shmuel Warshavsky
- Sir Edward Coke
- Spartacus
- Tacitus
- Thorstein Veblen
- Turnus Rufus
- United States Constitution
- Václav Havel
- Vegetius
- Victor Turner
- Vilfredo Pareto
- William "Boss" Tweed
- Winston Churchill
- Writ of Excommunication against Baruch Spinoza
- Yehiel Michel Pines
- Yitzhak Rabin
- Yitzhak Zamir
Science
- Sigmund Freud
- Bessel van der Kolk
- Abraham Maslow
- Annenberg Public Policy Center
- Arthur Aron
- Benjamin Libet
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Wheatstone
- Christiaan Huygens
- Eldar Shafir
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
- Esther Perel
- Johannes Kepler
- John Archibald Wheeler
- John Bowlby
- John Gottman
- Martin Seligman
- Mary Ainsworth
- Oren Harman
- Philip Zimbardo
- Robert Trivers
- Sendhil Mullainathan
- Simon Baron-Cohen
- Stanley Milgram
- V. S. Ramachandran