Sources and labels

Who we are

JewTok is a portal for Jewish people exploring whether Yeshua (Jesus) is the Messiah. We're believers in Yeshua, and we want this to be an invitation, not an attack. We respect the Jewish people, Jewish tradition and every reader who disagrees with us.

Hebrew text

The Hebrew is the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain), from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible project. Where the written text (ketiv) and the read text (qere) differ, we show the written form with the read form in brackets. Transliteration is our own simplified system; God's name YHWH is rendered "ADONAI", as it's read aloud.

Translations

The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation (Jewish Publication Society, 1917), public domain, from the Open Siddur Project via Sefaria. In that digital text we removed 13 stray footnote letters that had been glued to words (for example "athey" in Zechariah 12:10 is printed "they" with a footnote mark); nothing else is changed. World Messianic Bible (the World English Bible Messianic Edition), public domain, which uses Hebrew names such as Yeshua. World English Bible (public domain) as an alternate English text.

Verse numbers

For the Tanakh we follow Hebrew verse numbers. English Bibles sometimes differ by a verse (for example Isaiah 9:5 in Hebrew is 9:6 in English); we show both where it matters.

Testimony videos

Every video is embedded from YouTube, never copied. We list a video only after checking that it's a person telling their own story (or a clearly labelled teaching), that it isn't a re-enactment or AI-generated, that it's family-safe and that its channel doesn't attack Jewish people. Our one-line summaries come from the video's own title and description. We can't verify every detail of someone's life, so testimonies are labelled as personal accounts.

Photos and illustrations

Photos are licensed stock photographs of real places and objects. Our pictures are licensed photos and original artwork.

Rabbinic sources

We cite the Targums, Talmud, Midrash and medieval commentators by their standard references so you can check them yourself, for example on Sefaria.