AUERBACH, ISAAC. Girsa di-Yenuka [Hebrew grammar for children]

AUCTION 33 |
Tuesday, June 20th,
2006 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Including Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Autograph Letters
Lot 38
(CHILDREN’S LITERATURE)
AUERBACH, ISAAC. Girsa di-Yenuka [Hebrew grammar for children]
Wilhermsdorf : Hirsch b. Chaim of Fuerth 1718
Est: $200 - $300
PRICE REALIZED $550
The exercises in this Hebrew grammar - and in many others to come - involve conjugating the verb PKD, “to command.” An interesting anecdote is told concerning Rabbi Kook, Chief Aschkenazic Rabbi of Eretz Israel, who is reputed to have said in jest: “I am unable to dictate and command others (“pakod pakadeti”) - for I did not learn Hebrew grammar from this exercise book.”