Emunath Yisrael [ethics, including educational methodologies]. With Yiddish translation.

TIKUS, GEDALIAH

Hertz Levi Rofe

Amsterdam

1764

FIRST EDITION. Includes prayers attributed to Isaac Luria.

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1835

The author was a pedagogue who followed the advice of the Mahra”l of Prague and the Shela”h ha-Kadosh that children should first be taught the 613 commandments before embarking upon the more challenging study of Talmud. This novel pedagogic methods is described in detail in his Torath Katan, published a year after the present work, expounding for parents how best to educate their children.