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Documentos para todo estado e ydade, e em particular para abituar bem os moços desde sua moçidade â vertude (Documents for Every State and Age, and in Particular to Accustom Young Men from Their Youth to Virtue)
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 Turn from evil and do good. Beloved Son. The great esteem in which I hold you and my intense desire for your welfare have prompted me to draw up this list of virtues as an antidote against the…

Contributor:

Isaac de Matatia Aboab

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1685

Subjects:

Family, Children, Life cycle, Charity, Oral Torah, Ethics, Law, Wills & testaments

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Law, Wills, Testaments & Bequests, Science & philosophy, Ethics
Shene luḥot ha-berit (Two Tablets of the Covenant): On Rearing Children
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A crucial and fundamental principle is the proper rearing of children. The Torah has stated: And you shall teach them [the words of Torah] to your children (Deuteronomy 11:19), for that is the…

Contributor:

Isaiah Horowitz

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

ca. 1623

Subjects:

Education, Children, Adolescence, Parenthood, Punishment, Ethics

Categories:

Pedagogy & Schooling, Science & philosophy, Ethics
Lev tov (A Good Heart): Rules for Raising Children
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[ . . . ] Each man should raise his children to Torah and good deeds. Each man should always ensure that his children learn Torah while they are still young and he should have them learn…

Contributor:

Isaac ben Eliyakim of Posen

Places:

Prague, Holy Roman Empire

Date:

1620

Subjects:

Education, Children, Parenthood, Ethics, Piety

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Ethics