Crossword-Solution: HEDER 5 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Being a sickly child, Mapu did not begin to study the elementary branches until he was five years old, an advanced age among people whose children were usually sent to the _Heder_ at four, to spend years upon years there that brought no joy to the student as he sat all day long bent over the great folios of the Talmud, except the joy that comes from success in study.

The following is his striking description of the _Heder_, the well-known primary school of the ghetto, when his uncle first enters him there as a pupil: "When I say house, let not the reader imagine a stone structure.

The teachers decided that we remain within the walls of the Heder most of the time, and show ourselves outside as little as possible during the period of danger.

Youths, who had no knowledge of the Russian language, were torn away from the heder or yeshibah, often from wife and children.

The two representatives of the "clergy" put up a warm defence for the traditional Jewish school, the heder, endeavoring to save it from the ministerial "supervision," which aimed at its annihilation.