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“And on the day that the child learns the holy letters […], he is placed in the lap of the rabbi who is sitting and teaching him […] and they bring a slate on which the letters alef, bet, gimel, dalet are written […] and he [the rabbi] puts some honey on the slate and the boy licks the honey on the letters with his tongue”
– Rabbi Eleazar of Worms, “The Perfumer” (circa 1165-1230)