The Author included the chapters from his "Torat ha-Adam" manuscript even though "they are of a different genre than that which is appropriate for a Talmudic author, and are really literary essays that are more appropriate for a Hebrew author... it was my desire to append them to this volume so they too will see light. I have many mss. on the subject of Hebrew literature, but I know for sure they will never see light, and will surely be lost since I am now in my oId age and have not yet merited to disseminate them among Israel. When I submitted this work to the publisher, I decided to rescue a little bit from destruction" (p. 226).