Moses Pardo

Rabbi Moses ben Raphael Pardo
Personal life
Born	Unknown Jerusalem
Died	1888 Alexandria, Egypt
Nationality	Ottoman Empire
Notable work(s)	Hora'ah de-Veit Din, Shemo Moshe, Zedek u-Mishpat
Known for	Author of Hora'ah de-Veit Din, Shemo Moshe, Zedek u-Mishpat
Occupation	Rabbi, Rabbinical Emissary
Senior posting
Post	Rabbi of Alexandria

Moses ben Raphael Pardo (died 1888) was a rabbi and rabbinical emissary. He was born in Jerusalem. After serving as rabbi in Jerusalem for many years, he left the city in 1870 and traveled to North Africa on a mission on behalf of Jerusalem. On his return trip in 1871 he stopped in Alexandria and accepted an offer to serve as the rabbi of the Jewish community there, a position he held until his death. Pardo was the author of Hora'ah de-Veit Din, about the laws of divorce; ^[1] Shemo Moshe, responsa; ^[2] and Zedek u-Mishpat, novellae to Hoshen Mishpat . ^{[3] [4]}

He was a descendant of Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Azulai. ^[5]

References

1. הוראה דבית דין [Hora'ah de-Veit Din] (in Hebrew). Izmir. 1872. OCLC   233321821 . Retrieved Nov 19, 2015.
2. שמו משה [Shemo Moshe] (in Hebrew). Izmir. 1874. OCLC   233079951 . Retrieved Nov 22, 2015.
3. צדק ומשפט [Zedek u-Mishpat] (in Hebrew). Izmir. 1874. OCLC   233321818 . Retrieved Nov 22, 2015.
4. "PARDO, MOSES BEN RAPHAEL". Jewish Virtual Library . American–Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. 2013. Retrieved Nov 19, 2015.
5. Gaon, M. D. (1937). יהודי המזרח בארץ ישראל [Yehudei ha-Mizraḥ be-Ereẓ Yisrael] (in Hebrew). Vol. 2. Jerusalem. p. 541. Retrieved Nov 19, 2015.