Pedigree, Erudition and Piety; Involvement and Mobility: The Life Story of Ribi Dawid ben Ya'aqov Pardo. A Case Study in the Making of Traditional Sephardic Hakam

Abstract

The forge of the Sephardic Rabbi Ribi Dawid Ben Ya’aqov Pardo takes as a starting point the main aspects that, traditionally, haven been shaping, from a wider approach, the scholar, moral and social background that nourished the rabbi as such. At the same time, from a much more specific point of view, well-rooted aspects as pedigree, erudition and treatises production have being clustering round this Sephardic rabbi together with a permanent involvement and disposition as regards the Jewish communities dwelling in the Balkan countries.