Dr Pinchas Toledano (פנחס טולידאנו) is

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- Emeritus ( Chief Rabbi) of

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and of the

Spanish and Portuguese Jews Spanish and Portuguese Jews, also called Western Sephardim, Iberian Jews, or Peninsular Jews, are a distinctive sub-group of Sephardic Jews who are largely descended from Jews who lived as New Christians in the Iberian Peninsula during the ...

of the

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. He was also the official '' Av Beit Din'', head of the court, of the Netherlands ''

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''.

Biography

He studied under his father, Baruch Avraham Toledano, and also attended various yeshivot in England and Israel, receiving semikha - ordination - at age 20. He is also Hakham Emeritus Dr. P. Toledano
Profile at the "''Esnoga''" Portuguese Synagogue a certified '' shochet'' (ritual slaughterer), ''

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'' (scribe) and ''

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''. In 1969 he received a BA Hons in Semitics from the

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. In 1980 he received his PhD from London, his dissertation focusing on the relationship between

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and the ''Targumim''. In 1974 he was appointed Dayan (rabbinic judge) of the

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Community of London and in 1980 was Av Bet Din. In 1998, he was appointed Dayan of the Dutch Sephardi

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. He was appointed as Hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese community of the Netherlands in 2012. Since 2020 he is Hakham-Emeritus.

Works

Dayan Toledano is author of several scholarly works,Pinchas B. Toledano
at the

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including ''Berit Shalom'', which collects his Rabbinical Responsa in 3 volumes, and ''Mekor Beracha'', also 3 volumes, a code of Jewish Law with notes, commentary, and sources as based on contemporary ''

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''. His English output includes ''Fountain of blessings'' (), a translation of the latter, and ''The

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of India'' ().

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