Mordecai Baruch Carvalho (or ''Carvallo'') (Hebrew: מרדכי ברוך קרבאליו or קרבליו) ( 1705 – January 1785) was a wealthy merchant and rabbi from

Tunis ''Tounsi'' french: Tunisois , population_note = , population_urban = , population_metro = 2658816 , population_density_km2 = , timezone1 = CET , utc_offset1 ...

. He devoted part of his time to rabbinical studies, and in 1752 succeeded his teacher,

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, whose best pupil he was, as rabbi of the Leghorn congregation of Tunis. Throughout the country he enjoyed a high reputation as a rabbinical authority. His publications are: *''To'afot Re'em'' (The Strength of a Unicorn), commentary on the work of Elijah Mizrachi (Leghorn, 1761) *''Mira Dakya'' (Pure Myrrh), commentary and miscellanies on various tracts of the

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, and on

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' ''Yad ha-qazaqah'' (Leghorn, 1792). He also published the uncompleted work of his son, Isaac Carvalho, who died in January 1759 at the age of twenty-eight. This work, entitled ''Sefer ha-Zikronot we-Chayye Yitzchaq'' (Book of Records, and the Life of Isaac), and published together with the elder Carvalho's ''To'afot Re'em'', contains a commentary on the works of Mizrachi, miscellanies on various tracts of the

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, and four funeral orations. Carvalho died in 1785, at an advanced age.

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