Salomon Berdugo (1854–1906) was a

halakhic ''Halakha'' (; he, הֲלָכָה, ), also transliterated as ''halacha'', ''halakhah'', and ''halocho'' ( ), is the collective body of Jewish religious laws which is derived from the written and Oral Torah. Halakha is based on biblical commandm ...

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Chief Rabbi Chief Rabbi ( he, רב ראשי ''Rav Rashi'') is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's Jewish community, or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular authorities. Since 1911, through a ...

Meknes Meknes ( ar, مكناس, maknās, ; ber, ⴰⵎⴽⵏⴰⵙ, amknas; french: Meknès) is one of the four Imperial cities of Morocco, located in northern central Morocco and the sixth largest city by population in the kingdom. Founded in the 11th c ...

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...

.On R. Raphael Berdugo (1747–1822) and family, see: Issachar Ben-Ami, ''Saint veneration among the Jews in Morocco'', Wayne State University Press, 1998, p. 268 He was the son of Rabbi Daniel Berdugo. In 1897 he was appointed rabbi of the community. He was the author of ''Die Hashev, Em le-Mesorot'',

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, a collection of laws and Torah novellae; appended are ''Musar Kaskel'' and ''Shirei Shelomo'' (1950) as well as many books of Jewish poetry and '' zmirot''. He married Jimil Choen. They had seven children.

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19th-century Moroccan rabbis People from Meknes 1854 births 1906 deaths Moroccan writers 20th-century Moroccan rabbis {{Morocco-rabbi-stub

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