THE BERDUGO FAMILY

CERTIFICATE ATTESTING TO THE
BERDUGO DAVIDIC ORIGINS
(from Loeb/Berdugo web site )

This document , written in 1840,  is based on on an earlier document by the Castillian Rabbis
dating from the generation which was expulsed from Spain in 1492.
Rabbi Moshe Alachkar was Great Rabbi of Egypt and Rabbi Moshe Pardo became emissary of the Holy Land.

Translated by Jacob Berdugo, 1982, Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Precious testimony which we have in our hands (?) given to us by the Great Rabbi (?) Moshe PARDO of blessed memory who was member of the Beit Din (Religious Court) for the city of Amman.

This document was written by (?) Rabbi of the Kollel, Mordehai BERDUGO of blessed memory, one of the sons of the Rabbi of blessed memory author of the book Ketoret Yossef while he was travelling to (?) Amman on the way to make aliyah and settle in the land of Israel (?) Tiberias.

I the undersigned declare, living in (?) Meknes (?) in the sixth year (?) that my eyes have seen an old parchment describing the descent of the Famous BERDUGO Family (?)

The document list each name after his ancestors, so-and-such Rabbi son of so-and-such Rabbi, etc. The genealogy continued in this fashion up until the famous and respected Rabbi Bustenai Gaon one of the descendants of King David through the family of Zeroubbabel ben Saltiel of blessed memory. And by redescending the genealogy generation by generation until the great luminary Rabbi Jacob BERDUGO of blessed memroy, Rabbi teaching (?) in the city of Meknes (?).

This document was first signed by the Rabbis of Castille (?) like angels (?) signatures confirmed by judges of tribunals, generation after generation, confirming the earlier signatures and completing the information of earlier generations by names born in their generation.

Among the last Rabbis of Castille, the ninth signature was the Rabbi Moshe ALSHAKER (?) who was Rabbi in Egypt in the time of (?), of blessed memory.

I remember this when I was (?) of the holy city of Tiberius.

Signed, G-d's servant Moshe PARDO (?)