Pele Yoetzפלא יועץ
Silistra · 1815
E
Eliezer Papo
Eliezer Papo
Also known as The Pele Yoetz
1785 CE–1828 CE · Acharonim · Sarajevo
Rabbi Eliezer Papo (1785–1828) was a Sephardic rabbi and ethical teacher, born in Sarajevo and serving as rabbi of the community of Silistra (in present-day Bulgaria), where he died young at forty-three. He is beloved across the Jewish world for the Pele Yoetz, a warm, practical guide to ethical living arranged alphabetically by topic, counseling the reader on how to act as a Jew in every situation of daily life. His grave in Silistra remains a place of pilgrimage to this day.
Life journeyclick any stop, or use ←/→Trace on the orchard map →
✦
Stop 1 of 21785Born
SarajevoסרייבוBosnia
We know they were here, but the specifics of what they did at this stop aren’t recorded yet in our corpus.
About Sarajevo
Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, became home to a Sephardic Jewish community after the expulsion from Spain in 1492, established under Ottoman rule from the sixteenth century. For centuries it was one of the principal Sephardic communities of the Balkans, with a Ladino-speaking culture; the famed medieval Sarajevo Haggadah, carried from Spain, is preserved there.
The world in their lifetime
✦
Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Eliezer Papo’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.