Turkish rabbinical author; lived at Sarajevo, Bosnia, at the end of the eighteenth century; pupil of David Pardo . Penso was the author of "Appe Zuṭre" (Salonica, 1798), a work on the paschal laws, and of "Tola'at Shani" ( ib. 1805), a collection of homilies. He edited Ḥayyim. J. D. Azulai's notes on the Shulḥan 'Aruk, Mishpaṭ Katub ( ib. 1798).
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