Works
Pinto was the author of the following works:
- Kesef Nibḥar (Damascus, 1616), a collection of homilies and comments on Genesis and Exodus
- Kesef Mezuḳḳaḳ (finished 1625, and published at Venice, 1628), a homiletic commentary on the Pentateuch, followed by a pamphlet entitled Kesef To'afot, glosses on the Pentateuch
- Me'or 'Enayim, commentary on Jacob ibn Ḥabib's En Ya'aḳob, which is a collection of the haggadot of the Babylonian Talmud (part i, with the text, Venice, 1643; part ii, with other commentaries and the text, Amsterdam, 1754)
- Kesef Ẓaruf (ib. 1714), commentary on Proverbs
- Nibḥar mi-Kesef (Aleppo, 1869).
Some of his responsa are to be found in the collection of Yom-Ṭob Ẓahalon and in Aaron Alfandari's Yad Aharon. His unpublished works are: Kesef Nim'as, a commentary on Lamentations, Ḳebuẓẓat Kesef, a collection of civil laws and of laws concerning women, and a collection of responsa.
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