Jacob ben David Pardo was an 18th-century rabbi, author and poet.
He was the author of: "Marpe Lashon" (Venice, 1780), prayers and religious poems for children, printed conjointly with his "Tehillah be-Eretz," poems on the earthquake in Ragusa; "Kehillat Ya'akob" (ib.
1797),[3] novellæ to the treatise "Hilkot Ishshut," i.e., precepts for women; "Tokfo shel Nes"[4] (ib.
1798), introduction to the "Ma'aseh Nissim"[5] of Aaron Cohen Ragusano; "Minchat Aharon" (ib.
1809),[6] precepts for the religious ritual upon awakening, for the three daily prayers, and moral precepts; "Mishkenot Ya'akob" (Leghorn, 1824), commentary on Isaiah, published by his son David Samuel.