RABBI SHLOMO PEREIRA received his rabbinical ordination in Jerusalem in 2004 and has served in the last two decades as assistant rabbi and education director at Chabad of Virginia. He has taught extensively on topics ranging from Jewish history and law to Jewish philosophy and mysticism.
R. Pereira is the author of two widely circulated texts, “Hadrat Melech” and “Chachmei Halacha” on the history of the Jewish legal tradition. In addition, for the last five years, he has circulated a weekly historical note on the continuing Jewish presence in the Land of Israel, “Jewish Moments in the Land of Israel.”
R. Pereira has a longstanding research collaboration with R. Eli Rosenfeld, head of Chabad Portugal, to bring to the limelight the contributions of the Iberian rabbis of old. This collaboration has resulted in the publication of several bilingual books: in 2018, “Jewish Voices from Portugal,” a book of sermons on the Torah portion based on the writings of rabbis who called Portugal home in the late 1400s; in 2020, “Jewish Ethics from Portugal”, focusing on the commentaries of the same rabbis on Pirkei Avot; in 2023, “Letter from Lisbon,” a book on the brief passage of the Lubavitcher Rebbe through Lisbon in 1941, as he fled the nazi onslaught in Europe; and, in 2025, “Monuments of Paper and Parchment,” a volume on the history of Hebrew printing in Portugal.
