About

Machon Magen Avot

Mission Statement

Morocco is unique as it has an overwhelming volume of Torah Scholarship that for different reasons, much of it was never printed and is being lost. In the 10 plus years that Magen Avot has started, they have printed numerous manuscript, current writings and english books accessible to the public. Since its founding in 2015, Magen Avot has been spearheading and has pursued its focused mission of faithfully preserving and disseminating the Torah, minhagim, and books of the Sages of Morocco as well as other Sephardic countries.

What we do

We work with universities, private dealers, and other sources to obtain manuscripts fit for printing, and prepare them through transcribing, footnotes, editing, typesetting, printing, and disseminating. In 2015, Machon Magen Avot was founded as a publishing house dedicated to printing manuscripts of Sephardic Hachamim.

Rabbinical Staff

Rabbi Mordechai Lebhar

Founder & Head of the Machon

Born and raised in Montreal and currently residing in Los Angeles, Rabbi Lebhar serves as Rosh Kollel of the Los Angeles Intercommunity Kollel (LINK). From an early age he has dedicated himself to researching and disseminating the Torah and minhagim of the Hachamim of Morocco. Under the guidance of Ribi Shalom Messas and Ribi David Ovadia, he published Magen Avot on Orach Hayim (2005), Yoré De'a (2010) and Even Haezer (2015) — authoritative halachic works on Moroccan laws and customs.