Our teacher and rabbi Rabbi David Hanania Pinto shlita is a descendant of a family of supreme holy rabbis from generation to generation, a family of rabbis whose greatness has been handed down from generation to generation, for nearly four hundred years. Rabbi Yoshiya Pinto Zatzokal ZIA was a contemporary and father-in-law of the non-Maharajah Rabbi Chaim Vital ZIA, a definite disciple of the Holy Ari ZIA.