Today (Shevat 7*) is the nahala of Reverend Joseph M. Corcos (1872-1926). He came from a distinguished rabbinical line. Abraham Corcos, his grandfather, had served as a Dayan of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of England. His mother Julia was the daughter of Abraham M. Rodrigues Brandon of London. He received his rabbinical education in Mogador, Morocco, under Judah BenAttar, was graduate of the Royal College of Salamanca, Spain, and received semikha from Moses Gaster in London. From 1893-1903 he served as minister in the Spanish & Portuguese congregations of Jamaica and of Curacao. During this time, he authored a catechism for the Hebrew School of Jamaica and became the first person to publish a History of the Jews of Curacao. He later moved to New York, where he pursued a business career. When David de Sola Pool left for the Holy Land in 1919, Joseph Corcos was appointed "Acting Minister" of Shearith Israel, serving until Dr. Pool's return in 1922. In 1922, he was appointed hazzan in Montreal, where he remained until 1925. Sadly, he passed away in January 1926 at the age of fifty-three. The version of "Bendigamos" that is most prevalent today was composed and transmitted from Curacao to NY by hazzan Corcos.(* corrected the date of his nahala.)