Abraham Saba (1440–1508) was a preacher in Castile who became a pupil of Isaac de Leon. At the time of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain he took refuge in Portugal, where he met with further misfortune; for scarcely had he settled in Oporto when King Manuel I of Portugal ordered all Jews to be expelled from Portugal, all Jewish children to become Christians, and all Hebrew books to be burned (December 24, 1496). Saba's two sons were forcibly taken from him, and he fled from Oporto, abandoning his entire library and succeeding only at the risk of his life in saving his own works in manuscript.
He fled to Lisbon, but before reaching there was told of a new order of the king decreeing the death of any Jew with whom a Hebrew book or tefillin (phylacteries) were found. He hid his manuscripts and tefillin under an olive-tree and entered the city. Upon leaving Lisbon he attempted to recover his hidden treasure, but being discovered by the king's guards, he was thrown into prison, and after a six months' confinement was sent across the frontier. He went to Fez, Morocco, where he resided for ten years. Soon after his arrival he fell ill; his great privations and terrible sufferings having undermined his health.
AbrahamSaba (1440–1508) was a preacher in Castile who became a pupil of Isaac de Leon. At the time of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain he took refuge...
Deutschland: De Gruyter. p. 146 Gross, Abraham (1995). Iberian Jewry from Twilight to Dawn: The World of Rabbi AbrahamSaba. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Publishers...
Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra (Hebrew: ר׳ אַבְרָהָם בֶּן מֵאִיר אִבְּן עֶזְרָא ʾAḇrāhām ben Mēʾīr ʾībən ʾĒzrāʾ, often abbreviated as ראב"ע; Arabic: إبراهيم...
Verlag. ISBN 9783796546075. Gross, Abraham (1995). Iberian Jewry from Twilight to Dawn: The World of Rabbi AbrahamSaba. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Publishers...
references date back to the Roman period. The Provençal rabbi and scholar Rabbi Abraham ben David wrote in anno 1161: "A tradition exists with the [Jewish] community...
author of Seliha 42 – Zechor Berit Avraham ("Remember the Covenant of Abraham"), a liturgical poem recited by Ashkenazic Jews during the season of Rosh...
ben Avraham ibn Aderet (Hebrew: שלמה בן אברהם אבן אדרת or Solomon son of Abraham son of Aderet) (1235 – 1310) was a medieval rabbi, halakhist, and Talmudist...
appointed Nagid in 1195. A work known as "Megillat Zutta" was written by Abraham ben Hillel, who writes a scathing description of Sar Shalom while praising...
totally unfounded hypothesis". Isaac was the son of the famous talmudist, Abraham ben David of Posquières (Raavad). The Bahir first appeared in the Middle...
in Toledo and may have practiced medicine for the court there. He and Abraham ibn Ezra were well acquainted and the latter quoted Halevi on multiple...
Abraham ben David (c. 1125 – 27 November 1198), also known by the abbreviation RABaD (for Rabbeinu Abraham ben David) Ravad or RABaD III, was a Provençal...
and later served as the beth din's head after the death of Zerach ben Abraham. Rashi is generally considered a leading biblical exegete in the Middle...
Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro (Hebrew: ר׳ עוֹבַדְיָה בֵּן אַבְרָהָם מִבַּרְטֵנוּרָא; c. 1445 – c. 1515), commonly known as "The Bartenura", was a 15th-century...
Hasdai ben Abraham Crescas (Catalan: [həzˈðaj ˈβeɲ ʒuˈða ˈkɾeskəs]; Hebrew: חסדאי קרשקש; c. 1340 in Barcelona – 1410/11 in Zaragoza) was a Spanish-Jewish...
to be questioned. Called upon, about 1238, for support by Solomon ben Abraham of Montpellier, who had been excommunicated by supporters of Maimonides...
1215-1280) Zedekiah ben Abraham Anaw (Shibbolei HaLeqet), 13th century Italian halakhist (c. 1220-1280) Benjamin ben Abraham Anaw, 13th century poet,...
Joseph Isaac Aboab I Abraham ibn Daud Moses ibn Ezra Jonah ibn Janah AbrahamSaba Catalonia Nachmanides Menachem Meiri Nissim of Gerona (Ran) Shlomo ibn...
Yom Tov ben Abraham of Seville (c. 1260 – 1320; also Asevilli, Assevilli, Ashbili) commonly known by the Hebrew acronym Ritva, (Hebrew: ריטב"א) was a...
astronomer/astrologer. He was born at Bagnols in Languedoc, France. According to Abraham Zacuto and others, he was the son of Gerson ben Solomon Catalan. As in...
into philosophy and the sciences, and was very much influenced by both Abraham ibn Ezra and Maimonides. In later life, he took part in the controversy...
Joseph Isaac Aboab I Abraham ibn Daud Moses ibn Ezra Jonah ibn Janah AbrahamSaba Catalonia Nachmanides Menachem Meiri Nissim of Gerona (Ran) Shlomo ibn...
house of Castile. Together with his friend, the influential converso Don Abraham Senior, of Segovia, he undertook to farm the revenues and to supply provisions...
Joseph Isaac Aboab I Abraham ibn Daud Moses ibn Ezra Jonah ibn Janah AbrahamSaba Catalonia Nachmanides Menachem Meiri Nissim of Gerona (Ran) Shlomo ibn...
many other commentators, among them Saadia Gaon, Rashi, Joseph Kara and Abraham ibn Ezra. Works of Jacob ben Ascher in the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke...
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