ר' אברהם סבע

Abraham Saba (1440–1508) was a rabbi 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 Porto 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. Saba's two sons were forcibly taken from him, and he fled from Porto, abandoning his entire library and succeeding only at the risk of his life in saving his own works in manuscript.