Rabbi Avraham Sabba was born in
Castile in 1440 and spent the first 50 years of his life in parts
of Spain where Jews lived in prosperity and security. He wrote many
books, among them the Torah commentary Tzror hamor. His genius is
evident from the manner in which he selects hundreds of quotations
from the Zohar, the most famous mystical text, in which he
demonstrates that the author of the Zohar is capable of being
understood by the average Jew, (as opposed to scholars) and that
the Zohar is helpful in understanding many difficult passages in
the Torah.
He was forced into exile to Portugal in 1492, and to North
Africa in 1497 after not only being persecuted and seeing many
members of his family die for kiddush hashem, but he had to rewrite
this commentary completely from memory, as in Fez, Morocco he had
no library at his disposal. He died on board a ship on the way to
Italy and was buried in Verona in 1510
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