While browsing through Abarbanel’s commentary on the early prophets, I came across his introduction of the Book of Kings. Writing about kings, he starts writing about the King of Spain and the expulsion of the Jews in 1492, including himself, of which more below. I am not the first person to notice this, and I … Continue reading Perush Al Neviim Rishonim (Commentary on the early prophets) by Rabbi Don Yitzchak Abarbanel, third edition, Hamburg, 1687, with Abarbanel’s description of the expulsion from Spain in 1492.