Rebbe Peretz Colobo

Hebrew:
גלריה עץ הזית
Other Names:
Olive Tree Gallery
Description:
Spiritual leader of Safed right before it grew into become the Center of Kabbalah.

Rabbi Perez Colobo was the spiritual leader of Safed during the early 1490's. Tzfat at the time was a still a very small community and Rabbi Perez Colobo had to maintain a small grocery store to support himself. He was eventually succeeded by Rabbi Yosef Saragossi who turned Tzfat into the world center of Kabbalah.