Priceless Library is the Closing of a Circle for Portugal Newsי״ח אדר ה׳תשפ״א - March 2, 2021 A priceless collection located in the newly-built Chabad library in Cascais, Portugal. chronicles the nation’s rich Jewish history through the lens of the region’s seforim, including a reshima the Rebbe wrote while there. By Menachem Posner – Chabad.org The year was 1497. Just five years after leaving his native Spain due to the Edict of Expulsion, Rabbi Avraham Saba stood tearfully beside an olive tree outside of Lisbon, Portugal. There, under what he described as a “tree of tears,” he buried his most precious possession, his manuscript commentary on Chumash, Pirkei Avot, Ruth and Esther.