🇵🇹Happy Portugal Day! 🇵🇹This was our setup for Portugal Day Shabbat!🇵🇹✡️Featured are the writings of: •The Great Sephardic Sage Avraham Zacuto- chief astronomer to King João II. •Luis Vaz de Camões - The great Portuguese poet who wrote the Portuguese National Epic "The Lusiads." Portugal Day falls on the date of Camões' death and honours his memory. In his book, the Lusiads, there is a reference to Avraham Zacuto.•Gil Vicente - major Portuguese poet and writer. Protected the conversos against persecution in the 1500s.•Francisco Sanches - Converso who was baptized in Braga. Left Iberia to live peacefully in France away from the Inquisition. Challenged the authority of Aristotle in his writings, leading to the Scientific Revolution. 🇵🇹Happy Portugal day🇵🇹