Editing Rebbe Abraham Ibn Ezra (section)

== Life History ==
Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra was born in the city of Tudela (or Toledo) in Spain in 1089. In his youth, he left his birthplace and began wandering through the cities of Spain hoping to find financial sustenance. He later expanded his travels to North Africa, and eventually reached Egypt.

He was friends with Rabbi Yehuda Halevi, and mentions him several times in his Torah commentary. Some claim that he was his son-in-law.

It is generally accepted that he was friends with the Rambam.

He was unfortunate financially, and suffered losses in every business venture he undertook. In a certain poem he expressed about himself:

"The wheel and constellations in their positions / Turned in their paths against my birth; If candles were my merchandise / The sun would not set until my death I toil to succeed but cannot / For the stars of my sky have twisted me; If I were to trade in shrouds / No person would die in all my days"