Between Todros Abulafia and Isaac Sahula: One poet interprets the other

Abstract

In the landscape of the Jewish poets who wrote in Castile in the second half of the 13^thcentury, we find two very unique poets. The first is Isaac Shlomo Ibn Sahula, born in 1244, and the second, Todros ben Yehudah ha-Levi Abulafia, born in 1247. Both had similar ages and belong to the same generation. The first was an expert in Kabbalah focused on morals and the second was a poet who wrote mainly secular poetry. The aim of this article is to offer a parallel reading of their Works in order to realize that the work of Todros can serve as a key to interpret the morals of Ibn Sahula.