Rabbi Peretz Colombo
From Zissil
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.