 His intellectual brilliance and his intense focus on his studies, however, did not limit or prevent him – as occurs with most intensely devoted religious individuals –from experiencing many of the Jewish rites of passage.In fact, at the age of nineteen or twenty, he married the daughter of an affluent Jew named Samuel Lissabona.The nuptials were believed to have taken place before the end of the year 1663, when he joined his wife's family in Gaza.