Elazar ben Moshe Azikri
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Rabbi Elazar ben Moshe Azikri was a Jewish kabbalist, poet and writer.
Rabbi Elazar Azikri's grave in Safed
Joseph Karo
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Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, also spelled Yosef Caro, or Qaro, was a prominent Sephardic Jewish rabbi renowned as the author of the last great codification of Jewish law, the Beit Yosef, and its popular a
Elazar ben Moshe Azikri
…Berab, and in the yeshiva of Moses ben Jacob Cordovero. He is counted with the greatest Rabbis and intellectuals of his time: Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz, Yosef Karo, Moshe Cordovero, Isaac Luria, and Israel ben Moses Najara, among others. He was one of a handful of rabbis to receive the renewed rabbinic semikhah…
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Portrait by Meir Kunstadt [nl], early 1900s
Joseph Karo Synagogue in Safed
Karo's ohel in Safed
Title page of Karo's Shulchan Aruch