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
Portrait by Meir Kunstadt [nl], early 1900s
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Joseph Karo Synagogue in Safed
Karo's ohel in Safed
Title page of Karo's Shulchan Aruch
Safed
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Safed, also known as Tzfat and officially as Zefat, is a city in the Northern District of Israel. Located at an elevation of up to 937 m, Safed is the highest city in the Galilee and in Israel. In 202
Joseph Karo
…of Hayyim Albalag, both of these men being well-known Talmudists. Between 1520 and 1522 Karo settled at Adrianople. He later settled in the city of Safed, Israel, where he arrived about 1535, having en route spent several years at Salonica (1533) and Istanbul. By 1555, Joseph Karo was already a resident…
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