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
Maggid Mesharim
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The Maggid Mesharim, published in 1646, is a mystical diary, in which Joseph Karo during a period of fifty years recorded the nocturnal visits of the Maggid - an angelic being, his heavenly mentor, th
Joseph Karo
…Joseph Vital explains that visitation by a maggid is a form of divine inspiration. The teachings of the maggid are recorded in his published work titled Maggid Mesharim "Teacher of Righteousness". Chaim Yosef David Azulai notes that only about one-fiftieth of the manuscript was published. However, in numerous places…
Title page of the first edition