Shulchan Aruch
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The Shulchan Aruch, often called "the Code of Jewish Law", is the most widely consulted of the various legal codes in Rabbinic Judaism. It was authored in the city of Safed by Joseph Karo in 1563 and
Brockhaus and Efron Jewish Encyclopedia e 9 327 0
Page of Shulchan Aruch, Even Ha'ezer section, laws of ketubot
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
Shulchan Aruch
…Law", is the most widely consulted of the various legal codes in Rabbinic Judaism. It was authored in the city of Safed (modern-day Tzfat, Israel) by Joseph Karo in 1563 and published in Venice two years later. Together with its commentaries, it is the most widely accepted compilation of halakha or Jewish law…
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Portrait by Meir Kunstadt [nl], early 1900s
Joseph Karo Synagogue in Safed
Karo's ohel in Safed