Yosef Karo - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Yosef Karo: Encyclopedia - Yosef Karo
Rabbi Yosef (Joseph) Ben Ephraim Karo is one of the most important leaders in the history of halakha (Jewish law). He was born in Spain o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yosef Karo: Encyclopedia Ii - Yosef Karo - Biography
If his birthplace was Spain, his family probably left for Portugal after the Spanish expulsion in 1492. After the expulsion of the Jews f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kabbalah: Encyclopedia - Kabbalah
Kabbalah (Hebrew קַבָּלָה "reception", Standard Hebrew Qabbala, Tiberian Hebrew Qabbālāh; also written variously as Cabala, Cab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Asher Ben Jehiel: Encyclopedia - Asher Ben Jehiel
Asher ben Jehiel (or Asher ben Yechiel) (1250 or 1259-1328) was an eminent rabbi and Talmudist best known for his abstract of Talmudic la...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yoreh De'ah: Encyclopedia - Yoreh De'ah
Yoreh De'ah is a section of Rabbi Jacob ben Asher's compilation of halakha (Jewish law), Arba'ah Turim. This section treats all aspects o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acharonim: Encyclopedia - Acharonim
Acharonim (אחרונים Hebrew - sing. Acharon) literally "the later ones", is a term used in Jewish law and history, to signify the le...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1488: Encyclopedia - 1488
The numbers 14 88 are sometimes used as a code to express a racist message. 1488 - Births. January 6 - Helius Eobanus Hessus, German L...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yisrael Meir Kagan: Encyclopedia - Yisrael Meir Kagan
Yisrael Meir (HaCohen) Kagan, also known to students of Judaism as the Chofetz Chaim, was a rabbi, Halakhist and ethicist, born in Zhetel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orthodox Judaism: Encyclopedia - Orthodox Judaism
Orthodox Judaism is the stream of Judaism which adheres to a relatively strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics firs...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Halakha: Encyclopedia - Halakha
Halakha (Hebrew: הלכה; also transliterated as Halakhah, Halacha, Halachah) is the collective corpus of Jewish rabbinic law, custom an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz: Encyclopedia - Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz
Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz (also "Yishayahu", "Yeshayah", "Yeshayah", "Yishaya" - in English Abraham Isaiah Karelitz) (1878-1953) known b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1575: Encyclopedia - 1575
1575 - Events. February 13 - Henry III of France is crowned at Reims February 14 - Henry III of France marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaud...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Views Of Astrology: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Views Of Astrology - Views In The Modern Era
Strictures against astrology appear in the official Torah commentary of Conservative Judaism and on the official website of Reform Judais...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Moses Isserles: Encyclopedia Ii - Moses Isserles - Biography
Rabbi Isserles was born in Kraków. His father was a prominent Talmudist, said to have been independently wealthy, and probably headed th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orthodox Judaism: Encyclopedia Ii - Orthodox Judaism - Subgroups
Orthodox Judaism's central belief is that the Torah, including both the Written Law and the Oral Law, was given directly from God to Mose...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Rabbis: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Rabbis - Rabbis: Later Middle Ages
List of rabbis - Rabbis: 18th Century. Haim Isaac Carigal, rabbi in Newport, Rhode Island in 1773 who became great influence on Revere...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Halakha: Encyclopedia Ii - Halakha - The Sources And Process Of Halakha
The boundaries of Jewish law are determined through the halakhic process, a religious-ethical system of legal reasoning. Rabbis generally...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Minyan: Encyclopedia Ii - Minyan - Laws
According to halakha (Jewish law), a minyan is required for many parts (D'varim She Ba Kodesh "Holy utterances") of the communal prayer s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Asher Ben Jehiel: Encyclopedia Ii - Asher Ben Jehiel - Biography
The Rosh was born in western Germany and died in Toledo, Spain. His family was prominent for learning and piety, his father Jehiel was a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mishneh Torah: Encyclopedia Ii - Mishneh Torah - Opposition
Mishneh Torah - Critics and criticism. The Mishneh Torah was strongly opposed almost as soon as it appeared. Major sources of contentio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Haftarah: Encyclopedia Ii - Haftarah - List Of Haftarot
The selection from Nevi'im read as the haftarah is not always the same in all Jewish communities. When customs differ, this list indicate...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Leadership: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Leadership - Historic Leadership
Jewish leadership - Biblical leadership Before 70 CE. See related List of Jewish Biblical figures. During the era of the Tanakh, lead...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shulkhan Arukh: Encyclopedia Ii - Shulkhan Arukh - Beth Yosef
Shulkhan Arukh - Its premise and style. The Shulkhan Arukh is an abridgement of a much larger work by Rabbi Karo, titled Beth Yosef (He...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kabbalah: Encyclopedia Ii - Kabbalah - Origin Of Jewish Mysticism
According to adherents of Kabbalah, the origin of Kabbalah begins with the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible). When read by a Kabbalist, the Torah...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jacob Berab: Encyclopedia Ii - Jacob Berab - Plan For Ordination
Berab's undertaking, to be judged correctly, must be considered in connection with the whole current of thought of the younger generation...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jacob Berab: Encyclopedia Ii - Jacob Berab - Dispute With Ibn Ḥabib.
To obtain the good-will of the Jews of the Holy City, the first use that Berab made of his new dignity was to ordain the chief rabbi at J...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Views Of Astrology: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Views Of Astrology - Rabbinic Rejection Of Astrology
In early classical rabbinic works written in the land of Israel (Jerusalem Talmud and Palestinian midrash compilations) astrologers are k...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Rabbis: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Rabbis - Conservative Rabbis
List of rabbis - Conservative rabbis: 19th Century. Zecharias Frankel, 19th century critical historian, founder of the Positive histor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Views Of Astrology: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Views Of Astrology - Rabbinic Acceptance Of Astrology
However, other statements in the Talmud and in the midrash literature show that many Jews had some level of admiration for astrology. Som...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Views Of Astrology: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Views Of Astrology - Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
In Derekh Hashem Section II, chapter 7, Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto discusses the influence of stars on humanity and events on earth. Ther...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Views Of Astrology: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Views Of Astrology - In The Medieval Era
Many rabbis in the Geonic era (after the close of the Talmud, early medieval period) discussed the varying Talmudic and midrashic views o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Rabbis: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Rabbis - Reform Rabbis
List of rabbis - Reform rabbis: 19th Century. Samuel Adler, 19th century German-American rabbi of Temple Emanu-El Emil Hirsch, 19th ce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Rabbis: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Rabbis - Orthodox Rabbis
List of rabbis - Orthodox rabbis: 19th Century. Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, (Netziv ; Ha'emek Davar) 19th century head of Volozhin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mishneh Torah: Encyclopedia Ii - Mishneh Torah - Omissions
Maimonides did not surrender his independent judgment even when his views were in conflict with other authorities. It was impossible, in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jacob Berab: Encyclopedia Ii - Jacob Berab - Chosen Rabbi At Eighteen
Berab was a pupil of Isaac Aboab. When he fled from Spain to Tlemçen,then the chief town of the Barbary states, the Jewish community the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jacob Berab: Encyclopedia Ii - Jacob Berab - Plan For Ordination
Berab had a plan for the reintroduction of the old "Semichah" (rabbinic ordination). It likely that his further plans included the reesta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shulkhan Arukh: Encyclopedia Ii - Shulkhan Arukh - Commentaries
A large body of commentaries has appeared on the Shulkhan Arukh. The first, Sefer Me'irath Enayim (on Choshen Mishpat, abbreviated as Sem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shulkhan Arukh: Encyclopedia Ii - Shulkhan Arukh - Page Layout
Since the 17th century, the Shulkhan Arukh has been printed with Isserles' annotations in small print interspersed with Karo's text. As t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shulkhan Arukh: Encyclopedia Ii - Shulkhan Arukh - Shulkhan Arukh
Karo wrote the Shulkhan Arukh in his old age, for the benefit of those who did not possess the education necessary to understand the Beth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jacob Berab: Encyclopedia Ii - Jacob Berab - Ordination Of 1538
In 1538 twenty-five rabbis met in assembly at Safed and ordained Berab, giving him the right to ordain any number of others, who would th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Views Of Astrology: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Views Of Astrology - In The Bible
Astrology is not specifically mentioned in the Torah, the five books of Moses. There are two commandments which have been used by some au...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mishneh Torah: Encyclopedia Ii - Mishneh Torah - Maimonides' Sources
Maimonides sought brevity and clarity in his Mishneh Torah and as in his Commentary on the Mishnah, he refrained from detailing his sourc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Minyan: Encyclopedia Ii - Minyan - Origin
A common misconception is that the requirement of ten to constitute a quorum comes from the fact that Abraham stopped decreasing his requ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shulkhan Arukh: Encyclopedia Ii - Shulkhan Arukh - Isserles And Other Criticism
Immediately upon the appearance of Karo's Beth Yosef, Rabbi Moses Isserles (the Rema) wrote his Darkei Mosheh, a moderately expressed but...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mishneh Torah: Encyclopedia Ii - Mishneh Torah - Influence
Mishneh Torah - Decisors. Thus the work of Maimonides, notwithstanding the sharp attacks upon it, soon won general recognition as an au...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orthodox Judaism: Encyclopedia Ii - Orthodox Judaism - Beliefs
Orthodox Judaism is composed of different groups with intertwining beliefs, practices and theologies, and in their broad patterns, the Or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Rabbis: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Rabbis - Reconstructionist Rabbis
List of rabbis - Reconstructionist rabbis: 20th Century. Mordecai Kaplan, 20th century founder of the Reconstructionist movement in Am...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Haftarah: Encyclopedia Ii - Haftarah - Haftarot On Sabbath Afternoon
Some Rishonim, including Rabbenu Yaakov Tam, report that a custom in the era of the Talmud was to read a haftarah at the mincha service e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kabbalah: Encyclopedia Ii - Kabbalah - Mystic Doctrines In Talmudic Times
In Talmudic times the terms Ma'aseh Bereshit ("Works of Creation") and Ma'aseh Merkabah ("Works of the Divine Throne/Chariot") clearly in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kabbalah: Encyclopedia Ii - Kabbalah - The Failure Of Sabbatian Mysticism
The spiritual and mystical yearnings of many Jews remained frustrated after the death of Rabbi Isaac Luria and his disciples and colleagu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kabbalah: Encyclopedia Ii - Kabbalah - Kabbalistic Understanding Of God
Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism) teaches that God is neither matter nor spirit. Rather God is the creator of both, but is himself neither. But...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kabbalah: Encyclopedia Ii - Kabbalah - Practical Applications
The Midrash and Talmud are replete with the use of Divine names and incantations that are claimed to effect supernatural or metaphysical ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kabbalah: Encyclopedia Ii - Kabbalah - Foretelling The Future
A small number of Kabbalists have attempted to foretell events by the Kabbalah. The term has come to be used to refer to secret science i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kabbalah: Encyclopedia Ii - Kabbalah - The Human Soul In Kabbalah
The Zohar posits that the human soul has three elements, the nefesh, ru'ach, and neshamah. The nefesh is found in all humans, and enters ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kabbalah: Encyclopedia Ii - Kabbalah - Textual Antiquity Of Esoteric Mysticism
Early forms of esoteric mysticism existed over 2,000 years ago. Ben Sira warns against it, saying: "You shall have no business with secre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kabbalah: Encyclopedia Ii - Kabbalah - Gnosticism And Kabbalah
Gnostic literature testifies to the antiquity of the Kabbalah. Gnosticism - systems of secret spiritual knowledge, or some sources say - ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Haftarah: Encyclopedia Ii - Haftarah - History
No one knows for certain the origins of reading the haftarah, but several theories have been put forth. The most common explanation, acce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Halakha: Encyclopedia Ii - Halakha - How Halakha Is Viewed Today
Orthodox Judaism holds that the words of the Torah (Pentateuch) were indeed dictated by God to Moses in almost precisely the way that the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Halakha: Encyclopedia Ii - Halakha - The Laws Of The Torah
Broadly, the Halakha comprises the practical application of the commandments (each one known as a mitzvah) in the Torah, as developed in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Haftarah: Encyclopedia Ii - Haftarah - The Haftarah Blessings
A blessing both precedes and follows the haftarah reading. The blessings are read using haftarah cantillation by the person to read the h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Haftarah: Encyclopedia Ii - Haftarah - Haftarah Cantillation
The haftarah is read with cantillation according to a unique melody (not with the same cantillation melody as the Torah). The tradition t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Leadership: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Leadership - Modern Religious Leadership After 1800s
Jewish leadership - Decline of rabbinical influence. With the growth of the Renaissance and the development of the secular modern world...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jacob Berab: Encyclopedia Ii - Jacob Berab - Dispute With Ibn Ḥabib.
To obtain the good-will of the Jews of the Holy City, the first use that Berab made of his new dignity was to ordain the chief rabbi at J...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jacob Berab: Encyclopedia Ii - Jacob Berab - Chosen Rabbi At Eighteen
Berab was a pupil of Isaac Aboab. When he fled from Spain to Tlemçen,then the chief town of the Barbary states, the Jewish community the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Halakha: Encyclopedia Ii - Halakha - The Scope Of Halakha
The Halakha is a comprehensive guide to numerous aspects of human life, corporeal and spiritual. Its laws, guidelines, and opinions cover...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Halakha: Encyclopedia Ii - Halakha - Terminology
The name Halakha derives from the Hebrew halach הלך meaning "going" or the "[correct] way"; thus a literal translation does not yield ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kabbalah: Encyclopedia Ii - Kabbalah - Kabbalah In Non-jewish Society
Kabbalah eventually gained an audience outside of the Jewish community. Nominal-Christian versions of Kabbalah began to develop; by the e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kabbalah: Encyclopedia Ii - Kabbalah - Debate About Kabbalah In Judaism
Although it was criticized by a small number of rabbis, Kabbalah has nevertheless been a fundamental part of most Jewish theology for man...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kabbalah: Encyclopedia Ii - Kabbalah - Criticisms
Kabbalah - Dualism. One of the most serious and sustained criticisms of Kabbalah is that it may lead away from monotheism, and instead ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orthodox Judaism: Encyclopedia Ii - Orthodox Judaism - Origin And Definition Of The Name Orthodox
While many Orthodox Jews accept the label "Orthodox", others reject and criticize it because it was never traditionally applied to Jews i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orthodox Judaism: Encyclopedia Ii - Orthodox Judaism - The Development Of Orthodoxy
Orthodoxy is not a single movement or school of thought. There is no single rabbinic body to which all its rabbis are expected to belong,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orthodox Judaism: Encyclopedia Ii - Orthodox Judaism - Orthodox Organizations And Groups
The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, more commonly known as the Orthodox Union, or more simply as the "OU", and the Rab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Leadership: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Leadership - Secular Leadership
Following the Renaissance and the Enlightenment in Europe (with its Jewish "extension" the Haskalah movement, which led to much modern-da...   » Read the article