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 or Portugal in 1488; he died at Safed (Tzefat), Israel, March 24, 1575. He is also known as HaMechaber, Hebrew for "the author [of the Shulkhan Arukh]", his most famous work; and as Maran Beth Yosef, "our master, [the author of] Beth Yosef". Yosef Karo - Biography. If his birthplace was Spain, his family probably left for Portugal a ...

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If his birthplace was Spain, his family probably left for Portugal after the Spanish expulsion in 1492. After the expulsion of the Jews from Portugal, in 1497, Karo went with his parents to Nicopolis in European Turkey, where he received his first instruction from his father, who was himself an eminent Talmudist. He married, first, Isaac Saba's daughter, and, after her death, the daughter of Hayyim Albalag, both of these men being well-known Talmudists. After the death of his second wife he married the daughter of Zechariah Sechsel (or perhaps Sa ...

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Yosef Karo, Yosef Karo - Biography, Yosef Karo - Authority recognized, Yosef Karo - Works, Yosef Karo - Maggid Mesharim, Yosef Karo - Karo's Characteristics

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