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Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, also spelled Yosef Caro, or Qaro (Hebrew: יוסף קארו; 1488 – March 24, 1575, 13 Nisan 5335 A.M.), was the author of the last great codification of Jewish law, the Beit Yosef, and its popular analogue, the Shulhan Arukh.
Jul 6, 2018 · Rabbi Joseph Karo (1488–1575) lived in between the Spanish Catholic, Ottoman, and Jewish cultures. Footnote 36 His family lived in Spain for several generations, and were forced to leave during the general 1492 expulsion.
- Roni Weinstein
- 2020
Outstanding lawyer and mystic (1488–1575). Karo was probably born in Toledo but, after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, his family settled in Turkey where Karo lived for around forty years, acquiring a great reputation as an authority on Jewish law. In 1536 he left Turkey for Safed, serving there until his death as a Rabbi and ...
Joseph ben Ephraim Karo (born 1488, Spain—died March 24, 1575, Safed, Palestine [now Ẕefat, Israel]) was a Spanish-born Jewish author of the last great codification of Jewish law, the Bet Yosef (“House of Joseph”).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 14, 2018 · The Jewish codifier Joseph ben Ephraim Caro (1488-1575) is the most universally recognized authority on Jewish law and practice. Joseph Caro was born in Spain or Portugal. His family was expelled from Spain in 1492 and then continued eastward with sojourns in Greece and Turkey before settling in Safed (now in Israel) about 1535.
Aug 29, 2012 · Rabbi Joseph Karo (b. 1488–d. 1575—more correctly Caro, as his last name is a form of the Spanish name Castro) was the author of the Shulhan Arukh, a code of Jewish law that was accepted to one degree or another by nearly every community of Jews in the world, and that remains even to this day a definitive statement of Jewish religious law ...
1788 ( MDCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1788th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 788th year of the 2nd millennium, the 88th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1780s decade.
