Isaac Karo (1458-1535) was a famous posek, preacher, Rosh Yeshiva, and physician. He was born in Toledo, Spain and probably died in Jerusalem. He was the...

Georg Karo (1872–1963), German archaeologist Henry Arnold Karo (1903–1986), vice admiral in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Isaac Karo (1458-1535)...

settled in the Kingdom of Portugal. Following his father's death, Karo's uncle Isaac, an author of biblical commentary, adopted him. After the expulsion...

including those of Rashi, Nachmanides, Hezekiah ben Manoah, Abraham Saba, Isaac Karo, and Bahya ben Asher. Sol Liptzin describes the Tseno Ureno as "a fascinating...

head aloft among mountains, the heights of God?" Hence Karo adopted the Halakhot of Rabbi Isaac Alfasi (the Rif), Maimonides (the Rambam), and Asher ben...

Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi (1013–1103) (Arabic: إسحاق الفاسي, Hebrew: ר' יצחק אלפסי), also known as the Alfasi or by his Hebrew acronym, the Rif (Rabbi Isaac...

Isaac ben Solomon Luria Ashkenazi (Hebrew: יִצְחָק בן שלמה לוּרְיָא אשכנזי; c. 1534 – July 25, 1572), commonly known in Jewish religious circles as Ha'ari...

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary refers to 15th-century rabbi Isaac Karo on this line, saying that astrologers commonly associated Saturn with...

writing the Shulchan Aruch, Rabbi Karo based his rulings on three authorities – Maimonides, Asher ben Jehiel (Rosh), and Isaac Alfasi (Rif); he considered the...

Isaac the Blind (Hebrew: רַבִּי יִצְחַק סַגִּי נְהוֹר Rabbī Yīṣḥaq Saggī Nəhōr, literally "Rabbi Isaac, of much light"; c. 1160–1235 in Provence, France)...

authority and Posek, author of HaMapah component of the Shulkhan Arukh Yosef Karo (the Mechaber) (1488–1575), Spanish and Land of Israel legal codifier of...

young boy Hayyim Vital was educated by the scholar Moshe Alshich. Joseph Karo is said to have paid special attention to Vital's early talents and in 1557...

Yareach Yakar on the Zohar. His circle included Moshe Alshich and Joseph Karo, as well as his famous brother-in-law Moses ben Jacob Cordovero. Following...

scholar and was approached by many other well-known rabbis, including Yosef Karo, for Halachic decisions. He was one of the greatest Jewish scholars of Poland...

Nachmanides, Shlomo ben Aderet, and the Sephardi rabbi Joseph ben Ephraim Karo in the Shulchan Aruch. According to the Mishnah Berurah, his reasoning was...

century mystical renaissance in Safed, led by Moshe Cordovero, Joseph Karo and Isaac Luria, made Kabbalistic study a popular goal of Jewish students, to...

the Zohar was accepted by such 16th century Jewish luminaries as Joseph Karo (d. 1575), and Solomon Luria (d. 1574), who wrote nonetheless that Jewish...

special semicha ("ordination") from Jacob Berab in 1538, alongside Joseph Karo, Cordovero's teacher of halakha, Moses ben Joseph di Trani, Yosef Sagis,...

Anointing), a work containing notes on all four sections of Rabbi Joseph Karo's "Shulchan Aruch" (Leghorn, 1805). He was assisted by his two learned sons...

Maimonides), Kabbalists (Abraham Abulafia, Isaac the Blind, Azriel of Gerona, Moses Cordovero, Yosef Karo and Isaac Luria), Hasidic rabbis (Baal Shem Tov,...

Jorge Manuel Theotocópuli José Díaz Morales Juan Antonio Villacañas Joseph Karo Juan Alfon Juan Castro (bishop) Juan González de Mendoza Judah Halevi Juan...

(בע״ה) or BEZ"H (בעז״ה). The book Toldot Yitzhak (The Offspring of Isaac), by Yitzhak Karo, offers the meaning of this custom of writing ב״ה‎ (B"H), at the...

Károly Gesztesi (born Károly Tóth; 16 April 1963 – 4 January 2020) was a Hungarian actor. He was also known as voice actor, in particular for providing...

Frank 4600428 1971-07-08 Cologne 2008 Germany M title application Honfi, Károly 1930-10-25 Pesterzsébet 1996-08-14 1996 Hungary M honorary Hong, Andrew...

Arba'ah Turim by Rabbi Jacob ben Asher and Shulchan Aruch by Rabbi Yosef Karo, draw heavily on Mishneh Torah: both often quote whole sections verbatim...

Austro-Hungarian John Philip Sousa 1854 1932 American Bernard Zweers 1854 1924 Dutch Károly Aggházy 1855 1918 Hungarian Jørgen Ditleff Bondesen 1855 1939 Danish Heinrich...

of the Ben Ish Hai, who preferred the rulings of the Ari zal over Yosef Karo. This was a defining moment for Yosef, who had found a podium to give air...

Joseph Karo of Safed, in his 16th-century legal commentary the Beit Yosef, considers eating milk and fish together to be a health risk, Karo does not...

were also leading legal figures in Judaism, such as Nachmanides and Joseph Karo. Medieval kabbalah elaborates particular reasons for each Biblical mitzvah...

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