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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...
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    by some rabbis, among them Nachmanides, Shlomo ben Aderet, and the Sephardi rabbi Joseph ben Ephraim Karo in the Shulchan Aruch. According to the Mishnah...
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    ISBN 978-0-415-44009-7. "Jacob ben Asher". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2015-02-03. "Joseph ben Ephraim Karo". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved...
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    Ullman. "The Laws of Tisha B'Av". Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 650:2 Joseph ben Ephraim Karo. "Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim, Siman 554". Retrieved 30 July 2020...
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    not made according to the laws applying to matzot. As a result, Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, author of the Shulchan Aruch or "Code of Jewish Law" (Orach Chayim...
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  • purpose of inheritance, including levirate marriage. Maimonides and Joseph ben Ephraim Karo see fit to repeat this, and confirm that a mamzer can serve as...
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  • Shulchan Aruch) Yosef Karo (Mechaber, 1488–1575), 16th-century Spanish and Land of Israel legal codifier of the Shulchan Aruch Meir ben Isaac (1482–1565)...
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    NY: Alpha Translation & Publishing, 2010. Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim, Moses ben Israel Isserles, and Yitsḥak ben Aharon. Shulḥan ʻarukh  ... Krakow: Sons...
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  • Retrieved 30 November 2021 – via Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, Shulchan Aruch, "Choshen Mishpat", chapter 2 Brafman, Iakov Aleksandrovich...
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  • Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese daimyō (b. 1514)[citation needed] 1575 – Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, Spanish-Portuguese rabbi and author (b. 1488) 1603 – Elizabeth...
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    best-known commentary on the Arba'ah Turim is the Beit Yosef by rabbi Joseph ben Ephraim Karo: this goes beyond the normal functions of a commentary, in that...
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  • Nahmanides, Yechiel of Paris with several hundred of his students, Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk and 300 of his followers, and over...
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  • Yosef), written by Rabbi Joseph Karo, is a long and detailed commentary on the Halakhic code Arba'ah Turim ("Tur") by Jacob ben Asher (fl. c. 1300). The...
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  • they worked in wool dyeing. Menahem was also a correspondent of Joseph ben Ephraim Karo. Menahem was considered one of the town's best scholars and published...
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    study, and led in its turn to the great Codes of Maimonides and of Rabbi Joseph Karo. Secondly, it served as one of the "Three Pillars of Halakha", as an...
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  • Provence Kohanim Greats: Rabbi Ahron HaKohen of Luniel at Kehuna.org Joseph Karo, Kesef Mishneh, Hilchot Shofar Sukkah veLulav, chapter 1 Yitzchak Sheilat...
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    Maimonides (redirect from Moussa Ben Maimon)
    codes of Jewish law, e.g. Arba'ah Turim by Rabbi Jacob ben Asher and Shulchan Aruch by Rabbi Yosef Karo, draw heavily on Mishneh Torah: both often quote whole...
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    times with the stringent opinions of the Ben Ish Hai, who preferred the rulings of the Ari zal over Yosef Karo. This was a defining moment for Yosef, who...
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  • since its publication. This work was so important in Jewish law that Yosef Karo included the Rosh together with Maimonides and Isaac Alfasi as one of the...
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  • unfounded hypothesis". Isaac was the son of the famous talmudist, Abraham ben David of Posquières (Raavad). The Bahir first appeared in the Middle Ages...
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  • Berab ordained included Joseph Karo, Moses ben Joseph di Trani, and possibly also Abraham Shalom and Israel ben Meir di Curiel. Karo used his status to ordain...
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  • Solomon ben Joseph Sirillo (British Library) 1500-1599, Volume 2 of a portion of the Palestinian Talmud, with a commentary by Solomon ben Joseph Sirillo...
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  • the Shulchan Aruch. He greatly influenced Rabbi Yosef Karo. He is quoted extensively by Rav Karo in both the Shulchan Aruch and Beit Yosef (Tur Choshen...
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    ben Joseph Vital, which read שמחת רשב"י "the celebration of Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai" but was mistakenly printed as שמת רשב"י "when Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai...
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    Benei Baraq 2008 (Hebrew), pp. 58, 62. For his description of Rabbi Joseph Karo's yeshiva, click here: Zechariah Dhahiri#Highlights from journey. Amram...
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    Rabbi Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz (the Keli Yakar), Chaim ibn Attar, and the translation and commentary attributed to Rabbi Jonathan ben Uzziel, known...
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  • Mesorah Publications) page 1041 ("Laws of Prayer", nr. 103–104); also Yosef Karo, Schulchan Aruch (1565), part 1, Rabbi Dr. Azriel Rosenfeld, Chapter 8 –...
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    Turim, an early code of Jewish law, brings the views of Maimonides. Joseph Karo in his commentary "Beit Yosef" quotes Nahmanides, whereas in his code...
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    latter recently suggested a state comprising the territories of Judah and Ephraim during the time of David, that was subsequently enlarged to include areas...
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