Yosef Karo

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Jewish mystic Sephardic Jew author halakhic authority legal scholar rabbi

Yosef Karo was a preeminent 16th-century Sephardic rabbi and legal scholar best known as the author of the Shulchan Aruch, the foundational code of Jewish law.

Aliases (2)

Rabbi Yosef Karo ×8
Maran Yosef Karo ×1

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Jewish mystic → Sephardic Jew → author → halakhic authority → legal scholar → rabbi →
alsoKnownAs	HaMechaber → Joseph Karo → Maran → Maran Beit Yosef →
birthPlace	Crown of Castile → Toledo →
birthYear	1488 →
countryOfCitizenship	Ottoman Empire →
deathPlace	Ottoman Syria → Safed →
deathYear	1575 →
era	16th century →
ethnicGroup	Sephardi Jews →
familyName	Karo →
fieldOfWork	Halakha → Jewish law → Kabbalah → Talmud →
givenName	Yosef →
influenced	Kitzur Shulchan Aruch authors → Moses Isserles → Shulchan Aruch HaRav authors → later Ashkenazic poskim → later Sephardic poskim →
influencedBy	Asher ben Jehiel → Isaac Alfasi → Jacob ben Asher → Maimonides → Nahmanides →
languageOfWork	Hebrew →
mainWorkDescribes	codification of Jewish law →
movement	Orthodox Judaism →
notableFor	authoring the Shulchan Aruch → systematizing halakhic rulings for Sephardic Jewry →
notableWork	Beit Yosef → Kesef Mishneh → Maggid Meisharim → Shulchan Aruch →
placeOfBurial	Old Cemetery of Safed → Safed →
positionHeld	chief rabbi of Safed → rabbinic judge →
religion	Judaism →
residence	Adrianople → Nikopol → Ottoman Syria → Safed → Salonika →

Referenced by (16)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Beit Yosef ("Rabbi Yosef Karo") → Beit Yosef → Shulchan Aruch ("Rabbi Yosef Karo") →	author
Rif ("Rabbi Yosef Karo") → Rosh ("Rabbi Yosef Karo") →	influenced
Joseph Karo → Joseph Karo ("Maran Yosef Karo") →	name
Beit Yosef → Yosef Caro Synagogue →	namedAfter
Yosef Caro Synagogue →	associatedWith
Even Ha’ezer ("Rabbi Yosef Karo") →	authoredBy
Family purity laws ("Rabbi Yosef Karo") →	codifiedBy
Yosef Caro Synagogue ("Rabbi Yosef Karo") →	dedicatedTo
Sephardi Jews →	halakhicAuthority
Acharonim ("Rabbi Yosef Karo") →	hasPart
Moshe Isserles →	influencedBy