Joseph Karo

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Jewish philosopher Talmudist author halakhic authority legal scholar rabbi

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

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Jewish philosopher → Talmudist → author → halakhic authority → legal scholar → rabbi →
authored	Avkat Rochel → Bedek HaBayit → Beit Yosef → Kesef Mishneh → Maggid Meisharim → Responsa → Shulchan Aruch →
birthDate	1488 →
birthPlace	Crown of Castile → Toledo →
burialPlace	Old Cemetery of Safed → Safed →
century	16th century →
citizenship	Ottoman Empire →
commentaryOn	Arba'ah Turim → Mishneh Torah →
deathDate	1575 →
deathPlace	Ottoman Empire → Safed →
describedAs	leading 16th-century rabbi and legal scholar →
ethnicGroup	Sephardi Jews →
field	Halakha → Jewish law → Talmud →
hasPart	glosses and rulings in Shulchan Aruch →
honorificPrefix	Maran → Rabbi →
influenced	Moses Isserles → Sephardi halakha → codification of Jewish law →
influencedBy	Alfasi → Jacob ben Asher → Maimonides → Rosh →
knownFor	Beit Yosef → Kesef Mishneh → Maggid Meisharim → Shulchan Aruch →
languageOfWork	Hebrew →
movement	Orthodox Judaism →
name	Joseph Karo → Maran Yosef Karo → Yosef Karo →
notableWork	Beit Yosef → Kesef Mishneh → Maggid Meisharim → Shulchan Aruch →
occupation	author → posek → rabbi →
positionHeld	chief rabbi of Safed → head of rabbinical court in Safed →
religion	Judaism →
residence	Adrianople → Nikopol → Ottoman Galilee → Safed → Salonika →
spouse	Hanna → second wife (name not widely recorded) → third wife (name not widely recorded) →
subjectOf	Jewish legal studies → rabbinic biographies →
tradition	Sephardi halakhic tradition →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Yosef Karo →	alsoKnownAs
Safed →	associatedWithPerson
Joseph Karo →	name