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	Yosef Karo Summary
		According to various reports, Karo was visited every night by a heavenly mentor who, in the form of what psychology would describe as "automatic speech," revealed to him qabbalistic mysteries, exhortations to ascetic practice, and other matters related to his personal life and to his Talmudic studies.
		Karo received new ideas from his maggid in regard to the Cabala only, for the study of which he had hardly any time; such information was in the nature of sundry cabalistic interpretations of the Pentateuch, that in content, though not in form, remind one of the theories of Karo's pupil, Moses ben Jacob Cordovero.
		Karo's mysticism was not speculative in nature; and he devoted very little time to the Kabbalah, although his maggid often exhorted him not to neglect the study of it (Maggid Mesharim, p.
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	Joseph Karo
		It was during one of these all-night rituals, that Karo was visited for the first time by his maggid, an angel who perched on his shoulder and kissed Jewish law into his mouth.
		The Beit Yosef, written as a voluminous commentary to an earlier code, the Tur, was Joseph Karo's attempt to codify all of Jewish law.
		Karo then wrote a short digest of all of the laws he had dealt with so extensively in the Beit Yosef.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/JosephKaro.html (600 words)

	Rabbi Joseph Karo (1488 -1575) - OU's Department of Jewish Education - The OU Pardes Torah Project
		Rabbi Joseph Karo left Spain in 1492 as a result of the Spanish expulsion of the Jews, and settled with his family in Turkey.
		Karo's magnum opus is his Beit Yosef ("House of Joseph"), an encyclopedic commentary on Rabbi Jacob ben Asher's Tur, a halachic code.
		Karo's halachic decisions were codified in his Shulchan Aruch (which was actually a digest of Bet Yosef).
	www.ou.org /pardes/bios/caro.htm (198 words)

	Amazon.com: "Joseph Karo": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Joseph Karo (1488-1575) to a brief, four-part code of Jewish law that was published in 1565-66.
		Joseph Karo (1488-1575), one of the major rabbinic figures of this period, saw Molcho as his role model and dreamed of dying...
		Joseph Karo deliberately ignored kabbalism in his great rabbinic code Shulhan `Arukh, yet there is little doubt as to the secret eschatological...
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	- - Rabbi Joseph Karo - Glossary for E-Lectures in Jewish Thought - - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Rabbi Joseph ben Ephraim Karo was born in Spain or Portugal in 1488 and after being expelled from Portugal in 1497 (and perhaps from Spain as well in 1492), he moved to Turky.
		Berab was trying to renew the institution of ordination that had been discontinued hundreds of years earlier and he bestowed the honor on Karo.
		In Safed Karo headed a Yeshiva of some two hundred students and sat at the head of the communal council.
	hsf.bgu.ac.il /cjt/files/electures/glKaro.htm (167 words)

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		Rabbi Joseph Karo, who moved to Israel from Turkey in 1563 records the following in his monumental and...
		Dynamics of Judaism 307 Arukh of Rabbi Joseph Karo, make any reference to the subject, thus the possibility of discussing the option of practicing birth control is completely eliminated.8...
		to the Vilna Gaon's Commentary to the Sifra de-Zeniuta," which is reproduced in an appendix to R. Zwi Werblowsky's Rabbi Joseph Karo, Lawyer and Mystic (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1977).
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	'Shulhan Arukh' -- Joseph Karo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		[T]he Shulkhan Arukh was published with Karo's rulings listed first, and Isserles's dissents and addenda included in italics.
		The Shulkhan Arukh's exhaustive presentation of the details of Jewish law is suggested by the following, taken from the section listing the laws of Torah study, in which Karo gives directives to both teachers and pupils:
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	ddickerson.igc.org /karo-shulhan-arukh.html (356 words)

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