Rabbi Yosef Karo

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Rabbi Yitzchok Karo authored a philosophical commentary on the Torah called 'Toldos Yitzchok' during his youth. Eventually he became a Rosh Yeshiva in Lisbon, Portugal. After the expulsion of the Jews from Portugal he traveled to Turkey and then moved on to Jerusalem. Rabbi Yitzchok suffered greatly during these travels and all his children died on the way to hardships and hunger.
 
Rabbi Yitzchok Karo authored a philosophical commentary on the Torah called 'Toldos Yitzchok' during his youth. Eventually he became a Rosh Yeshiva in Lisbon, Portugal. After the expulsion of the Jews from Portugal he traveled to Turkey and then moved on to Jerusalem. Rabbi Yitzchok suffered greatly during these travels and all his children died on the way to hardships and hunger.
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Rabbi Yosef Karo's first wife was the daughter of Rabbi Chayim Albalag, a wealthy Torah scholar from Adrianople, Turkey. This wife got sick shortly after the marriage and passed away. There were no children from this marriage.
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After this Rabbi Yosef Karo married his second wife the daughter of Rabbi Yitzchok Saba and sister of his friend Rabbi Shmuel. Shlomo, his firstborn son came from this marriage.

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(Hebrew: מרן רבי יוסף קארו / Spelling: Josef, Joseph, Caro, Qaro, Koro / Other names: Rebbe Yosef ben Ephraim, The Michaber, HaMechaber, Maran, the Bais Yosef / Definition: 16th century Jewish Rabbi, Author of the Shulchan Aruch.)

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Early Life

Birth

Yosef Karo in Toledo, Spain in 1488 to his father Rabbi Ephraim. At age three he was accepted into the Bais Medrash of Rabbi Yackov Beirav, who was later to become his main teacher.

Expulsion from Spain

In 1492 at age 4, Yosef Karo was forced to relocate along with his family to Lisbon, Portugal due to the Spanish Expulsion. During his stay in Lisbon, he continued his studies under Rabbi Yackov Beirav, who had immigrated there as well.

Expulsion from Portugal

After 4 years, Portugal caved into Spanish pressure and expelled its Jews in 1469. Once again the Karos had to flee, this time to Turkey.

Constantinople

Yosef Caro reached Constantinople, Turkey at age eight. There he studied Torah from his father Rabbi Ephraim and his Uncle Rabbi Yitzchock. For nineteen years Rabbi Yosef Caro lived in Constantinople studying Torah, in worldly seclusion, purifying himself with many fasts and Segufim. It was during this time that he started putting together notes on the Rambam's 'Yad Hachazaka'. These later served as the basis for his sefer the 'Bais Yosef'. Despite the city's many Torah scholars, Rabbi Yosef Caro became renown as an extra ordinary genius. People started sending him their Halacha questions and it was there that he first gained the title 'Moran', an Aramaic term for 'our master'.

Adrianople

At age 30, Rabbi Yosef Caro married his first wife and moved to Adrianople, Turkey to live by his wealth father-in-law Rabbi Chayim Albalag. This marriage did not last long since his wife got sick and passed away. Rabbi Shmuel Saba, a friend of Rabbi Yosef Karo set him up with his sister and they got married, giving birth to a son Shlomo. In Adrianople he first started composing the 'Beth Yosef' a commentary on the Tur. During his stay in the city Rabbi Yosef Karo was appointed as the head of the local Yeshiva.

Family

The Karos

Founder of the Karo family was Rabbi Shimon Karo, author of the Yalkut Shimoni. His son, Rabbi Yosef was a student of Rashi and is mentioned in the Tosefot. Eventually part of the Karo family reached Spain and settled in the city of Toledo.

Rabbi Yosef Karo's grandfather, a wealth merchant, carried the same exact name as his grandson, Rabbi Yosef ben Ephraim. He had two sons Ephraim and Yitzchok who he raised as Torah scholars.

Uncle - Yitzchok Karo

Rabbi Yitzchok Karo authored a philosophical commentary on the Torah called 'Toldos Yitzchok' during his youth. Eventually he became a Rosh Yeshiva in Lisbon, Portugal. After the expulsion of the Jews from Portugal he traveled to Turkey and then moved on to Jerusalem. Rabbi Yitzchok suffered greatly during these travels and all his children died on the way to hardships and hunger.

Marriages

Rabbi Yosef Karo's first wife was the daughter of Rabbi Chayim Albalag, a wealthy Torah scholar from Adrianople, Turkey. This wife got sick shortly after the marriage and passed away. There were no children from this marriage.

After this Rabbi Yosef Karo married his second wife the daughter of Rabbi Yitzchok Saba and sister of his friend Rabbi Shmuel. Shlomo, his firstborn son came from this marriage.

 
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