Page "Joseph ben Ephraim Karo" Paragraph 11

When some members of the community of Carpentras, France, believed themselves to have been unjustly treated by the majority in a matter relating to taxes, they appealed to Karo, whose letter was sufficient to restore to them their rights ( Rev.

Etudes Juives 18: 133-136 ).

In the East, Karo's authority was, if possible, even greater.

His name heads the decree of excommunication directed against Daud, Joseph Nasi's agent ; and it was Karo who condemned Dei Rossi's Me ' or Enayim to be burned.

Several funeral orations delivered on that occasion have been preserved ( Moses Albelda, Darash Mosheh ; Samuel Katzenellenbogen, Derashot ), as well as some elegies from Karo's passing.