The authenticity of the Zohar was accepted by such 16th century Jewish luminaries as R ' Yosef Karo ( d. 1575 ), R ' Moses Isserles ( d. 1572 ), and R ' Solomon Luria ( d. 1574 ), who wrote that Jewish law ( Halacha ) follows the Zohar, except where the Zohar is contradicted by the Babylonian Talmud.

This work was so important in Jewish law that Yosef Karo included the ROSH together with Maimonides and Isaac Alfasi as one of the three major poskim ( decisors ) considered in determining the final ruling in his Shulkhan Arukh.

Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, also spelled Yosef Caro, or Qaro, ( Toledo, 1488 – Safed, 1575 ) was author of the last great codification of Jewish law, the Shulchan Aruch, which is still authoritative for all Jews pertaining to their respective communities.

Karo was born in Toledo, Spain in 1488.

Karo was one of the first he ordained and after Berab's death, Karo tried to purpetuate the scheme by ordaining his pupil Moses Alshech, but he finally gave up his endeavors, convinced that he could not overcome the opposition to ordination.

When Jacob Berab died, Karo was regarded as his successor, and together with Rabbi Moshe of Trani he headed the Rabbinical Court of Safed.

( However, these two explanations are not necessarily contradictory — in the merit of the Mishna Karo constantly reviewed, he was worthy of an angelic teacher ).

The Italian Azariah dei Rossi, though his views differed widely from Karo's, collected money among the rich Italian Jews for the purpose of having a work of Karo's printed ; and Moses Isserles compelled the recognition of one of Karo's decisions at Kraków, although he thought Karo was wrong.

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.

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.

Karo received new ideas from his maggid in regard to the Kabbala only ; 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.

It was authored in Safed, Ottoman Eyalet of Damascus, by Yosef Karo in 1563 and published in Venice two years later.

In October 2004 ( Tishrei 5765 ), a group of rabbis representing varied Orthodox communities in Israel undertook a ceremony in Tiberias, where the original Sanhedrin was disbanded, which is claimed to re-establish the body according to the proposal of Maimonides and the Jewish legal rulings of Rabbi Yosef Karo.

The original cast was: George Mallaby, Peter Regan, Fred ' Cul ' Cullen, Belinda Giblin, Barrie Barkla, Helen Hemingway, Judy Nunn, Paul Karo, Ken James, Monica Maughan, Kay McFeeter, Graeme Blundell, Briony Behets, Fred Betts, Ken Snodgrass, Lois Ramsay.

Vice Admiral H. Arnold Karo was the first Deputy Administrator of ESSA.

Vice Admiral Karo was the highest-ranking officer in the history of the USC & GS / ESSA / NOAA Corps.

The rank of vice admiral exists but requires congressional approval for re-activation ; the only officer to hold that rank was Henry A. Karo in 1965.

Berab then conferred semikhah through a laying on of hands to four rabbis, including Joseph Karo, who was later to become the author of the Shulchan Aruch, widely viewed as the most important code of Jewish law from the 17th century onwards.

This project is essentially innovative, in that its attempt to unify the various Halakhic traditions in light of the rulings of Yosef Karo does not constitute a return to the traditionally accepted Sephardic approach ( nor, indeed, to the traditional approach of the Jews of Baghdad, where Yosef was born ).

Attempts in the 16th century to reinstate the semicha were unsuccessful ; Rabbi Yosef Karo was one of the recipients of this semicha.

Other investigators include in 1948 the German archaeologist G. Karo ; in 1950 Professor Robert Demangel, who was from 1933 to 1948 the director of the French School of Archaeology in Athens ; in 1950 Alfred Philippson, German geologist and geographer ; in 1952 Spiros Dontas, Greek writer and member of the Academy of Athens ; in 1954 Aristos Stauropoulos, a Greek writer who published the History of the city of Aegeion ; in 1956 the Greek Professor N. P. Moutsopoulos ; in 1967 Spiros Marinatos, a Greek archaeologist who wrote the Research about Helike and in 1968 Helike-Thira-Thieves ; in 1962 George K. Georgalas, the Greek writer ; and in 1967 Nikos Papahatzis, a Greek archaeologist who published Pausanias ’ Description of Greece.

This was the most formal but not the first accusation of its kind: Georg Karo had said that Martinetti told him he had stolen the fibula unengraved from the Tomba Bernadini.

He became a world-renowned scholar and was approached by many other well-known rabbis, including Yosef Karo, for Halachic decisions.

Rear Admiral Henry Arnold Karo served as the 4th head of USC & GS.

# Henry Arnold Karo, ( 1955 – 1965 )

Karo Syrup's own website contends that the dish was a 1930s " discovery " of a " new use for corn syrup " by a corporate sales executive's wife.

Tom Turbo was built by Karo and Klaro, who had a great supply of fairly new technological items as their parents always wanted to be up-to-date with everything available.

In writing the Shulchan Aruch, Rabbi Karo based his rulings on three authorities — Maimonides ( Rambam ), Asher ben Jehiel ( Rosh ), and Isaac Alfasi ( Rif ); he considered the Mordechai in inconclusive cases.

His comments are now incorporated into the body of all printed editions of the Shulchan Aruch, typeset in a different script ; today, " Shulchan Aruch " refers to the combined work of Karo and Isserles.

" He called on all Congressmen and Indians to maintain discipline via ahimsa, and Karo ya maro (" Do or die ") in the cause of ultimate freedom.

* 1575 – Yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi ( b. 1488 )

As a result, Rabbi Yosef Karo, author of the Code of Jewish Law, ( Orach Chaim 462: 4.

The generic name Okapia derives from the Lese Karo name o ' api, while the specific name ( johnstoni ) is in recognition of the explorer Harry Johnston, who organized the expedition that first acquired an okapi specimen for science from the Ituri Forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

* United States v. Karo ( 1984 )

* March 24 – Yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi ( b. 1488 )

** Rabbi Yosef Karo, Jewish scholar ( d. 1575 )

In Indonesia's North Sumatra province, around Lake Toba, Z. acanthopodium is known as andaliman in the Batak Toba language and tuba in the Batak Karo language.

; 1488 – 1575: Rabbi Yosef Karo spends 20 years compiling the Beit Yosef, an enormous guide to Jewish law.

Born in Spain, Yosef Karo lives and dies in Safed.

After the expulsion of the Jews from Portugal in 1497, the Ottomans invited the Jews to the Ottoman territory and Karo went with his parents to Nikopolis of the Ottoman Empire, and spent the rest of his life in the Ottoman Empire.

Between 1520 and 1522 Karo settled at Edirne.

Berab exerted a great influence upon him, and Karo became an enthusiastic supporter of Berab's plans for the restitution of semicha ( rabbinical ordination ) which had been in abeyance for over 11 centuries.