Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Joseph was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, the son of Rabbi Raphael Joseph, and was Jewish. [1] [2] [3] He was the grandson of Rabbi Jacob Joseph (1840–1902), one of the most famous rabbis in New York at the turn of the century and for many years the Chief Rabbi of New York City.
Joseph ben Moses Babad (1801 in Przeworsk – 1874 in Ternopil) was a rabbi, posek and Talmudist, best known for his work, the Minchat Chinuch, a commentary on the Sefer Hachinuch. Babad served as rabbi at Bohorodczany, Zbarizh, Sniatyn, and Tarnopol where in 1857 he was appointed as Av Beit Din, a position he held for the rest of his life. [1]
Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, also spelled Yosef Caro, or Qaro (Hebrew: יוסף קארו; 1488 – March 24, 1575, 13 Nisan 5335 A.M.), [1] [2] was a prominent Sephardic Jewish rabbi renowned as the author of the last great codification of Jewish law, the Beit Yosef, and its popular analogue, the Shulhan Arukh. [3]
The Maggid Mesharim (Hebrew: מגיד מישרים, "Preacher of Righteousness"), published in 1646, is a mystical diary, in which Rabbi Joseph Karo during a period of fifty years recorded the nocturnal visits of the Maggid - an angelic being, his heavenly mentor, the personified Mishna (the authoritative collection of Jewish Oral Law). His ...
Joseph ben Solomon Ṭaiṭazaḳ (Hebrew: יוסף בן שלמה טאיטאצק), also referred to by the acronym MahaRITaTS, was a talmudic authority and kabalist who lived at Salonica in the 15th and 16th centuries. He was a member of the Taitazak family.
The head of them all is the wise man, Rabbi Joseph Karo, and the wise man, Rabbi Moses di Trani, and Rabbi Moses Cordovero, the kabbalist, who spreads out his roots by the river; while in Tiberius was the wise man, (Rabbi Eleazar b. Simeon) ben Yochai, in whose generation he was of singular character. [1]
Joseph was born c. 902 in Sura.His father Jacob ben Natronai was the Gaon of Sura from 911 to 924, and his mother descended from the Exilarchs. [1] Much of his early life is unknown, although in 930, the Exilarch David ben Zakkay appointed Rabbi Joseph as the Sura Gaon in retaliation to the previous Gaon, Saadia, with whom David got into a heated dispute, regarding Saadia's support for the ...
Rabbi Joseph Funeral Riot (Le Monde illustré, August 23, 1902). In 1897, Joseph suffered a stroke, which incapacitated him, although he was still Chief Rabbi when New York saw the outbreak of the 1902 kosher meat boycott, which began on May 11. At that time, 400 kosher butchers on the East Side organized a boycott of the meat trusts ...