Editing Joseph Karo (section)

==Biography==
Joseph Karo was born in [[Toledo, Spain|Toledo]], Spain, in 1488.<ref name=EB/> In 1492, aged four, he was [[Expulsion of Jews from Spain|expelled from Spain]] with his family as a result of the [[Alhambra Decree]] and subsequently settled in the [[Kingdom of Portugal]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Carsten L. |last=Wilke |title=Histoire des Juifs Portugais |location=Paris |publisher=Chandeigne |year=2007 |isbn=9782915540109 }}</ref> Following his father's death, Karo's uncle Isaac, an author of biblical commentary, adopted him.<ref>[https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-shulhan-arukh/ The Shulchan Aruch], My Jewish Learning</ref> After the [[History of the Jews in Portugal#Portugal|expulsion of the Jews from Portugal]] in 1497, the Ottomans invited the Jews to settle within [[Ottoman Empire|their empire]]. Karo went with his parents, after a brief move to Morocco, to [[Nikopol, Bulgaria|Nikopolis]], then a city under Ottoman rule. In Nikopol, he received his first instruction from his father, who was himself an eminent [[Talmudist]]. He was married twice, firstly to Isaac Saba's daughter, and, then after her death, to the daughter of Hayyim Albalag, both of these men being well-known Talmudists.

Between 1520 and 1522 Karo settled at [[Edirne|Adrianople]]. He later settled in the city of [[Safed]], [[Ottoman Galilee]], where he arrived about 1535, having ''en route'' spent several years at [[Thessaloniki|Salonica]] (1533) and [[Istanbul]]. By 1555, Joseph Karo was already a resident of the village [[Biriyya]] near Safed, during which year he completed writing the first order of the ''Shulhan Arukh'', [[Orach Chayim]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Ishtori Haparchi|author-link=Ishtori Haparchi|editor=Avraham Yosef Havatzelet|title=Kaftor wa-Ferach|edition=3 |volume=2 (chapter 11) |page=53 (note 14) |year=2007|location=Jerusalem|language=he|oclc=32307172}}</ref>