The Golden Age of Tzfat: The Jews in Exile
After the Spanish expulsion, many prominent rabbis found their way to the city of Tzfat (Safed) in northern Israel. Among them were the Kabbalist Rabbi Isaac Luria; Rabbi Joseph Caro, the author of the Shulchan Aruch; and Rabbi Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz, composer of the Sabbath hymn “Lecha Dodi.”
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Rabbi Mendel Dubov is the director of Chabad in Sussex County, NJ, and a member of faculty at the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, NJ.
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Mendel Dubov
Sparta, NJ
May 17, 2015
Correction Thank you for pointing out. R' Yosef Caro did live until approximately 87 years old. I had confused this with R' Moshe Isserles (Rema) who passed away in his mid or late forties. Reply
michael seixas
May 13, 2015
Mistake in Shiur The Rabbi ventured that Maran died young at 48 but my learning is that Maran lived to his eighties. Reply
Yehoshua Green
June 6, 2018
in response to michael seixas:
Michael How are you? This is Yehoshua (Charlie)Green from SSC how’s it all going bro?
He did say that Maran lived til his eighties & the Rama lived til 40something
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It's not fair sefaradim had all these big rabbis