Mind-Benders of Jewish History
Print carried the Shulchan Aruch to the whole Jewish world
Rav Yosef Karo lived in the first century of the printing press — and it was print, brand-new technology, that carried his Shulchan Aruch to every corner of the Jewish world within his own lifetime.
How we know
Joseph Karo 1488–1575; the Shulchan Aruch was first printed in Venice in 1565, a decade before his death.
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