Isaac ben Joseph Karo was a Spanish rosh yeshiva, halakhic decisor, preacher, and physician. He was a student of R. Isaac Canpanton in Toledo and later moved to Lisbon and opened a yeshiva. He adopted his nephew, R. Joseph Karo, the famed author of the Shulchan Arukh, and his nephew consulted him on halakhic matters. A few years before the Jews were expelled from Spain, he moved his yeshiva to Portugal. And when the Jews were expelled from Portugal in 1497, he escaped to Turkey, where he served as a rabbi in Constantinople and published his quite popular commentary on the Torah "Toledot Yitzchak" in 1518. Some of his writings of his are included in other works of Joseph Karo, and others have been lost. While he wrote that he hoped to one day settle in the land of Israel, it is unknown whether he ever made it there.
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