Joseph Chayyim ben Isaac Selig Caro was a German-Russian rabbi. He was educated as an Orthodox Talmudist, and married the daughter of Rabbi Tzebi Hirsch Amsterdam of Konin, government of Kalisz in Russian Poland, whose pupil he became. He afterward established himself as a merchant in Gnesen (Gniezno), near Posen (Poznań), whence, at about the age of forty, he was called to the rabbinate of Pinne (Pniewy), in the province of Posen.

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Yosef Caro (sometimes Joseph Caro was one of the most significant leaders in Rabbinic Judaism and the author of the Shulchan Arukh, an authoritative work on Halakhah (Jewish law). Caro was never celebrated as an individual, but as a "meḥabber" (author). Therefore, the name Yosef Caro was only significant in relation to his works. Throughout Jewish history, there has been a tendency to remember figures by their magnum opus.

Solomon Molcho (Shlomo Mol'kho, meaning "Solomon His Angel"), originally Diogo Pires was a "New Christian" who converted back to Judaism, declared himself the Messiah, and was burned at the stake for apostasy. Molcho was born a Christian to Marrano parents in Portugal about 1500. His baptismal name probably was Diogo Pires. He held the post of secretary in one of the higher courts of his native country.

Rabbi Moshe Alshich (or Alshech, known as the "Alshich Hakadosh (the Holy)", was a prominent Jewish rabbi and biblical commentator in the latter part of the 16th century. He lived in Safed, Palestine. The Alshich was born in 1508 in Turkey, and was the son of ִHayyim Alshech. He later moved to Safed where he became a student of Rabbi Joseph Caro. His students included Rabbi ִHayim Vital and Rabbi Yom Tov Tzahalon. He died in Safed in 1593.

Joseph ben Solomon Ṭaiṭazaḳ, also referred to by the acronym "MahaRITaTS", was a talmudic authority and kabalist who lived at Salonica in the 15th and 16th centuries. With his father and his brother he went in 1492 from Spain, his native land, to Salonica, where he became rabbi. He was considered one of the greatest Talmudists of his time, even Joseph Caro invoking his authority ("Abḳat Rokel," § 56).

Rabbi Chaim ben Yosef Vital (1543 in Safed-23 April 1620 in Damascus) was one of the most famous exponents of Kabbalah. As a young boy, Rabbi Chaim Vital was educated by the scholar, Rabbi Moses Alshech. Other than that, most of his early life is full of legends. For instance, it is claimed that at the age of twelve, he was told by a chiromancer that when he reached the age of twenty-four, he would find himself standing before two roads, …

Yom Tov ben Moshe Tzahalon (Maharitatz (Hebrew: יום טוב בן משה צהלון) was a student of Moses di Trani and Moshe Alshich, and published a collection of responsa. The Jewish Encyclopedia gives his dates as (1557-1638). At the early age of twenty-five Tzahalon (Ẓahalon) was requested by Samuel Yafeh, a rabbi of Constantinople, to decide a difficult and complicated problem which had been referred to himself (Ẓahalon, …

Moses Galante (the Elder) (Hebrew: משה בן מרדכי גאלאנטי), son of Mordecai, was born about the middle of the 16th century. He was a disciple of Joseph Caro, and was ordained by him when but twenty-two years of age. He wrote sermons for a wedding, for Passover, and for a thanksgiving service, printed with the younger Obadiah Bertinoro's commentary on Book of Esther (Venice, 1585).

Elisha Gallico ben Gabriel (died at Safed about 1583) was Palestinian Jewish Talmudist. He was a pupil of Joseph Caro. After the death of his master, Gallico was nominated chief of the "yeshibah" of Safed. He is frequently mentioned in the responsa collection "Abḳat Rokel," in which "responsum" No. 84 belongs to him.

Isaac de Leon, who lived at Toledo, Spain, was one of the last rabbis of Castile. He was a native of Leon, and a pupil of Isaac Campanton, and, like Moses de Leon, a kabbalist and a believer in miracles. Joseph Caro and others honored him with the title of "the great teacher." He was more than seventy years of age at his death, which occurred some years before the expulsion of the Jews from Spain; he was mourned by many pupils.

Vidal of Tolosa was a Spanish rabbi and scholar of the latter half of the fourteenth century. Vidal resided in Catalonia, where he prepared his most important work, "Maggid Mishneh", a commentary on Maimonides' "Mishneh Torah". This work covered the entire contents of the "Mishneh Torah", but by 1906 only those parts were extant which cover the following books: iii., iv., v. (ch. i.-ix. only), xi., xii. (ch. i.-iii. only), and xiii.

Yisroel ben Shmuel Ashkenazi of Shklov was a Talmudist, one of a group of Talmudical scholars of Shklov who were attracted to Vilna by Elijah Gaon (1720-97). Ashkenazi was one of "the last arrivals," and attended upon the gaon as a disciple for less than a year. He gained Elijah's confidence, and was chosen to arrange for publication the gaon's commentary to the first two parts of the "Shulchan Aruch". That on the "Orach Chaim" was published in Shklov in 1803.

Abraham ben Solomon Treves (Ẓarfati) was a scholar of the 16th century. He emigrated from Italy to Turkey, where he officiated as rabbi of German and Portuguese congregations in Adrianople and various other cities. He favored the Sephardic ritual, and corresponded with David Cohen and Elijah Mizrahi. From one of his letters to Joseph Caro ("Abḳat Rokel," No. 34) it appears that he was a physician also.

Judah ben Solomon Taitazak, brother of Joseph ben Solomon, was a Talmudist who lived at Salonica in the 15th and 16th centuries. He was the author of "She'erit Yehudah" (Salonica, 1599-1600), commentating and supplementing Joseph Caro's "Bet Yosef," on the second volume of the Ṭurim.