Abraham ben Raphael Caro was an Ottoman rabbi. He flourished at

Adrianople Edirne (; ), historically known as Orestias, Adrianople, is a city in Turkey, in the northwestern part of the Edirne Province, province of Edirne in Eastern Thrace. Situated from the Greek and from the Bulgarian borders, Edirne was the second c ...

in the first half of the eighteenth century. He was a descendant of Rabbi

Joseph Karo Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, also spelled Yosef Caro, or Qaro (; 1488 – March 24, 1575, 13 Nisan 5335 A.M.), was a prominent Sephardic Jewish rabbi renowned as the author of the last great codification of Jewish law, the ''Beit Yosef'', and its ...

, and was the stepson and pupil of Rabbi Eliezer ben Jacob Nachum, author of ''Chazon Nachum'' (Constantinople, 1743–45), whom he probably succeeded as rabbi of Adrianople. Several treatises written by Rabbi Abraham Caro and quotations from others of his works, none of which was published separately, are to be found in his stepfather's work. Abraham Caro died young.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Caro, Abraham ben Raphael 18th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire People from Edirne