Rabbi Yosef ben Rabbi Ephraim Karo, a Sephardi, composed Beit Yosef, and Shulchan Aruch and Kesef Mishneh. [In the Bedikat HaBayit he included what he omitted in the Beit Yosef. Maggid Meisharim, secrets revealed through the Maggid up to Parshat Metzora and part 2 in the order of Tanna debe Eliyahu. Plitat Beit Yosef, responsa.] He passed away in the Holy Land in Safed in the year 5335 (Tzemach David).