A Yemenite Jewish traveler, Zechariah (Yaḥya) al-Dhahiri, visited Rabbi Karo's yeshiva in Safed, in circa 1567 CE[REF] and wrote of his impressions on this wise:[REF] I journeyed from Syria, the province, through Upper Galilee, unto the city of Safed, the land of Canaan...
His reputation during the last thirty years of his life was greater than that of almost any other rabbi since Maimonides.