Karaite Judaism (/ˈkɛərə.aɪt/) or Karaism (/ˈkɛərə.ɪzəm/, sometimes spelt Karaitism (/ˈkɛərə.ɪtɪzəm/; Hebrew: יהדות קראית Yahadut Qara'it); also spelt...

Karaims and Qarays, are an ethnicity of Turkic-speaking adherents of Karaite Judaism in Central and Eastern Europe, especially in the territory of the old...

Look up Karaite or Karaim in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Karaite or Qaraite may refer to: Karaite Judaism, a Jewish religious movement that rejects...

(2004). Karaite Judaism and historical understanding. University of South Carolina Press. p. 119. ISBN 9781570035180. Revel, Bernard (1913). The Karaite Halakah...

several more decades. Non-Rabbinic Judaism—Sadducees, Nazarenes, Karaite Judaism, and Haymanot—contrasts with Rabbinic Judaism and does not recognize the Oral...

of Principles for Reform Judaism", meant to describe and define the spiritual state of modern Reform Judaism. Karaite Judaism holds to Elijah Bashyazi...

conversion. Reform Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism accept both matrilineal and patrilineal descent as well as conversion. Karaite Judaism predominantly...

part of a Karaite community, but also those Jews who held Karaite or proto-Karaite views. The association of each individual with Karaite Judaism must be...

Samaritans and in Karaite Judaism, which asserts that only the Hebrew Bible by itself—that is, disregarding the oral traditions of Rabbinic Judaism—is legally...

18th century. The majority of Subbotniks were converts to Rabbinic or Karaite Judaism from Christianity. Other groups included Judaizing Christians and Spiritual...

size of this community, the Constantinopolitan Karaites have had a great influence on the Karaite Judaism through their literary output. The communities...

various groups such as the Sadducees and Hellenistic Judaism during the Second Temple period; the Karaites during the early and later medieval period; and...

טוֹב‎), "a good conclusion". Unlike the denominations of Rabbinical Judaism, Karaite Judaism believes the Jewish New Year starts with the first month and celebrates...

From such, Karaites have come to consider the most logical understanding of the Hebrew to actually refer to a nation of people. Karaites believe that...

status.[citation needed] In Karaite Judaism the term ger only refers to a non-Jew who has yet to fully convert to Judaism, and once converted to Karaitism...

descendants of Khazars and, later, Polovtsi tribes" who converted to Karaite Judaism.[better source needed] Kevin Alan Brook considered the link to the...

Covenant". Karaite Judaism is a Jewish denomination characterized by reliance on the Tanakh as the sole source of binding Jewish Law. Karaites rejected...

rabbinic texts for the sake of preservation. Rabbinic Judaism contrasts with the Sadducees, Karaite Judaism and Samaritanism, which do not recognize the Oral...

adherents of Rabbinic Judaism. They have historically lived in close proximity to the Crimean Karaites, who follow Karaite Judaism. At first krymchak was...

ḥakīm (wise man). In Karaite Judaism, spiritual leaders are called hakham to distinguish them from their rabbinic (i.e. non-Karaite) counterparts.[citation...

holiday, Shemini Atzeret is also observed by Karaites and Samaritans: For Karaites, followers of a branch of Judaism that accepts the Written Law, but not the...

history – rather than belief in God – as the sources of Jewish identity. Karaite Judaism does not recognize the Oral Law as a divine authority, maintaining...

millennia. As such, Karaite Jews are less an ethnic division, than they are members of a particular branch of Judaism. Karaite Judaism recognizes the Tanakh...

mezuzah as it is used in Rabbinic Judaism, but Karaite Judaism and Samaritanism have their own traditions. In Karaite Judaism the Deuteronomic verse "And you...

associated by some medieval writers with what later came to be known as Karaite Judaism. To escape Alexander Jannaeus's persecution of the Pharisees, Judah...

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considered to be a major founder of Karaite Judaism. His followers were called Ananites and, like modern Karaites, did not believe the Rabbinic Jewish...

the least trusted. The Karaites are an ancient Jewish community that practices a form of Judaism distinct from Rabbinical Judaism, dating ostensibly to...

Russian Karaite may refer to: Karaite Subbotniks, also described as Russian Karaites, adherents of Karaite Judaism Crimean Karaites, adherents of Karaite Judaism...

gradually Rabbinic Judaism or Christianity. Today, kohanim retain a lesser though distinct status within Rabbinic and Karaite Judaism, including certain...