Talk:Karaite Judaism

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audience that the Karaims of Eastern Europe (Crimea, Russia etc.) were once Karaite Jews, rather than Karai-Tatars (meaning black tatars) Tengri worshippers who were converted to an early form of Unitarianism and who have been confused with Jews ever since. The intention obviously being to encourage Karaites Jews to read the works of Jesus and Muhammad and discover "Messianic Karaite Judaism". Warshy seems particularly interested in hiding the Karai-Tatar truth and pushing the Evrei = Jewish POV. But he is certainly not alone. The truth about the Karaims of Eastern Europe is that there was only a question on their identity after Catherine the Creat partitioned the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth and invaded Crimea. At this point the Karaims first came to the attention of the Russian authorities. While the Karaims had enjoyed officer-rank privileges under the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth, the Russians were not sure at first how to apply the anti-Jewish legislation inherited from the Commonwealth, and the question of whether Karaims were meant to be included under the legislation arose. Within two years, Benjamin Aga had explained the history of the Karaims to Tzarina Catherine the Great, and the Officer-privileges for Karaims were enshrined in Russian law and not long after that the Imperial Russian Orthodox Church granted the Church of the Karaims official status with two diocese putting them on an equal status with Islam in the Empire. However, the Wiki-Missionaries present quite a different POV throughout all the wiki articles, that except for their Tatar identity the views of the Karaims of Eastern Europe may have had a legitimate place amidst the Karaite Jews. They present the Karaims' "Khazar" identity (which has always been well-accepted in Russian academic circles e.g.

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and the Karaims together and this caused Tuvia Babovich to move to Cairo where he maintained a pure form of Crimean Karaite Judaism which has today grown into Universal Karaite Judaism. Thus the Lithuanian Karaims were clearly very close to this sect in the early 20th century. The Prayer of Jesus found its way into the Siddur of the the modern Crimean Karaites for the same reasons. Thus the so-called "Karaites" of East Europe who are called Karaims and should very clearly be distinguished from other Karaite Jews whose tradition comes from Tuvia Babovich's group of original (now extinct) Crimean Karaite Jews who did not include the prayer of Jesus into their Siddur. The Exodus of Tuvia Babovich to Cairo marks the death of traditional

2254:..This book was printed during the revival of Karaite religious life in Crimea tha was totally abandonded during 70 years of Soviet russification and atheism The book is based Lithuanian sources that developed national and religious life in liberal Lithuania, where all traditional Hebrew prayers were translated to Karaim Language in 1930's.In soviet Lithuania local government allowed to keep Karaim tradition. Regarding this Cristian pray the Eupatorian author understands that this pray it is not integral part of traditional Karaite liturgy. It is a reason of this note. 2999:

16th-century author about the Karaites a violation of Original Research? Perhaps you have misunderstood when there is actually a violation of "original research." Furthermore, the citation is not even a "Primary Source," but a "Secondary Source" which speaks about an event that happened in the days of a 13th-century Rabbi. Still, even if it were a Primary Source, we are occasionally permitted to cite Primary Sources when used carefully. If you have any questions about the source, you may wish to refer your concerns to

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the page that refers to your fringe, non-notable religious-ethnic sect, making a big thing out of a couple hundred people allegedly belonging to some kind of invented, impossible, oxymoronic "Islamic Mosaism" are up for exposure. You lie through your teeth saying the complete content change you made twice are a request for sources. And you reverted it twice already saying you are "not" starting an edit war. You have crossed all lines now and I am reporting you to the appropriate forums.

1195: 3114:, item # 8, by Dr. Menachem Zucker, says that they were principally found in Babylonia and Egypt throughout all times, but I can find a better source, I'm sure. If others here agree that the addition is inappropriate, I see no problems with removing it. Until then, there is no need to remove it, as it adds a certain scope and dimension to this article. Perhaps though it can be slightly reworded. In my view, it is important to note how that, both, Maimonides and his son, Rabbi 1106: 1085: 518: 405: 284: 384: 294: 263: 2325:

Avinu ) and the Turkic liturgy language instead of Hebrew . Some modern branches of Rabinnic Judaism abandoned Hebrew language in liturgy by the same way . After Christians abandoned Latin prays they still remaining to be Christians.The Shapshal's influence of Nestorian Christianity taken place by his opinion at Early Middle Ages affected all Karaite Judaism and not related to religious reforms of assimilated Crimean Karaites in Lithuanua

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liturgy that not dedicated to Jesus but to Father-God (like Jews to Avinu Malkeinu),But no one of them are not Christians except converted to Christianity (mainly in emigration at 20 century) . Karaite Judaism indeed recognize Jesus as prophit but not of Karaits.New year/XMAS celebration is not religious.Many American Jews also have "Hanuka Tree" in their houses.Some non religious Jews in Israel also do that

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See Also section had so many entries that it was subsectioned into various categories (admittedly, I was the one who organized it into sections a long time ago because it was a long mess). Many of the topics see-alsoed were already wikilinked in the body of the article. The only remaining hint of sectioning is three people who are secondary bulleted under the

3118:(rabbinic stalwarts), saw the Karaite movement and what, precisely, they had to say about it. Again, if you strongly feel that this addition is inappropriate where it is currently, perhaps we can agree to have it placed in a different section, or perhaps even ask the opinion of a broader Knowledge audience through a RfC. I'm all for a consensus here. Be well. 1515:

that your fringe sect does not belong to Karaism. Your concerted campaing of religious lies and falsifications do not belong in Knowledge at all, and they will be eventually purged. But here you beware. Nothing here is going to be changed without proper discussion first. No one reacted to your previous posts here, but now you have crossed all lines.

3083:. The source is terse and it does not mention any date, but only places the event in the time of Rabbi Abraham ben Maimonides. He writes explicitly that they "in one day" all returned to rabbinic Judaism, and he adds that Rabbi Abraham ben Maimonides "was not reluctant to receive them," meaning to say that he took the position of his father 3106:, since he is like one that has been constrained against his will. , such as those whom we said still maintain the ways of their Karaite fathers who have erred. Therefore, it is fitting to bring them back to repentance, and to draw them back with conciliatory words, until they have returned to the full-force of the Torah" 2937:{{cite web|title=Latvijas iedzīvotāju sadalījums pēc nacionālā sastāva un valstiskās piederības (Datums=01.07.2018)|url=http://www.pmlp.gov.lv/lv/assets/documents/statistika/Iedz%C4%ABvot%C4%81ju%20re%C4%A3istrs%20st.%20uz%2001072018/ISVN_Latvija_pec_TTB_VPD.pdf|accessdate=4 November 2018|language=Latvian}}</ref: --> 3101:

3:2-3, where Maimonides writes: "... but the children of these people who are in error, and their offspring whose fathers had led them astray and were born , whether the Karaites who were raised on such an opinion, lo! he is as a child that was held captive among them and was raised that way, and is

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I am explaining you again and again and you do not understand that there is no any significant difference between religion of Crimean Karaites in Lithuania and Crimea and Karaite Judaism.All is the same,except 2 shallow differences in the ritual : one pray (that does not intended Jesus but to Jewish

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For editors here interested in, and who focus on Karaite history more specifically, an entire revision of it is being undertaken in Knowledge right now by an avowed priest of a supposed "Islamic Mosaist" sect. For those interested, the hub/nub of this new attemtp to completely rewrite Karaite history

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from the 16th century? I don't believe such a sub-section is warranted as it stands, and based on the single non-historiographical source it refers to now. Unless you can provide some answers to all the questions above, I intend to remove this rather meager in historical substance sub-section. Thank

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Since this seems to be one of your favorite primary sources about ancient and medieval Jewish history, it is time you start getting acquainted with modern reliable historiographical sources, about this particular rabbinical figure. As it stands, that sub-section is just an anecdote based on oirginal

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It is all a big misunderstanding. There are a type of Subbotnik Christian who use the prayer of Jesus alongside the Karaite Jewish Siddur. They have long been called Karaites by missionaries even though they are not Karaites. Seraya Shapshal is responsible for trying to fuse the Subbotnik Christians

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link is probably to closest to being in full compliance. I have kept that link as well as the organization links even though the organization links fail EL guidelines. There is an exception that could have applied to the organization links which would have made them pass the guidelines (ie, being an

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It has been suggested by X, Y, and Z that the Karaims of Eastern Europe (Crimea, Lithuania, Russia, etc.) may have originated with Karaite Jewish migrants in the Xth century. However, Karaims were not included under anti-Jewish legislation while they lived under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a

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It seems there is enough material to fill out a decent section. What prompted me to think about this was the use of the title Ḥaḵam through the article, but (as far as I have noticed) no explanation (nor wikilink) for the lay reader. Placement of the section as early as possible in the article would

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On a more global level, there is the Moˁeṣet HaḤaḵamîm ("Council of Sages"), World Karaite Movement, and Karaite Jewish University which have an influence on the global Karaite community. The last of which (KJU), may be the only real inroute for non-Jews to officially convert to KJ outside of Israel

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Even if the Torah said what you say it is saying (which I, for one, do not think it says for a moment), it would be just a "primary document" in this case. A statement of opinion like the one you are trying to add would need a secondary, reliable, preferably academic source stating it, or verifying

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While reading this article I noticed that note b, reading "This oral law employs the methods of remez (implication or clue), drash (interpretation, exegesis), and sod (deep, hidden meaning, identified with the Qabbalah)." links to the Hermetic Qabbalah page. Given that this note is in reference to

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in order to be considered "clean" Jews? All these would be interesting facts for a footnote, maybe, in a paragraph about historical periods in which the two 'denominations' may have had friendly and close relations with each other, as opposed to other historical periods when the relations got to be

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A non-WP comment (although, could be WP-related indirectly) to Melech b.Y, if you are reading this, I would suggest that the WAK buy a domain name — using a Google Sites address does not help the WAK in looking "official" on the web (domains are only 10 $ /year from GoDaddy, I would even be willing

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Both of these sections were already template tagged as violating WP guidelines concerning the See Also and External Links sections. The External Links section was particularly bad as it contained many blogs, minor sites in non-English, dead websites, websites not even related to the topic, etc. The

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Shalom Davidbena. Thank you for your answers and for all the improvements you have done so far to the main article since. Welcome to the editing of the Karaite Judaism area on WP. Thank you for the improvements you've added to the Jacob Qirquisani article also. As for the sub-section here, I think

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what to believe and who is a member (such as the Catholic Church, The Latter-Day Saints church, or the Church of Scientology), Karaite Judaism does not have an "Official Site". The organization EL are the next best thing, but that is not a loophole in the WP guidelines (so, basically, I'm ignoring

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official website of the topic), however, this exception is only applicable if it is the official website of the topic mentioned (ie, the website of the one-and-only governing body of the topic, or the person who is the topic). Since Karaite Judaism is not a cult, and does not have an official body

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You are a boldface liar. You are changing stable (not good by any means, but definitely stable and a very good basis for true historical inquiry) content and replacing it with lies and forgeries, without citing any reliable sources. The lies and forgeries that you have so far fed the English WP in

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Thus it seems to me that the Russian and Crimean and Lithuanian sections of the article need to be reduced significantly to reflect the historical facts rather than a mixture of Missionary POV pushing and prejudicial fantasy. It seems it would be sufficient to have a section saying something like:

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It seems to me that certain users are attempting to evangelise by regurgitating an oft-repeated mistranslation of the Russian word Evrei as Jews (Iudei) rather than Hebrews. Using this mantle, these missionaries are able to insert passages into articles like this one to convince the Karaite Jewish

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think all Karaites are Khazar Karaims isn't it? Why do you want to keep the distinction blurred? So that you can claim to be a Karaite Jew while being uncircumcised and believing in Jesus and Muhammad at the same time? Karaims and genuine Karaite Jews are very clearly distinct. Read John Kinnamos.

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Here the story is still recorded with all the elements it needs to be judged correctly in an impartial historical perspective. Here you are not going to be allowed to continue this campaign of historical falsifications, lies, and forgeries. You have established somewhere else, for the time being,

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I would like to suggest the addition of a section explaining the leadership aspect within KJ. Many people who have heard of KJ, but don't know much about it, assume that KJ has rabbis like Rabbinic Judaism. However, in KJ, a ḥaḵam fills some of the role in KJ that rabbis fill in RJ (although, how

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The UKJ website would also be frowned upon by the guidelines because it is primarily (overwhelmingly) in Hebrew. I have added the Hebrew link icon, as guided by the WP guidelines, and changed the link destination to point to the one main page that is in English on the website (it is basically an

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So basically what you are saying User:Неполканов is that according to all published sources posted here in this discussion as a result of a a trend which started among Lithuanian Karaims, the religion of the Crimean Karaims evolved in at least one significantly different way away from all other

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Crimean Karaies (Karaylar or Qaraylar) are not homogenious .They have several views about their identity.Some of them see themselves as Turkic tribe that beleive to Karaimism(defining it as separate from Judaism religion). Lithuanian Karaim in XX century also added one Cristian pray to their

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Some 30–50,000 are thought to reside in the 21st century in Israel, with smaller communities in Turkey, Europe and the United States.(Kershner 2013) Another estimate holds that, of the 50,000 world-wide, more than 40,000 descend from those who made aliyah from Egypt and Iraq to Israel.(Freeman

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Our job here, as editors, is to expand knowledge. We add to articles wherever the addition can assist others in better understanding any given subject. This is my first edit on the Karaites, although there is much more to say about them. Why do you call a simple citation or quote taken from a

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Reexamine his claim that Karaites were a significant part of the Jewish population. What numbers does he give? Where did he get them? I think examination will show his source, if any, is as tendentious and self-aggrandizing as the claim without numbers. The very existence of Prophets shows

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It does not seem to me that there is a need to go into any more detail than that. Knowledge should not be used as a podium to evangelise Jews by spreading misinformation from non-peer reviewed sources. Any thoughts from users other than those involved in promoting the confusion?

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Not only are such small populations not really noteworthy of mention in an encyclopedia, the fact that such specific and small numbers are mentioned leaves the article open for having to be constantly monitored, fact-checked, and edited as individuals move, die, convert, etc.

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Not Karaite prophet.Karaite Judaism adherents recofgnised him as One God prophet of Buddists,(See 10 principles above) I suggest you to keep your sarkasm till yout learning good the subject before you non-consensual edits i the filed that you are not familoiar too much.

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Thank you for providing such an interesting and succinct background in this section but what are the reliable sources for this? I have found that the Karaite Jews in Crimea are in close association with the Moetzet Hakhamim of Universal Karaite Judaism under Moshe Firrouz.

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Your idea sounds OK to me, al-Shimoni. If you want to write it, I would say go ahead. I can try to help revise it after it is added. If we just link the first occurrence of Hakham in the article as it is, the section would not have to be too long, it seems to me? Regards,

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quite hostile. No more than that. But to create a whole historical sub-section between the "Golden Age" (supposedly ending around 1100 CE) and the 19th century in the Russian Empire, which is the subject of the next historical sub-section, based on this single rabbinic

1828:"Not all European Karaites accepted the Szapszalian doctrines. Some Hakhamim and a small part of the general Karaite population still preserved their Jewish heritage, but most dared not oppose Szapszal openly due to his official standing vis-à-vis the Soviet government" 1539:

attack there Mr Missionary. Tell me which of the requests for citation which you are trying to remove is a forgery of lies? How is my removal of dead links from your self-published website (which you are trying to re-insert) a campaign of historical falsifications?

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Let's see. You created a whole new sub-section in the History section called "Karaites in Egypt in the 13th Century" based on a single rabbinic (mind you, this is an article about Karaites, and you are using a source written by an opponent of the 'denomination')

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interpretation of Torah, and the article itself shows that Karaites _interpret_ Torah instead of living by its literal meaning. What's more, "literal meaning" is the same false claim as "literal translation". Jacobs has to be very naive not to understand that.

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you provided some answers to my questions and you added a source about Karaites in Egypt, which is good. The sub-section is still not quite a full sub-section about Karaism in Egypt, but it is OK for the time being. Shana Tova to you too, thank you, Shalom.

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A Hirvonen - Law and Critique, 2001 - Springer "Thus, those commandments (mitzvot) that come directly from the Torah (de'oraita) and are biblical, are a superior authority to those rabbinic ones which do not come from it (de'rabbanan). The de'oraita ...

1743:"...in the view of Karaites, many traditions and customs are kept that are in contradiction with those expressed in the Torah," in reference to the Talmud and the writings of the Rabbis. No citation or example is given. An example would be helpful. -- 3031:

What is your source for such a statement? If you have any historiographical reliable sources that could support such a statement, please bring them forward. I would be very interested in seeing these sources and what they say. But then you continue:

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prayerbook written by the leader of the Crimean community in Yevpatoria) Is only used by the Lithuanian Karaim. But obviously you are wrong about that. But maybe you have a precise source to back up your claim that it was "introduced in the 1930s?"

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Any idea whether or not these figures include the Karaite Jews of Crimea? And is there any idea anywhere on the precise population and location of those "Karaylar-Karaites" (as Nehemiah Gordon termed them) in Eastern Europe who deny Jewish origins?

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Anyone who uses a prayer of Jesus is obviously his follower. Isn't that fairly obvious to everyone? Because of that, the so-called Russian "Karaites" who use the prayer of Jesus can not be considered Jews. These "Subbotniks" are not circumcised

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it. But, of course, such a source does not exist, so you wouldn't be able to produce it. I am giving you a chance to produce a source for your statement here, before it is removed once again as a simple, unsourced personal opinion. Thank you,

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revolves around a Karaite woman whose husband thought she was legally divorced by him, by virtue of her signing a waiver that she forfeits the monies her husband vowed to give her after dissolving their marriage. Maimonides, in his

2973:), not historiographical source, is to stay, I would recommend you look at the following reliable historiographical source, to see if it mentions anything about the Ramba"m's relationship to the Karaites, according to the Radba"z: 1994:

You distort what written as usual. They called themselves Qarailar or Karailar(it is Karaim translation from Hebrew to Turkic),There is no such tribe Qarailar,Part of them look themselves as adherents of Turkic Tribes of Khazaria.

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which give a wider picture to their roles. At this point, it might be a good place to mention the most significant differences between a rabbinic and a karaite bêt kĕnesset (lack of benches/chairs, who's in charge, et cætera).

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in Eastern Europe and there is no need to mention here in this article anything about the Karaites of Eastern Europe after him who basically became indistinguishable from Subbotniks as a result of Seraya Shapshal's influence.

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Certainly there is a clear difference between these legitimate Karaite Jews (Karaims or Ha-Yehudim Ha-Qara'im) and the ones referenced by Nehemiah Gordon (Karaylar or Qaraylar?) who certainly seem to be much more Christian. ]

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that is executed in each is a little different, which could be explained). Also, the role of the ḥazzan could also be elaborated. Both of these can be explained without too much detail as there are dedicated articles for both

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I've been concerned recently that there appears to be an attempt in other parts of wikipedia to blur the distinction between clear Karaite Jews and certain other so-called "Karaites" in Eastern Europe who appear to be more

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position which Catherine the Great also adopted towards them after they were incorporated into her Empire. Whatever the truth about their origin may be, the majority of East European Karaims themselves regard themselves as

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We will see who exactly is a bold-faced liar. Knowledge is not a place to post Unsourced Unreferenced POV Original Research to be as you put it "a very good basis for true historical inquiry". You continue to build your

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Karaites in the Russian Empire: "The leaders, hearing that, devised a ruse by which they could be freed of the oppressive laws" The word 'ruse' is not neutral, and does not appear in the linked Jewish Encyclopedia

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violate bias guidelines for external links (ie, the repeated strongly-worded monologues against UKJ, WKM, and KJU; although, this is an subjective assessment). Also, apologies for cutting your KI site's external

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The Life and Times of Rabbi David ibn Abi Zimra: A Social, Economic and Cultural Study of Jewish Life in the Ottoman Empire in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries as Reflected in the Responsa of the RDB"Z

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google translate at least seems to indicate that the Yevpatoria community in Crimea are just a localized branch of Karaite Jews struggling to restore themselves following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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would be more correct? Please disregard if I'm incorrect. I do not know very much about the subject, which is why I was reading this article (to learn) and this note stood out to me as a possible error.

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Kaz, For what it's worth, it looks like the website at karaism.org is, thankfully, no more. Someone seems to have snatched it from the previous owner and put something more appropriate in its place. —

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English homepage for the site, although the rest of the site is in Hebrew). However, if the UKJ website changes its content management system, that link may become a 404, and will need to be updated.

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What date was this "one day"? How is this date ascertained? And all this weird story, not more than a mere anecdote, really, in historical terms, to close with the following quote about the Nagid:

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Even practicing Jews of the so-called Karaite sect were allowed to serve in the Waffen SS after Himmler had been persuaded by a Jewish rabbi that the Karaites were racially Turkish and not Semitic.

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While citations have been given, for the number of adherents and their locations, I'm not sure that 2 people (or really anything under ~500) counts as a "significant population". In my view, it's

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In case of contradiction, the written law takes precedence over the oral law. See, for example, Eduyot 4:11; also, secondary sources: , . Anecdotally, I've heard a Chasid saying that mitzvot

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rather than Karaites. The religion of the East European Karaims is syncretic in character incorporating some ideas from both Rabbinical and Karaite Judaism, as well as Christian, Islamic and

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If nobody has a problem with it I want to change the wording at the end of the 1st section to say that today "estimates are between 25 thousand to as many as 50 thousand" with the sources?--

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be helpful (the history section, Russian subsection uses the term "ḥaḵam"), but may not be best placed before the history section (maybe immediately after, just before the beliefs section).

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strict compliance with the guidelines, here). Most of the links that were removed fall into what WP considers the "personal website" category, although they also violated other criteria.

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I think that would depend on whether or not there is a credible reason to believe that the source is wrong. Do you have a source that is as good or better that gives a different number?

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Regarding your question about the Eupatorian book. You miss the point again due to bad knowledge of the sources language.In the Eupatorian book you mentioned you missed the note

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Thanks Toddy1. Deák's book is an interesting study of the forces leading various WWII ethnic/national/religious groups either to collaborate or resist - or, sometimes, both.

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Issue of EL has come up again in recent edits. I have reduced the ELs down, again, to make them further in compliance with Knowledge guidelines on External Links.

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The article mentions that there are about 50 thousand karaites around today but only gives one source. Is this enough for such an important bit of information?

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who ruled that whenever a Karaite returns to Judaism, there is no need for him to undergo a conversion, but we simply receive him (see Responsa of Maimonides,

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goes to the Hermetic type. I just changed the spelling to "Kabbalah" and now the link links correctly to the main Kabbalah page, as it should. Thank you,

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The Russian government in the Nineteenth Century in a series of steps ended up categorising the Crimean and Eastern European Karaites as non-Jews. (See

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The section Karaites today" starts with about 100 families in Istanbul and later says "there are about 80 Karaites living in Istanbul". --

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Please look at 10 principes of Karaite Judaism : one of them Got sent prophits other than Moshe but their strength is less than Moshe's.

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to host the WAK's site on my servers if Google doesn't provide DNS/domain-pointing to their Sites customers pages). Also, the WAK site

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from blurring this distinction. I think this section if cleaned up properly might help undermine the efforts of such POV warriors.

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then it seems that someone with some authority says that there are only around 7 thousand. Also if you look at their own website

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Yes,They do it mainly to distunguish themselves from Rabanites and to fawn the authorites. They have big history of such fawns.

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Karaim of Lithuania define themselve as Crimean Karaites (see the article again please) ,Actually there are three dialects of

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states: "follow the Bible to the exclusion of rabbinical traditions and laws." This 'BIble' - referring to exclusively the

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I used the spelling Qarailar because when I was doing my background research on you I saw you had used it here by the way

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It is not required to quote exactly from sources. It is quite OK to paraphrase, which is what the sentence above does.

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May I just add that the 16:04, 2 October 2012 edit is my edit, I just forgot to log in. 16:07, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

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I would like to thank Неполканов for his recent attempts to add some sort of context to this controversial section.

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What does this mean? That they did not need to be converted because they were already "orthodox Jews" according to

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Anyway, the way you define "Karaimism" makes it look like a completely different religion from Karaite Judaism.

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not Avraham Firkovich who is first mentioned descent from the 10 tribes. Is it time to revise this section?

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you can see that they say they have 25 thousand in Israel and only another 5 thousand in other countries.--

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http://www.myjewishlearning.com/history/Ancient_and_Medieval_History/632-1650/Islamic_World/Karaites.shtml

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Karaites in North-Eastern Europe: The Karaite Community of Troki between the Two World Wars by M, Kizilov

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It's the entire TaNaKh. Lasker's Karaism and Yosef' Yaron's Introduction to Karaite Judaism cover this.

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