Timeline for Have Karaites been able to muster a minyan?
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| May 1 at 18:33 | comment | added | Aaron | I don't think you should even be putting it in quotes. They don't deny everything in the orap tradition, they deny the authority and all inclusiveness that Rabbinic Jews put on the oral law. They are willing to accept aspects of it on a case by case basis | |
| May 1 at 18:16 | comment | added | Rabbi Kaii | @Harel13 To highlight the word, not invalidate it. The point is that it is ironic that they have traditions but deny that there is an Oral Tradition. I think that is quite a self evident irony, but noted that it's a rather moot point and has a rather down to earth response. | |
| Apr 30 at 6:52 | comment | added | Harel13 | @RabbiKaii Why traditions with quotation marks? The movement rose over a thousand years ago, likely (as I noted in my comments above) out of even older sects. Why would they not have varying traditions, much like Orthodox Jews? | |
| Apr 30 at 6:43 | comment | added | Harel13 | The key point of the Karaites was that they disagreed on what keys should be used to interpret the Torah. Do the keys lie within the Oral Torah or that a made-up concept that gives a select class of saves authority over the rest of the Jews? Perhaps the keys lie elsewhere. | |
| Apr 30 at 6:43 | comment | added | Harel13 | @Moishe modern historians think that Karaism rose out of a mixture of different medieval marginal Jewish sects, so it's quite natural that there are different opinions and traditions. Likewise, what is termed "Rabbinic" Judaism evolved from different schools such as Beit Hillel, Beit Shammai, batei midrash of other sages, etc, and they did not always agree on everything. | |
| Apr 27 at 23:39 | comment | added | Moishe | @RabbiKaii so much for being a karait lol | |
| Apr 27 at 23:21 | comment | added | Rabbi Kaii | @Moishe this is neither here nor there. Not surprisingly, and ironically, the Karaites have internal machlokes and different "traditions" | |
| Apr 27 at 21:09 | comment | added | Moishe | that shows they kept that specific law. Again I still think that they don't practice it properly and therefore the curse doesn't apply. | |
| Apr 26 at 18:45 | comment | added | Aaron | When I was in Jerusalem I was advised by the Karaite Synagogue's caretaker that they didn't have services then because it was during the week but that every now and again they would hold services when the rest of the Karaites come down from Ramla and it would be a few Shabatot in the future. Since my wife was with me they advised me that if my wife was on her period she would need to be prepared to be sitting separate in the services. So I'm not sure I buy your argument they aren't following real Karaitism | |
| Apr 26 at 18:42 | comment | added | Moishe | It could be that these Karaites aren't following real karaitism and therefore the curse doesn't apply to them. Ie. They don't follow everything even if it's in the Torah rather they pick and choose like reform etc. | |
| Apr 26 at 16:30 | history | answered | Aaron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |