Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of a Jewish sect which adheres to Scripture as contrasted with oral tradition, and consequently denies the binding authority of the Talmud.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eccl. Hist.) A sect of Jews who adhere closely to the letter of the Scriptures, rejecting the oral law, and allowing the Talmud no binding authority; -- opposed to the
Rabbinists .
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- noun An adherent of
Karaism .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's the reason why the once great Karaite and Sadducee communities are irrelevant or non-existent, respectively.
Rabbi Adam Jacobs: The Jewish American Gut-Check Rabbi Adam Jacobs 2011
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It's the reason why the once great Karaite and Sadducee communities are irrelevant or non-existent, respectively.
Rabbi Adam Jacobs: The Jewish American Gut-Check Rabbi Adam Jacobs 2011
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I hope Will Smith sees the error of his ways and decides to make The Feral Karaite Kid.
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I hope Will Smith sees the error of his ways and decides to make The Feral Karaite Kid.
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The final polemic is found in Maimonides, who objects to Karaite practices which had proliferated among the Jews, i.e. bathing in drawn water, laxity in accounting of the seven clean days and, even worse, sprinkling instead of immersion.
Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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In the following century the wife of the Karaite leader Abu l-Taras, from the city of Toledo, also gained a reputation as an educated woman.
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Bóid also compares the Rabbinic and Karaite sources on the same matters.
Samaritan Sect. 2009
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While contemplating the possibility that the Baraita is a Karaite forgery intended to attack rabbinic Judaism, Horowitz finally opted for a rabbinic origin, and concluded that it was composed around the fourth century, in Palestine.
Baraita de-Niddah. 2009
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It is likely, however, that the Karaite practice was the main influencing factor.
Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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Cohen speculates that this practice was widespread in Greece a couple of generations before R. Hillel under Karaite influence and that his comments on Sifra were the result of an unsuccessful campaign to change the practice or a desire that they sin in ignorance rather than intentionally.
Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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