Karaites

Professor Mitwisser is an intellectual fanatic, obsessed with an obscure sect called the Karaites, and quite blind to the miseries and struggles of his family.

The Ones That Got Away « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

Other pieces stuck out too: a simple, if elegant, gold-leafed ketubah from 19th-century India; another from a similar date found in Crimea, and produced by the renegade community known as the Karaites, which split off from the dominant forms of Judaism in the ninth century.

The Jewish Week (BETA) 2010

She explained a little about the "Karaites" who live/lived here and urged us to walk around and visit their area (didn't have a clue what "Karaites" were), paid the entrance fee to the castle and let us loose.

TravelsWithSheila.com 2010

Like all literalists, the Karaites stood against imagination and interpretation, and they vanished out of history’s mainstream.

An Interview With Cynthia Ozick 2010

Karaites in Byzantium: The Formative Years, 970 – 1100.

Karaite Women. 2009

These marriage contracts stipulated the mutual tolerance of those practices in which the Karaites and the Rabbanites differed.

Karaite Women. 2009

The Karaites obeyed these rules with particular care.

Karaite Women. 2009

Those aspects in which the Karaites differed from the Rabbanites (such as the permissibility of marriage and the definition of incest) were dealt with in great detail in special sections in early Karaite codes of law, such as the Sefer Mitzvot of Anan ben David (Baghdad, eighth century), the Kitab al-Anwar wal-Maraqib of Jacob al-Qirqisani (Iraq, 937) and the Sefer Mitzvot of Levi ben Yefet (Palestine, early eleventh century).

Karaite Women. 2009

After a certain length of time, and according to her condition, she must purify herself by immersion in running water (though not in a ritual bath, as Karaites do not practice the institution of mikveh).

Karaite Women. 2009

This does not mean that the Karaites do not observe non-biblical laws and customs; in fact many binding Karaite rules, and notably those concerning women (e.g. the marriage contract, ketubbah) are not mentioned in the Bible, and are clearly identical to the Rabbanite practices recorded in talmudic and gaonic literature.

Karaite Women. 2009