Karaite in a sentence

However, despite Rabbinic Judaism deviating from the plain meaning of the Torah, Karaite Jews recognize Rabbinic Jews who have unbroken patrilineal Jewish descent, as Jewish, and eligible to join Karaite Judaism without a conversion.

Because of these two biblical limitations and because most countries outlaw it, polygamy is considered highly impractical, and there are only a few known cases of it among Karaite Jews today.

For Karaite Jews it always falls on a Sunday.

Furthermore, the seasonal drift of the rabbinic calendar is avoided, resulting in the years affected by the drift starting one month earlier in the Karaite calendar.

In the Middle Ages many Karaite Jews outside Israel followed the calculated rabbinic calendar, because it was not possible to retrieve accurate aviv barley data from the land of Israel.

Judah Hadassi incorporated Ishmael's principles into Karaite Judaism in the 12th century.

Karaite Jews and Samaritans also observe the biblical festivals, but not in an identical fashion and not always at exactly the same time.

Karaite Jews interpret it as referring to the month in which barley was ripe.

Karaite Judaism believes that Jewish identity can only be transmitted by patrilineal descent.

Rabbinical and Karaite Jews each hold that the others are Jews, but that the other faith is erroneous.

Similar practices are still used in Islam as well as in the Karaite and Samaritan communities.

Some took a critical-historical view of the written Torah as well, while others appeared to adopt a neo- Karaite "back to the Bible" approach, though often with greater emphasis on the prophetic than on the legal books.

The Karaite and Samaritan Passovers are each one day long, followed by the six-day Festival of Unleavened Bread – for a total of seven days.

The Karaite calendar is identical to the Rabbinic calendar used before the Sanhedrin changed the Rabbinic calendar from the lunar, observation based calendar, to the current mathematically based calendar used in Rabbinic Judaism today.

The most exotic of all the influences is Eastern (Karaite) cuisine, and the dishes kibinai and čeburekai are popular in Lithuania.

They soon developed oral traditions of their own, which differed from the rabbinic traditions, and eventually formed the Karaite sect.

While the title "Reform" was occasionally applied to them, their approach was described as "neo- Karaite " and was utterly opposite to continental developments.