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What (who) is Karaite - definition
Karaite
['k?:r???t]
¦ noun a member of a Jewish sect which rejects rabbinical interpretation in favour of a literal interpretation of the scriptures.
Origin
C18: from Heb. Qara'im 'those who adhere closely to the scriptures' (from qara' 'read') + -ite1.
Karaite
·noun 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.
Karaism
![[[Eupatorian Kenassas]] of [[Crimean Karaites]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/0202-Kenesa Yevpatoriya.jpg?width=200 "[[Eupatorian Kenassas]] of [[Crimean Karaites]].")
![Karaite synagogue in [[Ashdod]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karaim sinagog Ashdod.jpg?width=200 "Karaite synagogue in [[Ashdod]]")
![The Karaite [[kenesa]] in the [[Old City (Jerusalem)]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karaite synagogues in Jerusalem061.jpg?width=200 "The Karaite [[kenesa]] in the [[Old City (Jerusalem)]]")
![synagogue]] in [[Trakai]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Trakai Kenesa.JPG?width=200 "synagogue]] in [[Trakai]].")
![Karaites]] and the Jews.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Циркуляр Столыпина о караимах.jpg?width=200 "Karaites]] and the Jews.")
JEWISH RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT CHARACTERIZED BY THE RECOGNITION OF THE WRITTEN TORAH ALONE AS ITS SUPREME AUTHORITY IN JEWISH RELIGIOUS LAW AND THEOLOGY.
Karaism; Karaite judaism; Karaite Jews; Caraism; Karaitic; Karaite Jewish; Jewish Protestantism; Karaite Jew; Jewish Karaites; Karaite Karaism; Karaite (Jewish sect); Karaimism; Bene Mikra; Karaite tzitzit; Qaraism; Crimean Karaite Judaism; Qara'im; Qārāʾîm; Qaraite Judaism
·noun Doctrines of the Karaites.
Examples of use of Karaite
1. About 100 years after it was written, it was purchased by the Karaite community and transfered to the Karaite synagogue in Jerusalem.
2. Q÷ We are a family with 12 children, with karaite beliefs.
3. Below, in Gai Ben Hinnom, one can see the small Orthodox monastery Hakeldama (Field of Blood, which according to Christian tradition was purchased with the money of Judas Iscariot). West of it lie the remains of an ancient Karaite cemetery.
4. Although archeological evidence is rare, textual sources in Arabic and Hebrew collected by the Karaite Yaphet ben Heli de Basra in the 10th century cite that the "Land of the East" had Jewish inhabitants.
5. For centuries, Karaite and Rabbinic Jews lived side by side in Cairo. (Karaites reject the Talmud as a source of religious law, relying on the Bible only.) At the end of the 12th century, Cairo was the most important Jewish center in the world, largely due to Moses Maimonides (the Rambam). The second great contribution of Cairene Jewry was the Cairo Geniza, a collection of hundreds of thousands of documents relating to the everyday life of the community.