* This article only considers the mainstream Jewish views, in contrast to Karaite Judaism.

The addition of the leap month ( Adar II ) is determined by observing in Israel the ripening of barley at a specific stage ( defined by Karaite tradition ) ( called aviv ), rather than using the calculated and fixed calendar of Rabbinic Judaism.

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

During the 8th century, the Khazar royalty and much of the aristocracy converted to a form of Judaism .< ref > Abraham Firkovich, a leader of the Karaims in the 19th century, argued that the Khazars converted to Karaimism ( not to be confused with Karaite Judaism ).

In Karaite Judaism, there are varying opinions on chicken.

:* Page on Hag Ha-Sukkot ( Holiday of Sukkot ) from Karaite Korner ( Karaite Judaism )

As such, Karaite Jews are less an ethnic division, than they are members of a particular branch of Judaism.

Karaite Judaism recognizes the Tanakh as the single religious authority of the Jewish people.

Karaite Jews rely on the use of sound reasoning and the application of linguistic tools to determine the correct meaning of the Tanakh ; while Rabbinical Judaism looks toward the Oral law codified in the Talmud, to provide the Jewish community with an accurate understanding of the Hebrew Scriptures.

The differences between Karaite and Rabbinic Judaism go back more than a thousand years.

Karaite Judaism may have its origins in the Sadducees of the same era.

There are also approximately 50, 000 adherents of Karaite Judaism, most of whom live in Israel, but exact numbers are not known, as most Karaites have not participated in any religious censuses.

Karaite Judaism does not recognize the Oral Law as a divine authority, maintaining that the Written Torah, and the subsequent prophets which God sent to Israel, whose writings are recorded in the Tanakh, are the only suitable sources for deriving halakha, which Karaite Judaism maintains, must not deviate from the plain meaning of the Hebrew Bible.

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.

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Karaite Jews and Samaritans use different versions of the Jewish calendar, which are often out of sync with the modern Jewish calendar by one or two days.

The sole exception is the historic sacrificial lamb, which is never part of the modern Jewish holiday but is still a principal feature of Falashah, Karaite and Samaritan observance.

** Da ' ud Abu al-Fadl, Karaite Jewish physician in Egypt ( born 1161 )

Karaite Jews are widely regarded as being halachically Jewish by the Orthodox Rabbinate.

Karaite Jews also maintain that Rabbinic Jews are not observing Jewish holy days on their correct date, because the dates are fixed according to the pre-calculated Hillel II calendar, instead of beginning each month with the sighting of the New Moon from the horizon of Israel, and starting the year during the month when the barley reaches the stage of Aviv in the land of Israel.

According to Karaite halakha, however, the Lemba are ethnically Jewish per Patrilinear descent.

Leslie is the home of the Qumran Bet Community, one of only a few Karaite Jewish communities outside Israel.

Further discussion and study resulted in the brief adoption of a new date — April 18, 1844, one based on the Karaite Jewish calendar ( as opposed to the Rabbinic calendar ).

The Jewish Encyclopedia cites a 12th-century Karaite document as the earliest Jewish literary source to mention the symbol.

This book is of Karaite, and not of Rabbinic Jewish origin, and it does not describe the shape of the sign in any way.

Further discussion and study resulted in the brief adoption of a new date — April 18, 1844 — one based on the Karaite Jewish calendar ( as opposed to the Rabbinic calendar ).

" March 21, 1844, passed without incident, and further discussion and study resulted in the brief adoption of a new date ( April 18, 1844 ) based on the Karaite Jewish calendar ( as opposed to the Rabbinic calendar ).

Karaite Jews are the only Jewish movement that continues the observance of the laws of ritual purity as they are written in the Torah.

In the 10th century, leaders of the Karaite Jewish community, mostly living under Persian rule, urged their followers to settle in Eretz Yisrael.

The halakhic authority Maimonides endorsed the ben Asher as superior, although the Egyptian Jewish scholar, Saadya Gaon al-Fayyumi, had preferred the ben Naphtali system, possibly because ben Asher was probably a Karaite.

Of all the major Second Temple sects, only the Pharisees remained ( but see Karaite Judaism ).

After the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, Pharisaic beliefs became the liturgical and ritualistic basis for Rabbinic Judaism, which ultimately produced the normative traditional Judaism which is the basis for all contemporary forms of Judaism except for Karaite Judaism.

A Karaite Kenesa, and a Polish Gymnasium, existed in Panevėžys until the Second World War ( the Polish version of the name of the city was Poniewież ).

According to Rabbi Avraham ben David, in his Sefer HaQabbalah, the Karaite movement crystallized in Baghdad in the Gaonic period ( circa 7th – 9th centuries CE ), under the Abbasid Caliphate in what is present-day Iraq.

No copies of this text are extant today, except for quotes in the polemics of Rabbinic and Karaite Jewish scholars of that time period.

The non-literary materials, which include court documents, legal writings, and the correspondence of the local Jewish community ( such the Letter of the Karaite elders of Ascalon ), are somewhat smaller, but still impressive: Goitein estimated their size at " about 10, 000 items of some length, of which 7, 000 are self-contained units large enough to be regarded as documents of historical value.

* The explicit statements found in books of grammar near the 10th and 11th Centuries C. E., such as: The Sefer haQoloth of Moshe ben Asher ( published by N. Allony ), Diqduqé hata ' amim of Aaron ben Moses ben Asher ; the anonymous works entitled Horayath haQoré ( G. Khan and Ilan Eldar attribute it to the Karaite Abu Alfaraj Harun ), the Treatise on the Schwa ( published by Kurt Levy from a Genizah fragment in 1936 ), and Ma ' amar haschewa ( published from Genizah material by Allony ); the works of medieval Sephardi grammarians, such as Abraham Ibn Ezra, Judah ben David Hayyuj.

Schorsch and other scholars, such as David M. Goldenberg, point out Abrabanel's comments on the Book of Amos as indicating very humanistic sentiments: " responded with unconcealed anger to the comment of a tenth-century Karaite from Jerusalem, Yefet b. Ali, on the issue of Black.

Judging from the quotations made by later Karaite writers, such as Jacob al-Qirqisani, Yefet ben Ali, and Hadassi, Benjamin betrayed the influence of Philonic ideas, while he adopted the Motazilite theories on the divine attributes, free-will, and other questions of a like character expounded before by Anan.

Karaites think that such an understanding fits perfectly into the context of both Deuteronomy 23 and Zechariah 9, and several Medieval Rabbinical Jewish sages felt it necessary to debate this topic with Medieval Karaite Jewish sages.

Quranism is similar to movements in other religions such as Karaite Judaism and the Sola scriptura.