* Kizilov, Mikhail, Karaites through the Travelers ' Eyes: Ethnic History, Traditional Culture and Everyday Life of the Crimean Karaites According to Descriptions of the Travelers ( New York, al-Qirqisani, 2003 ).

Karaites through the Travelers ’ Eyes.

Ethnic History, Traditional Culture and Everyday Life of the Crimean Karaites According to Descriptions of the Travelers.

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* Crimean Karaites, an ethnic group with possible Cuman origins

* Crimean Karaites

Substantial non-Muslim minorities, Greeks, Armenians, Crimean Goths, Adyghe ( Circassians ), Venetians, Genoese, Crimean Karaites and Qırımçaq Jews, lived principally in the cities, mostly in separate districts or suburbs.

Communities of their descendants, Lipka Tatars and Crimean Karaites ( Karaims ), survive to this day.

They have historically lived in close proximity to the Crimean Karaites.

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In the Crimea, Crimean Karaites did not wear payot, and the Crimean Tatars consequently referred to them as zulufsız çufutlar, meaning Jews without payot, to distinguish them from the Krymchaks, referred to as zuluflı çufutlar, meaning Jews with payot.

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The name " Crimean Karaites " or " Krymkaraylar " pertains only to several hundred members of the clerical families currently living in the Crimea and is a misnomer in reference to all other branches of the Karaims and Karaylar who have long been established in other parts of Europe, Crimea being only one such location.

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* Crimean Karaites

Grigulevich was born in Trakai, Lithuania, to a family of Crimean Karaites.

According to some Christians and Karaites, the tradition in ancient Israel was that 1 Nisan would not start until the barley is ripe, being the test for the onset of spring.

" According to this school of thought, the Massorah, with its beginnings of grammatical and biblical exegesis, belongs to the Karaites ; the Rabbanites were merely imitators.

Karaites use the lunar month and the solar year, but the Karaite calendar differs from the Rabbinic calendar in a number of ways.

For Karaites, the beginning of each month, the Rosh Chodesh, can be calculated, but is confirmed by the observation in Israel of the first sightings of the new moon.

Occasionally this results in Karaites being one month ahead of other Jews using the calculated Rabbinic calendar.

The " lost " month would be " picked up " in the next cycle when Karaites would observe a leap month while other Jews would not.

This assertion was historically challenged by the Karaites, a movement that flourished in the medieval period, which retains several thousand followers today and maintains that only the Written Torah was revealed.

While there have been Jewish groups whose beliefs were claimed to be based on the written text of the Torah alone ( e. g., the Sadducees, and the Karaites ), most Jews believed in what they call the oral law.

The Karaites (" Scripturalists ") accept only the Hebrew Bible and what they view as the Peshat (" simple " meaning ); they do not accept non-biblical writings as authoritative.

Some European Karaites do not see themselves as part of the Jewish community at all, although most do.

Karaites exist in small numbers today, mostly living in Israel.

Early Karaites avoided chicken because it was not specifically listed as permitted in the Torah.

Some Jews did not accept the written codification of the oral law at all ; known as Karaites, they comprised a significant portion of the world Jewish population in the 10th and 11th Centuries CE, and remain extant, though they currently number in the thousands.

On the calendars used by Karaites and Samaritans, Abib or Aviv 15 ( as opposed to ' Nisan ') corresponds to April 11 in 2009.

The term Turkic represents a broad ethno-linguistic group of people including existing societies such as the Turkish, Azerbaijani, Chuvashes, Kazakhs, Tatars, Kyrgyz, Turkmens, Uyghurs, Uzbeks, Bashkirs, Qashqai, Gagauzs, Yakuts, Turkic Karaites, Krymchaks, Karakalpaks, Karachays, Balkars, Nogais and as well as past civilizations such as the Göktürks, Kumans, Kipchaks, Avars, Bulgars, Turgeshes, Khazars, Seljuk Turks, Ottoman Turks, Mamluks, Timurids and possibly Huns and the Xiongnu.

For Karaites, followers of a branch of Judaism that accepts the Written Law, but not the Oral Law, Shemini Atzeret is observed as a single day of rest, not associated with the practices of Simkhat Torah, which are a rabbinic innovation.

Historical examples include Samaritans and Karaites.

This includes all Christians, all Children of Israel ( including Jews, Karaites and Samaritans ), and Sabians.

As such, the vast majority of Karaites believe in the resurrection of the dead.

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.

As da Costa himself pointed out, traditional Pharisee and Rabbinic doctrine had been contested in the past by the Sadducees and the Karaites.

Many believe that the ben Asher family were Karaites.

Evidently the regulations preferring male descendants came to be disregarded in some respects, as the Book of Job, which textual scholars date to the fourth century, states in its epilogue that Job's daughters were given equal inheritance rights to his sons, and the Karaites always gave daughters the same rights as sons.

One group that has been particularly at odds with the Pharisees and their successors throughout history is the Karaites.

In concurrence with Gordon regarding Pharisee falsehoods about Karaites is Avrom Aryeh-Zuk Kahana haKohen.