Karaite Judaism

They tore from the hands of their companions the objects that they had stolen and, without paying attention to their value, destroyed them on the spot.

The ri- the rioters did not touch the shops of the Karaites nor the houses where they were pres- where there- they were presented portraits of the emperor.

But on the whole-

Let me interrupt right there.

Sure.

Let me interrupt right there.

I've said this before, but I think it's very important that he points out that the Karaites weren't touched.

Um, the Karaites, of course, there's not that many of them.

These are not friends.

And we know that they knew exactly what they were doing because if you were a Karaite or a Samaritan or one of these types of Jews, that they had to be a Talmudist.

Everyone else was unaffected.

It was only the Talmudists that were affected.

Uh, and they were also surprised about how easy it was to penetrate the city and its clergy so, so easily.

Um, so, um, and allegedly, the leader of this, um, Tsadiya, was a, was a Karaite.

I don't know how firm that is, but it really doesn't matter because we're talking about alchemy, we're talking about the Kabbalah.

Um, so 1471, I believe, was his appearance in Novgorod, and it was just before the reconquest in Spain And the mass exodus of Jews from the, from the Pyrenees Mountains.

But their job was to appear as Christian as humanly possible.

Um, and so it looked good, uh, on the outside.

Now, to the extent that the, the Talmud was directly involved, because he, at least the leader was a Karaite, at least he said he was, um, it doesn't matter too much because the Kabbalah is the, uh, is the central, central issue here.

Whether Talmudist or Karaite, the Gnostic mythos, um, is still of, uh, uh, learning the secrets of nature and hence controlling it and hence remaking it, and therefore unlimited power could be theirs.

In other words, you don't just take the Torah literally.

Sadya Gaon had a whole big project of fighting the Karaites who took the Torah literally.

So Sadya Gaon would have been very interested in Philo because Sadya Gaon believed that you don't take the Torah literally, otherwise you end up with Karaites and Karaitism.

Rambam also believed that you don't always take the Torah literally, otherwise you end up with fundamentalism.

And that's why Rambam was able to say certain things, like he didn't believe in angels the way other people understand angels, because now he had permission He interpreted Torah in a non-literal manner through allegory.

But the Mishneh quotes, HaTorah is purely Torah Sheval Peh.

So the Karaites only hold from HaFarah.

They don't believe in HaTorah.

They don't accept anything from Torah Sheval Peh.

but it's not yet the actual Yom Kippur, so we'll have to be modern later, the meaning is three times, so we say three times, because we treat it like HaTorah Snedron, so as long as the first time you said before Yom Kippur, even if the second or third time is around Yom Kippur already, it's not really necessary, It's enough to say it once.

We say it three times for emphasis, because the Tzedukim, the Karaites, don't believe in HaToros and Doron, because it's Toros of HaPeh.

They only follow the Chumash, but it says HaForah, that the father, the husband, we make a Nidri Bita, Nidri Yishma.

But we, the rest of the Jews, the Rabbinic Jews who follow the Toros of HaPeh, we don't do HaForah, because HaForah is only Dvarm Shebino, Nidri Yin and Nefesh.