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Nov 3, 2026
Hershel SchachterHOST
There are more codes from the Zohar that you give a ring.
Hershel SchachterHOST
The Karaites didn't believe in Kiddush HaKesuv because it's Torah Sheval Peh.
Hershel SchachterHOST
So not only do we go out of our way to use Kiddush HaKesuv, the Jews who follow all the rabbinic Jews, And since I'm using Kiddush HaKesav to show we subscribe to the Torah Shavua Peh, but we use the Torah Shavua Peh on top of the Torah Shavua Peh, and we say Shavuot HaKesav, Dinu HaKesav.
Hershel SchachterHOST
And call it how cool it is, Shavuot HaKesav, Dinu HaKesav, Pig and Egg Dish, and whatever you need it to be.
Shlomo YisraeliHOST
That's how we do Ben Enechem.
Shlomo YisraeliHOST
Now, the Karaites, speaking of having it with the hairline, the Karaites, which did not believe in Torah Shabal Peh, they actually would put their tefillin on their forehead, between the eyes, because it says Ben Enecha.
Shlomo YisraeliHOST
But obviously, we say we have a how we know there has to be .
Shlomo YisraeliHOST
but still has to be between the two eyes.
Hershel SchachterHOST
And one wants to know, how did the Tanoin know that? How do all the Tanoin know that? The Tanayim and the Amorayim have different sources to indicate that Bikroch Nefesh is the Rambam.
Hershel SchachterHOST
in Hilcha Shabbos, starts pairing days with the Din of Dekhu Yehiya Shabbos Eitzel Pekroch Nefesh, that the Karaites, during the lifetime of the Rambam still, they didn't believe in Pekroch Nefesh Decha.
Hershel SchachterHOST
So, in their opinion, the religion of the Jewish people is mean, angry.
Hershel SchachterHOST
They visualize an angry God in heaven.
BlackmanHOST
It is there.
BlackmanHOST
And I think I saw in one of the comments on that because he was battling against the Karaites and trying to strengthen Am Yisrael's hope in the coming of Moshiach.
BlackmanHOST
It was essentially an act of gizuk, by let's put a line in the Kaddish which adds even more to what's already there.
BlackmanHOST
Because really, if you say it especially with a Kirutei, and you're saying that according to his will, we'll bring Mashiach, that's what you're basically saying.
Sheva DerenGUEST
And I started teaching the lower year level.
Sheva DerenGUEST
So it was a bit of like a going back a bit in Jewish history, second temple era, um, destruction of the Besa Mikdash and like how the Jews cope and what Yiddishkeit looks like after the Besa Mikdash is destroyed.
Sheva DerenGUEST
And I just became fascinated with.
Sheva DerenGUEST
how Yiddishkeit evolves and what Yiddishkeit looks like at different times in history.
Sheva DerenGUEST
But, um, I guess I would say hashkacha protest at the end.
Sheva DerenGUEST
If you think about it academically, you'd probably say the opinion that was most popular or had the strongest performance or the most persuasive is the opinion that affected the trajectory of the Jewish nation.
Sheva DerenGUEST
But like, There was a time in the Gaonic era where there were more Karaite Jews than Rabbinic Jews.
Sheva DerenGUEST
And that's fascinating.
Mark WachowskiHOST
Now, we call this the fundamental truth claim of rabbinic Judaism because what distinguishes rabbinic Judaism from all other religions that recognize the divinity of the Hebrew Bible, like Christianity and Islam, what distinguishes rabbinic Judaism is precisely the existence of this oral Torah.
Mark WachowskiHOST
It also distinguishes rabbinic Judaism from Karaism, that sect among the Jews that denied the sanctity of the Torah Sheba Opeh and asserted that the written Torah was the only revelation that Moses received at Sinai.
Mark WachowskiHOST
The Karaites, who originated during the period of the Babylonian Geronim, were especially numerous and powerful in Egypt, where Rambam ultimately settled and where he composed his Mishneh Torah.
Mark WachowskiHOST
In the words of the great Maimonides scholar, Professor Isidore Torsky, in Cairo, on the eve of Maimonides' arrival, the rabbinite community was seriously threatened and severely demoralized.
Matt SchneeweissHOST
The main modern authority, Burton Vysotsky, who produced the critical edition, argued for roughly 860 to 940, so like late Gaonik.
Matt SchneeweissHOST
He reasoned that it uses sources from the mid-9th century and that some of its passages seem to argue against the Karaite Daniel al-Kumisi, who lived around that time.
Matt SchneeweissHOST
He also doubted that the Goanim actually quote it.
Matt SchneeweissHOST
As for where it was compiled, Vysotsky thought Eretz Israel was likely but not proven.
Hershel SchachterHOST
the 19th Perek, the Mila is regarding Makhshiri Mila, which is Derche Shabbos, but the actual Mila B'Zman, or everyone agrees it's Derche Shabbos, and one wants to know, how did the Tanoin know that? How do all the Tanoin know that? The Tanayim and the Amorayim have different sources to indicate that Bikroch Nefesh is the Rambam.
Hershel SchachterHOST
in Hilcha Shabbos, starts Perek Deis, that the Karaites, during the lifetime of the Rambam still, they didn't believe in So in their opinion, the religion of the Jewish people is mean, angry.
Hershel SchachterHOST
They visualize an angry God in heaven.
Hershel SchachterHOST
He wants us all to drop dead.
Matt SchneeweissHOST
Yeah, the Gemara's slightly different, I guess, because Davka didn't use the Gemara, because in the Gemara, they're talking to each other, and it's also Chachamim.
Matt SchneeweissHOST
Whereas here, it's like, Ibn Ezra will make fun of the Karaites' names in the commentary.
Matt SchneeweissHOST
I don't know if they saw his commentary, you know? Yeah.
Matt SchneeweissHOST
And it's like, you're really stooping to the level of mockery? Yes, I'm Ibn Ezra.
Nehemia GordonHOST
Okay.
Nehemia GordonHOST
So this is a really problematic verse for the rabbis, 2 Kings 4.23. And I'll admit for many Karaites as well.
Nehemia GordonHOST
And why is it such a problem? Can you tell me why it's a problem? Well, possibly it might be the fact that
Keith JohnsonHOST
she's traveling.
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