To: rmlew
Rabbinic Jews are Jews. The others aren't. Orthodox Jews would not consider Karaites Jews, since they don't accept the divine nature of the Oral Torah. I'd put Karaites in the same category as Samaritans, who by the way, are not Jews either.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".) 150 posted on
03/27/2005 11:49:10 PM PST by
goldstategop
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To: goldstategop
If the Sadducees/Tsadokim were Jews, why wouldn't Karaites be?
Conservative/Masorti, Liberal/Reform, and Reconstructionist Jews don't seem to care much for the Oral Law either, but they are Jews.
151 posted on
03/27/2005 11:59:22 PM PST by
rmlew
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