[Avodah] can we marry them????? (karaites)

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 02:44:39PM -0700, Harvey Benton wrote:
: are the karaites considered jewish??
: i recently was told that R. Moshe
: only considered them jewish le'gabei
: saving them from the nazis

The Karaites of Crimea were saved in part because we alleged they were
NOT Jewish. But this was sheqer told in order to save lives.

The problems in yuchsin are (1) the definition of mamzeirus is TSBP,
and (2) they believe that Jewishness passes patrilineally.

ROY (Yabia Omer 8:12) says that intermarriage with Karaites has the happy
effect of bringing some of them back into the fold. He considers them Jews
lekhol davar.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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