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

[Zev Sero]

On 25/07/2011 1:16 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> 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.

I've never heard that *we* told this to the Germans.  AFAIK it was the
Karaim themselves who said this, and that in any case this understanding
had been long established by then.


> 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.

Presumably, though, he is talking about the Egyptian Karaim, not the
Crimean ones.  AFAIK there is no reason to suppose the Crimean Karaim
are Jewish.

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