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The Kairite Synagogue is the oldest Synagogue In Israel and one of the oldest in the world. Karaite Judaism or Karaism is the original faith of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament). The word "Karaism" derives from the Hebrew Karaim meaning "Followers of Scripture".The true Kairites accept only the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) / Written Torah as the Divine Word of God.
Origin of the Karaite / Biblical Jews
Since the time of Moses there has been a continuous movement of Israelites and Jews who were dedicated to the observance of the original written Torah by its "peshat" or face-value meaning. In Chapter 8 of the Book of Nehemiah, the scribe Ezra and the Levites were able to read the entire Torah to a crowd of Jews and explain how to observe the laws contained in it within one day.
The Pharisee religious movement, which began around 300 BCE argued that the Torah was too difficult to understand and that scholarly sages have to explain it to the common people. Later these sages began to add to, and subtract from, the commandments contained in the written Torah. The historian Josephus, himself a Pharisee, claimed that the Pharisees had made several significant changes to Jewish practice and belief. Deuteronomy 4:2 forbids the addition or subtraction of commandments provided by the Torah (Mosaic Law). For this reason several religious movements, including the Sadducees, refused to accept the "reforms" offered by the Pharisees.
In 70 CE the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the Jewish Temple. Following the destruction of Jerusalem and the Bar Kochva Revolt, Judaism and many of its various fractured religious movements virtually disappear from history. From the middle of the 2nd Century until the 6th Century CE very few records of Jewish history exist. In the 6th Century CE the Jews found themselves a minority in a now Christian Byzantine Empire to the West and increasingly Zoroastrian Sassanid Empire East. In Babylon (modern day Iraq) Jews began to write down a series of books collectively known as the Talmud that followed the Pharisee religious ideology.
By the 8th Century the sages, now called Rabbis, were spreading the Talmud to congregations of Jews throughout the world. They argued that the Talmud represented an "Oral Torah" that had been given to Moses at Sinai and passed down by word of mouth to the Pharisees. This "Oral Torah" is not mentioned in any book of the scriptures and the idea that any tradition could have been passed through so many generations, so many conflicts, and several periods during which Jewish religion was not even being practiced by most Jews, is ridiculous. It may be worthy of note that the Talmud never reached Ethiopia where the Jews continued to practice ancient Biblical Judaism, having no concept of an "oral law."
Jerusalem's Oldest Synagogue
Although the Kairite Jews / Biblical Jews have been persecuted for holding fast to the Tahakh (Hebrew Bible) / Written Torah while rejecting the false teachings of the Talmud and "oral Torah" are still in existence today. They are the minority in Israel today. In ancient Israel the Kairite Jews were the majority.
Much of what you'll read about the Kairite Jews on the internet is disinformation and outright lies spread by false prophets who have sought to turn the Jewish people away from the Tanakh. What would be the motive for creating the Talmud and the oral Torah? Was it too difficult to understand as the Pharisees claimed or was it an attempt to keep the Jewish people from studying the Tanakh therein discovering the lies of their Talmud and false teachings? I believe it was the latter.
An interesting thing I learned after a certain Kairite Website was shut down. The name Hashem was created by the Pharisees. It isn't found in the Holy Scriptures. Not once will you find "the name" - Hashem found in the KJV Holy Bible or the original Tanakh (Hebrew Bible). Here is God's name as given to Moses in Exodus 3:11-16:
11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?
14 And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you.
15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
Note that God told Moses, "This is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations. What is God's Name? I am.
God said, This is My Name. Not this is "the name." Not Hashem nor any translation of the word "Hashem".....Not "the name," Not "thank God," not "Blessed be God." This is not the name God commanded Moses to tell the people. God was very clear about his name that was to be memorial unto all generations.... What is God's Name? I am. God told Moses, This is my name for ever.
God never told Moses you shall say unto the children of Israel, this is "the name" for ever. It simply isn't found in Scripture.
In this, we learn that there were certain Jews who decided to reject the Written Word of God and write their own books which are found in the Talmud and oral Torah. These false teachings were spread amongst the people. These false teachers even created their own name for God which Moses never commanded them to do!
Today as with false teachings / false translations / false prophets who have infiltrated the church, the Kairite Jews have suffered the same. Some sects claiming to be Kairite have permitted the teachings of the Talmud and oral Torah where as the ancient Kairites would have nothing to do with the Talmud or the oral Torah.
To be clear the Kairites are Jews who are still waiting for their Messiah not realizing that Jesus Christ is the Messiah (yet). There are still some Karaites who hold fast to the original Hebrew faith in God according to the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) They have wholeheartedly rejected the later innovations (inventions) of the Talmud, the Rabinnic Oral Law and teachings that promote Kaballah (Baal worship).
As you will learn in the following video, many Jews have had the truth kept from them by their Rabbi. There are Orthodox Jews who after studying the teachings of the Hebrew prophets written in the Tanakh have - and comparing those Holy Scriptures with the Holy Scriptures of the New Testament - have discovered that Jesus Christ is the Jewish Messiah of Israel - Yeshua HaMachiah.
The truth is what sets men free.
It is written:
In his days, Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: And this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Jeremiah 23:6
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