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  2. Hebrew calendar - Wikipedia

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    The current High Priest confirms the results twice a year, and then distributes calendars to the community. [132] The epoch of the Samaritan calendar is year of the entry of the Children of Israel into the Land of Israel with Joshua. The month of Passover is the first month in the Samaritan calendar, but the year number increments in the sixth ...

  3. Shemini Atzeret - Wikipedia

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    Because of that, the 22nd day of the 7th month does not necessarily fall on the same date as 22 Tishrei in the (conventional, Rabbinic) Jewish calendar. [49] In 2015, Shemini Atzeret fell on October 7 for Karaites, two days later than in the conventional Jewish calendar. In 2016, Shemini Atzeret fell on the same day according to both calendars ...

  4. Karaite Judaism - Wikipedia

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    Many modern Karaite Jews have emerged from the Karaite revival of the late 20th century; the World Karaite Movement was founded by Nehemia Gordon and Ḥakham Meir Rekhavi in the early 1990s. Karaite Jewish University (KJU), approved by the Mo‘eṣet HaḤakhamim (the Council of Sages) in Israel, was founded to teach an introductory course on ...

  5. List of Karaite Jews - Wikipedia

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    This list of Karaite Jews consists of notable individuals who are associated with Karaite Judaism. It includes not only those individuals who were explicitly a part ...

  6. Crimean Karaites - Wikipedia

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    The Karaite religion, known in Eastern Europe as Karaism, split from mainstream Rabbinical Judaism in the 19th and 20th centuries. They have lived alongside Krymchaks . [ 14 ] Most Karaites in the region do not consider themselves to be Jews, associating the ethnonym with Rabbinical Jews alone, but rather consider themselves to be descendants ...

  7. Portal:Holidays/Calender/2008 - Wikipedia

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    Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1: 2 Groundhog Day Imbolc: 3: 4: 5 Constitution Day (Mexico) Mardi Gras: 6 Waitangi Day Ash Wednesday: 7 Chinese

  8. Counting of the Omer - Wikipedia

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    Shavuot is the only major Jewish holiday for which no calendar date is specified in the Torah; rather, its date is determined by the omer count. [1] The Counting of the Omer begins on the second day of Passover (the 16th of Nisan) for Rabbinic Jews (Orthodox, Conservative, Reform), and after the weekly Shabbat during Passover for Karaite Jews ...

  9. Jewish schisms - Wikipedia

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    Karaite Judaism is a Jewish denomination characterized by reliance on the Tanakh as the sole source of binding Jewish Law. Karaites rejected the rabbinic tenet that an Oral Torah (oral law) was transmitted to Moses at Mount Sinai along with the written scriptures .