Explore: Divorce (karaite Law)

Tanakh alone as its supreme authority in halakha (religious law) and theology. Karaites believe that all of the divine commandments which were handed

document in Jewish religious law which effectuates a divorce between a Jewish couple. The term is also used to refer to the divorce itself. The get is a 12-line

Israeli Karaite Hakham and Torah scholar (sage). He is the former Chief Ḥakham (spiritual leader) as well as Registrar of Marriage and Divorce of Israel's

dietary laws and regulations concerning menstrual impurity. Even Ha'ezer ("The Rock of the Helpmate"): marriage, divorce and other issues in family law. Choshen

writes her a bill of divorcement, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house." (Deuteronomy 24:1) Therefore, under Karaite law, it is difficult for

accept both matrilineal and patrilineal descent as well as conversion. Karaite Judaism predominantly follows patrilineal descent as well as conversion

Judaism, although today only the small Karaite sect formally opposes the incorporation of any extra-biblical law into their practice. Sadducees rejected

text of the Torah alone (e.g., the Sadducees, and the Karaites), most Jews follow the oral law. These oral traditions were transmitted by the Pharisee

while he considered Karaites Jewish, he also considered them to potentially fall within the category of mamzerut, as their divorces were not conducted

purposes of Israeli law. As of 2006, the Moetzet Hakhamim (Council of Sages) began to accept converts to Karaite Judaism through the Karaite Jewish University