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  Karaite Mosaitic Holidays 10/12/2024 08 08 27 (UTC)
   
 
The meaning of holiday [Hagh] is pilgrimage to Yerushalayim from the villages and the cities and the tent camps surrounding Yerushalayim, in fulfillment of the biblical ordinances... This is as it is written, "all your males shall appear before YHWH your God" (Devarim 16.16).

The word holiday also refers to the circumambulation of the sanctuary. This is derived from the following: "They went around in circles [yahoggu] and staggered like a drunken man" (Tehilim 107.27), "he walks in the circuit of heaven" (Iyov 22.14), and "He sits above the circuit of the earth" (Yishiyahu 40.22). This meaning of holiday agrees with the expression, "I will walk around your altar, YHWH" (Tehilim 26.6). Pilgrimage includes the offering of sacrifices.

Hol HaMo‘ed - Intermediate Days of a Holiday

 


We say that these days, also, are designated as holidays and holy convocations, since they come under the statement, "These are the holidays of YHWH, holy convocations" (Wayyiqra’ 23:4), which forms the preamble to all the holidays. They are also comprised in the statement, "These are the holidays of YHWH which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations" (Wayyiqra’ 23:37).

 

We are forbidden on these days to engage in gainful occupations, commerce, and trades, except on the extend that we are compelled to, in order to provide for our livelihood, and to prevent danger to life. This applies, for example, to the irrigation of fields and gardens. Likewise, we may prepare medications and do bloodletting and other things required in the treatment of diseases. We may also bury the dead and do all things necessary for human safety. We may press fruit which would otherwise dry out, gather fruits which might spoil and sell and receive payment for them. We may store our crops in storehouses and remove flax from the vats in which it is soaking when there is danger of its rotting. We may remove wool from the dyeing vats before the becomes damaged. In general we may do everything that is urgent and cannot be neglected when failure to do so may cause harm. We may not engage in other worldly endeavors, this includes contracting or consummating a marriage, unless it be the case of remarrying a divorced wife.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  Declaration of Faith
1. The uniqueness and oneness of YHWH as God and Creator.

2. The truth of the Torah given to Moses.

3. The perfect nature of the Torah which requires no additions or supplement (i.e. the Rabbanite Oral Law is extraneous).

4. The concept of an ultimate reward for those who keep the Torah.

5. The holiness of the Temple in Jerusalem and its status as a place to turn in prayer.

6. The beginning of months in the Biblical calendar according to the visibility of the Crescent New Moon

7. The beginning of years in the Biblical calendar according to the state of the barley crops (Abib) in the Land of Israel.

8. The truth and prophetic nature of the entire Hebrew Bible.

9. The truth and holiness of the Biblical Holidays and Feasts.

10. The eternal nature of God who rules the universe.

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