Mysterious Karaites.
For centuries he lived in Tauris thin people Karaites - History laconic about their life and culture , pretty patted their customs and language . But our contemporaries and travel lovers , are constantly faced with the scattered evidence of Karaite culture.
Who are the Karaites - you ask ?
The Karaites (קָרָאִים, Kara - ` reading `, בְּנֵי מִקְרָא, Bnei Mikra , בַּעֲלֵי מִקְרָא, ba'aley Micro - ' People of the Book ') , which arose in the early 8th century. Baghdad Jewish sect . (Jewish e-library) .Ministers of religion taken out of the Semitic term Karaite the same root word , translating it as reading , calling , or connoisseurs of Scripture. Another explanation of the name of religion comes from the ethnonym punish . The main principle of exercise - an independent study of the Scriptures , not relying on the opinion of others .
Karaites did not have any definite point where they could concentrate their forces and form something like a state , they were all profitable areas , primarily engaged in trade and crafts in different , for example . On Mangup in the beginning. XVII. - Tanners on Emiddio Dortelli d' Ascoli ( prefect of Kaffa in 1634 ).They lived in and between Christians and Muslims , sometimes just them, as apparently concentrated in certain neighborhoods , so it was probably on Mangup (Cape Chufut - ( Hebrew ) - breaker ) or in the suburbs , as it was in Kaffa . Shiltberger (XV cent. ) Said that in the suburbs of Kaffa was 4,000 Jewish homes .
The persecution of the Jews , and all kinds of harassment were relatively common in the medieval Genoese Kaffa , as evidenced by the charter of the Genoese colony in 1449 , ordering the Jews to defend against all kinds of harassment.Jews had to endure a lot and in the Tatar era: emirs, bey and nobleman , capricious and willful , often due to selfish ends oppressed Jews.
All kinds of oppression taught the wisdom and the Karaites did not embitter them against his neighbors .Folklore reflects the attitude of the native land, friendship , work, neighbors, often with humor, unexpected epithets.
• foreign land - the clay , and native land - the gold.
• Giving to please God .
• Let your word corresponds to the amount donated .
• Not give from the heart, a lot - of affluence.
• God willing - pray , but do not bring home - labor .
• Like pearls and sage words lal , only pain will cause the word fool.
• For a lion be a lion with the lamb - the lamb, but do not be a donkey with a donkey.
• Do Khan, I Khan, and no one to give the horses hay .
• eulogizing himself to the heavens fall on earth.
• Rear naked and on her head bunch of cornflowers .
• horse harness and stupid , and clever wind harnessed .
• Your soul - the soul , and my eggplant , or what?
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