The Karaites
If you do not know who the Karaites are, then you probably do not understand what’s wrong with Judaism and why Jesus disagreed with the Pharisees (hint: it was not because Jesus "did away with the Law").
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The Karaites are Jews who do not accept the authority of the Rabbis or their "Oral Torah" (which is now written down in the Talmud and other writings). Instead they rely on interpretating the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament themselves for knowing God's will. They also differ notably in the calendar they follow for the holy days, opting for the Biblical Calendar according to the aviv barley.
Jesus himself was a Karaite, or Hebrew Scripturist (as the word literally means in Hebrew), since he also refused to follow the invented commandments of the Pharisaic Rabbis of his day. Nehemia Gordon covers this topic well in his first book.
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