And the jews who gave us the nikkud of the tanakh and the already in use masoretic music notations have been persecuted and ostracized over the centuries by the rabbinic-non-sensical jews!

YHWH, please be patient with the jews.

Aharon ben Mosheh ben Asher was a Jewish scholar from Tiberias, famous as the most authoritative of the Tiberias masoretes, and a member of a family who had been involved in creating and maintaining the Masorah (authoritative text of the Hebrew scripture), for at least five generations. His vocalization of the Bible is still, for all intents and purposes, the text allJews continue to use, and he was the first systematic Hebrew grammarian.

His Sefer Diqduqei HaTe‘amim (Grammar of the Punctuation/Vocalizations) was an original collection of grammatical rules and masoretic information. Grammatical principles were not at that time considered worthy of independent study. The value of this work is that the grammatical rules presented by Ben-Asher reveal the linguistic background of vocalization for the first time. He had a tremendous influence on the world of Biblical grammar and scholarship.

From documents found in the Cairo Geniza, it appears that this most famous masorete (and, possibly, his family for generations) were Karaite. It should not be surprising to discover that many masoretes, so involved in the Masorah, held Karaite beliefs. After all, it was the Karaites who placed such absolute reliance on the Torah text. It would be natural that they would devote their lives to studying every aspect of it.

I already had this conversation with a friend… that the relativism of the many jewish traditions, allied with strictness in noting them, arose hundreds of nonsense situations… well I don’t remember quite much what conversation it was, it just left in me an impression… but speaking about the written word: it’s the only way to frozen a tradition, a language, a music, whatever. Otherwise things keep always changing. Anyway, there are powerful similarities among jewish traditions; so we can say, they all came from the same source. But they’re so different, and so strictly applied, that comparing them all drives anyone crazy. You choose to keep tradition or not, that’s all. Tradition in itself is meaningless. Tradition is a dead body — God is alive. If you start to live with God you will need to ignore tradition, because God is always creating new things. You can never know what God is up to next. God is unpredictable. And I think traditions are quite interesting, like a game we play: you can play many different games inspired in the same theme. So, why be enslaved by it? God is the ultimate authority. Since He is alive, He speaks, otherwise there is no God. 

Traditions are quite interesting, but they’re only traditions. There is no true power on them. If you read the books of the prophets you will see the craziness of the work of God. Is this tradition what Jeremiah had to do? LOL

Why people insist in living nonsense? 

The disagreement arises over the perceived exaltation of the Talmud and the writings of the Rabbis above that of the Torah, so that, in the view of Karaites, many traditions and customs are kept that are in contradiction with those expressed in the Torah. This is seen especially by the fact that the Karaites also have their own traditions that have been passed down from their ancestors and religious authorities. This is known asSevel HaYerushah, which means “the yoke of inheritance.” It is kept primarily by traditional Karaites, and any tradition therein is rejected if it contradicts the simple meaning of the Torah. Additionally, these traditions are not forced upon any Karaite Jew or Convert to Karaite Judaism.

Those newly entered Karaites who do not have such an inheritance or tradition tend to rely heavily upon just the Torah and those practices mentioned in it, and to adapt Biblical practices to their cultural context.

Karaites do not accept the existence of an Oral Law because:

1. The Mishnah quotes many conflicting opinions.
2. The Mishnah does not go on to say in which opinion the truth lies. Rather, the Mishnah sometimes agrees with neither one nor the other, contradicting both.
3. They argue that the truth of the oral law given to Moses could only be in one opinion, not many opinions.
4. They question why the Mishnah does not solely speak in the name of Moses.
5. The Oral Law is not mentioned once in the entire Tanakh.
6. When God told Moses to come up to Mount Sinai to receive the Torah He said, “Come up to me into the mountain, and be there: and I will give you tablets of stone, and a law, and commandments that I have written”; (Ex 24:12). The text states the commands are written, and no mention is made of an Oral Law.
7. The Tanakh reports that the written Torah was both lost and completely forgotten for over 50 years and only rediscovered by the Temple priests (2Ki 22:8; 2Chr 34:15). It is inconceivable that an Oral Law could have been remembered when even the written Law was forgotten.
8. The words of the Mishnah and Talmud are clearly the words of people living in the 2nd–5th centuries, CE, stating “Rabbi Eli‘ezer says this… while Rabbi ‘Aqiva says that…” in contrast to the Torah, which states “YHWH spoke to Moses saying, speak to the Children of Israel that I command them saying…”
9. The Torah states, “You shall not add to the word that I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of YHWH, your God, which I command you.” (Deut 4:2) It is forbidden to add an Oral Law to the Torah, since it is the opinions of rabbis, not commands from God.
10. Joshua 8, 34–8, 35 states:

וְאַחֲרֵי-כֵן, קָרָא אֶת-כָּל-דִּבְרֵי הַתּוֹרָה, הַבְּרָכָה, וְהַקְּלָלָה—כְּכָל-הַכָּתוּב, בְּסֵפֶר הַתּוֹרָה.לֹא-הָיָה דָבָר, מִכֹּל אֲשֶׁר-צִוָּה מֹשֶׁה—אֲשֶׁר לֹא-קָרָא יְהוֹשֻׁעַ, נֶגֶד כָּל-קְהַל יִשְׂרָאֵל וְהַנָּשִׁים וְהַטַּף, וְהַגֵּר, הַהֹלֵךְ בְּקִרְבָּם.

After that, he [Joshua] read all the words of the Torah, the Blessing and the Curse, according to all that is written in the Torah scroll. There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua failed to read in the presence of the entire assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that walked among them.

Since Joshua read from the Torah every word Moses had written, this implies that Moses had not been given an Oral Law, since Joshua could not have read an Oral Law from the written Torah. Secondly, there could not have been additional commandments outside of the written Torah, since all the commandments that existed could be read from the Torah scroll.

In addition to this, Joshua 1:8 states: This book of the law is not to depart out of your mouth, but you are to meditate on it day and night, so that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it

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Eu cresci em Braga num prédio à frente dos ciganos. O nosso era bem arranjado, destes que têm um café à porta; os deles eram blocos de concreto uns atrás dos outros, pareciam não ter fim. Havia um campo de futebol de relva entre os nossos …prédios. Víamos os miúdos ciganos a brincar no campo de futebol abaixo da nossa janela e nunca lá fomos, e nunca brincámos com os ciganos, ainda que os víssemos pela janela todos os dias. E se íamos brincar à praça e os ciganos aparecessem, voltávamos a casa.

Não fazíamos por mal; simplesmente não havia ninguém para nos dizer que os ciganos eram miúdos como nós. Afinal, os ciganos não são como nós, pois não?

Estas duas canções foram gravadas na Ajuda, nos prédios dos ciganos frente ao apartamento da Luciana. Os ciganos do bairro da Ajuda são originários da Espanha e já estão neste bairro há mais de 30 anos. A princípio moravam em barracas de latão postas nas ruas, contou-me uma senhora que passou nelas a infância; até que se construíram os prédios em que hoje habitam. Num prédio inteiro mora praticamente toda uma mesma família. Eles andam sempre juntos. x) Os apartamentos são gigantes, dois por andar, quatro quartos, mas eles são tão pobres que praticamente não têm mobília nenhuma. Vivem de vendas, geralmente de roupas, nas ruas ou nas feiras. Ainda que recebam do rendimento mínimo, têm que vender algo todos os dias porque senão não comem :( Agora com a crise, está cada vez mais difícil a sua sobrevivência.

A maior parte deles têm vozes excepcionais. E andam com os filhos todos à roda :) Já há tempos não falam romani mas cantam bastante em espanhol. Este foi o nosso primeiro ensaio. A primeira vez que entrei no prédio dos ciganos.

Eu brinquei com os miúdos ciganos x) São uns queridos! Gostam de fazer arte e são companheiros uns com os outros. Para eles, nós somos os “outros”. Os miúdos já sabem que nós somos os “outros”. Quando cheguei à igreja pelas primeiras vezes (além de mim, mais nínguém ali frequentava, que não fosse cigano) uma miúda de nove anos perguntou-me: “És senhora?”, respondi-lhe: “Como assim, sou senhora? Não sou senhora, sou uma miúda como tu”; “Então… és cigana?”, “Não, não sou cigana”. “Então és senhora! O que é que estás aqui a fazer?” E virou-se, desconfiada, para os amigos: “O que é que ela está aqui a fazer?” Foi a esta pequena a quem me afeiçoei mais x) Fui muito bem acolhida por todos os membros da igreja, como irmãos em Cristo. Somos membros de um só corpo, não importam os costumes, as tradições, a nacionalidade (eu sou “a brasileira” xD). Somos uma mesma família. E como membros de uma mesma família, por isso amados . Este amor que nós temos não é nosso, mas é o amor que Jesus derramou nos nossos corações uns pelos outros, porque se entregou a si mesmo por nós, quando ainda éramos pecadores. Quem me conhece que o diga! :) Nós amamos porqu Ele nos amou primeiro.

Entrai pela porta estreita; porque larga é a porta, e espaçoso o caminho que conduz à perdição, e muitos são os que entram por ela;

E porque estreita é a porta, e apertado o caminho que leva à vida, e poucos há que a encontrem.

Acautelai-vos, porém, dos falsos profetas, que vêm até vós vestidos como ovelhas, mas, interiormente, são lobos devoradores.

Mateus 7:13-16

Portanto, se com tua boca confessares que Jesus é o Senhor, e se em teu coração creres que Deus o ressuscitou dentre os mortos, serás salvo.

Romanos 10:9