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Tonight, 20 Sivan marks the 23rd yartzeit of Rabbi Yehuda Kalman Marlow obm, the legendary Chosid and scholar who served as Rov of the Crown Heights community. COLlive.com presents an article about his life. ....
By Joel Davidi Weisberger | July 01, 2021 Before I get to Abraham Firkovich’s remarkable letter to the third Lubavitcher Rebbe, known by his magnum opus “the Tzemach Tzedek,” I’d like to address something. People sometimes ask me (yes, I mean you, Mom) about the nature of my interest in the Karaites and Karaism, so I’d like to take this opportunity to relay my thoughts on the subject. As a young boy studying in yeshiva I was provided with a decent well-rounded education, but still I always felt that there was something missing. Tanach wasn’t studied so I made it my mission to go through it on my own. The same goes for Jewish history: I devoured every book on the subject. Since I was always fascinated by Jewish history, I had come across the Zadokim and the Karaites (although sharing quite a few similarities, the Zadokim were active during the Second Temple whereas the Karaites came on the scene in the Middle Ages. The terms were often interchange ....