You Are Holy: The Qedusha Piyyutim of R. Aaron Ben Joseph the Karaite for the Weekly Torah Portions most of whom lived in

most of whom lived in the region of the Pale of Settlement

religious practices and holy texts appeared in virtually every issue

This book was not developed by The Karaite Press team

in that prayer book

You Are Holy: The Qedusha Piyyutim of R. Aaron Ben Joseph the Karaite for the Weekly Torah Portions most of whom lived inThis volume presents for the first time an English translation and detailed analysis, together with the Hebrew original, of the poems for the weekly Torah portions composed by Rabbi Aaron ben Joseph, of thirteenth to fourteenth century Constantinople. Aaron ben Joseph was a central figure in medieval European Karaite Judaism. He was the redactor of the Karaite prayer book, and authored piyyutim, that is, poems used in the service, in that prayer book.