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==Karaite and Samaritan practice== [[Karaite Judaism|Karaite Jews]] and [[Samaritans|Israelite Samaritans]] begin counting the ''Omer'' on the day after the weekly Sabbath during [[Passover]], rather than on the second day of Passover (the 16th of Nisan). This is due to differing interpretations of {{Bibleverse|Leviticus|23:15β16|HE}}, where the Torah says to begin counting from the "morrow after the day of rest".<ref>{{cite web|title=Karaites Counting the Omer|date=4 April 2013|url=http://abluethread.com/2013/04/04/but-whos-counting-anyway/#more-1148}}</ref> Rabbinic Jews interpret the "day of rest" to be the first day of Passover, while Karaites and Samaritans understand it to be the first weekly Sabbath that falls during Passover. Thus, the Karaite and Samaritan Shavuot is always on a Sunday, although the actual Hebrew date varies (which complements the fact that a specific date is never given for Shavuot in the Torah, the only holiday for which this is the case).<ref>{{cite web|title=Count for the Omer|date=10 April 2020|url=http://www.karaite-korner.org/omer.shtml}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=What is shavuot?|url=http://www.karaite-korner.org/shavuot.shtml}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Samaritan Shavuot|date=3 June 2014 |url=http://www.israelite-samaritans.com/religion/shavuot/}}</ref> Historically, Karaite and Karaite-adjacent religious leaders such as [[Anan ben David]], [[Benjamin Nahawandi]], [[Muhammad ibn Isma'il]], [[Al-Tiflisi|Musa of Tiflis]] (founder of a 9th-century Jewish movement in Babylon); and Malik al Ramli (founder of a 9th-century Jewish movement in the Land of Israel) concluded that Shavuot should fall out on a Sunday.<ref name="Ankori p276">{{cite book |last=Ankori |first=Zvi |title=Karaites in Byzantium |page=276}}</ref> This is also the opinion of [[Catholics]]<ref name="jewishencyclopedia.com">{{cite web | last1 = Kohler | first1 = Kaufmann | first2 = J. L. | last2 = Magnus | url = http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=177&letter=P | title = Pentecost | publisher = [[Jewish Encyclopedia]] | access-date = May 29, 2009 | year = 2002 }}</ref> and the historical [[Sadducees]] and [[Boethusians]]. The counting of Karaite and Rabbinic Jews coincides when the first day of Passover is on the Sabbath. Samaritan Judaism has an additional difference: because the date of the Samaritan Passover usually differs from the Jewish one by approximately one lunar month,<ref>{{cite web|title=The Samaritan calendar|date=14 May 2020 |url=http://www.israelite-samaritans.com/religion/calendar/}}</ref> the Karaite and Samaritan counting rarely coincides, despite each beginning on a Sunday. [[Ethiopian Jews]] traditionally had yet another practice: they interpreted the "day of rest" to be the ''last'' day of Passover, rather than being the first day (as in rabbinic tradition) or else the Sabbath (as for Karaites).
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