Biography
Rekhavi is the Chancellor of the Karaite Jewish University and a founding member of the University which was created in November 2005. In July 2007 Rekhavi served on the Beth Din (Jewish religious court) of the Karaite Jews of America that performed the first conversions of Gentiles to Karaite Judaism since 1465. Rekhavi was born to an Orthodox Jewish family of Lithuanian extraction and raised as a Rabbanite Jew who studied in various yeshivoth in Jerusalem before embracing Karaite Judaism. In 1981 Rekhavi began to question the authority of the Rabbanite oral law. From 1984 Rekhavi was mentored by the Karaite Hakham Mordechai Alfandari in Jerusalem, Israel. Rekhavi served in an elite unit of the Israeli Defense Forces, Rekhavi compiled the Biblical Passover Haggadah.
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