I've taken the liberty of translating the prayer of the High Priests from my ancestor's book of prayers that he had published in 1867 in Vienna. The Hebrew he used was based on ancient sources and it did provide me with some difficulty but the gist of the translation is fairly accurate and the prayer is definitely different from any of the ones available from most Jewish prayer books. I discuss these differences and their pertinance to his Karaite beliefs. I invite you to read his words at http://hubpages.com/t/179c25

Many are confused about the issue of women's rights in Karaism thinking that because Karaism is based on the Torah that it would be archaic in its treatment of women. In fact the exact opposite is true. The Torah was very progressive in its attitude towards women and it has only been the later religious interpretrations by Rabbanite Judaism, Christianity and Islam that have deemed woman as second class citizens.

As Karaites we all know that our strength is that ability to interpret the Tanach to our own satisfaction. As long as our interpretations satisfy the requirements in the Torah and meet our own personal perceptions then we are correct in our beliefs. It means that others can have slightly different beliefs from our own but it makes them no less Karaite and in no way less faithful than ourselves. So we have created a faith which embraces personal differences and that in itself is lauditory.