LittleJew said:
Today I spoke to this guy on the internet who said he's a karaty jew or something like that. They have a website but I forgot to write down the URL. The guy said my tallit-katan is not kosher because it doesn't have a blue thread in it. Asked mom she said we don't have the right dye to make the blue thread according to tradition. The guy said Torah doesn't say specify the dye only to add a blue dye. Dad said we don't need to keep everything there is in the Torah. Who's right? What about those karaty jews? What do they believe in?
The guy said I'm supposed to let my beard grow. Our rabbi doesn't have a beard. Says G-d no longer requires that we grow our beards. Dad agrees. Mom says our rabbi is an idiot. I don't wanna grow my beard. The other kids will make fun of me at school. Do I like *have to* grow it?
Yep, you're talking about Karaites, to which I'd have to say that I'm most similar to in terms of Jewish denominations. What we both believe in common is that the Written Torah is the final authority, rejecting parts or the whole of Oral Torah (Mishnah, Gemara, etc.).
For example, if I were to look at Leviticus where it says to use a blue thread, I use a blue thread. I do not adhere to the Oral teaching that a specific blue dye must be used, as I see that it is nowhere commanded in Written Torah, and the hue of the dye made from mollusks is separately defined as "purple" in many places throughout the Tanakh.
As for keeping everything that is in the Torah, I have seen that it was clear that YHWH wishes everyone to follow the entirety of the Law of Moses to the best of their ability, so (for example) Karaites and myself keep the Passover by actually eating lamb instead of just having the shankbone as mourning for the Temple.
As for the verses concerning shaving one's beard, a literal reading of the Hebrew talks about not bashing ones head on the sides (no mention of sideburns) and (literally) destroying the edge of one's beard (not the normal verb for shaving or cutting hair), in other words, good hygiene (again, my own honest reading).
Many Karaites and Karaite-like Jews (especially Messianics) don't wear Talits (Katan or otherwise) but affix tzitzyot to the extremities of their everyday clothing, and don't wear kippot.
As a result, many people see these interpretations as additional halacha, but they are in no ways used as legal rulings. My philosophy, for one, is that if God intended us to all be cookie-cutter beings he wouldn't have given us choice.
In the end, the Law of Moses is something that is not to be contained within empty ritual, or striving to be justified before God through adherence to its statues. Adherence to GOD has to be something you have in your innermost being, as Jesus teaches, and that will in turn lead you down the proper path.
Shlomo,
-Steve-o
You list your age as 15, nu? 
