1. PRAYER:
In the HODAYOT SCROLL (Thanksgiving Psalms), prayer, over a long period of time, some 20 years it seems, resulted in what appears to have been some kind of restoration or dispensation of knowledge and direction, leading to the organization of the Community of Qumran, under a teacher called The Teacher of Righteousness, by whatever name it called itself, sometime about 176 to 150 B.C. The QUMRAN community may have been true priests exiled from the Temple and Jerusalem, into the Desert, some seven miles south of Jericho, on the northwest side of the Dead Sea. They may even have taken a portion of or most of the Temple Library with them. After fifty years there is still debate on who they were and where they came from, and why.