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Question: I have read much about Qumran and they (?) have concluded that they were a “monastic” “acetic” (men-only) group. Is this true? And is it so OBVIOUS and ASSUMED that “neither man is without the women and women without the man” that , even though WOMEN are so rarely mentioned – and men tend to be men/centric – should WE “assume” that ALL of this ritual in ascending is (as we have it in the temple) that of married covenanted men and women rising, ascending TOGETHER to the Holy realms above as we have been taught in OUR Temples?