Chapter 10: House of the Zadokites, Religious Judaism, and the Babylonian Calendar

The Qumran House of Tzadok (the Zadokites and their New Covenant associates) faithfully observed the weekly Sabbath and all the biblical festivals according to a unique year of 364 days. The religious leaders of Judaism would have nothing to do with the Zadokite calendar or their biblical authority. It was chosen, instead, to proclaim a year according to 12 sighted new moon cycles alternating between 29 and 30 days. Then, every three years, a 13th month was intercalated or added (referred to as Adar Bet) to realign the faster lunar seasons with the slower solar year.
To obfuscate when to start a new year, Judaism's religious leaders introduced a yearly search for Aviv Barley and linked it to the springtime birthing of sheep and the early blossoming of the almond trees. They also instituted a series of festival postponement rules to ensure that the biblical festivals would not be proclaimed on the first of the week ("Sunday"), the fourth of the week ("Wednesday"), or the sixth of the week ("Friday") because these three days validated the authority of the House of Tzadok. They would have nothing to do with their authority.
To further seal a new system of temple teaching and judging authority, the numbered months of a year were assigned Babylonian names. These dates and names are still retained in Judaism today. In today's program, we will have a look at this.
The question is this: Will we make the necessary changes to leave behind our Korah Rebellion of Numbers chapter 16, or will we continue embracing the Jewish custom of weeping for Tammuz?
This chapter of the Zadokites and Qumran-Chapter 10-addresses all of this and so much more.