What are the origins of the Essenes?

Milan, the city in Lombardia, Italy

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The essences lived near the Dead sea because no one else would live there because of the weather. The essences made a different type of Judaism in which purity was very important. They wrote the Dead...

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They were a tiny splinter group who broke away from the mainstream Torah traditions and invented some new customs. The Jewish sages disapproved of the Essenes' innovations; and the Essenes eventually...