The Twelve Tribes of Israel: An Organizational MovementThe Rastafarian movement has been one of the most important movements of our time. It showed us that it is possible to make lemonade out of the lemons we are given and that violence is not the only way to deal with problems or get what we think we deserve. It has also provided a system of faith and following for over 700,000 faithful people. A social, political and religious explosion with as few negative connotations as possible, Rasta is about as good as it gets. Like all religious trees, Rasta branched out into a variety of sub-movements, such as Nyabinghi, the Ethiopian National Congress. or the Bobo Redoubts, and the Twelve Tribes of Israel, to name a few. The Twelve Tribes are particularly interesting because they believe in the salvation of all races, while the doctrines of other Rastas are exclusive to blacks, mainly due to the very roots of the religion: whites make slaves of them. Although this idea may seem quite revolutionary, other aspects of this movement are completely behind the scenes. Frankly, the faith more closely resembles its influences from Christianity and Judaism than Rastafarianism, in many cases. The purpose of this article is to shed some light on the largely unknown subject of this interesting and enduring movement. I will first discuss the history of the twelve tribes of Israel, an ideal embraced primarily and wholeheartedly by Jews. The name “Israel” comes from heaven. Most of us, when we hear the word “Israel,” think only of Jews. But from the beginning they must have shared this title with many others, because in the Scriptures the house of Israel consists of twelve tribes and the Jews are only one of these twelve. Jacob was just an ordinary man, living long before he was born. of Jesus Christ. He had two wives who were sisters and two female slaves. Between them were born 12 boys. One night when these children were young, an angel came to Jacob and they spent the whole evening wrestling. The angel was God. Surprisingly, God did not destroy this simple human and the match ended in a stalemate. God then changed Jacob's name to Israel, which means "rebel." Who but a rebel would fight physically with the angel of God?