The Twelve Tribes of Israel: An Organizing MovementThe Rastafarian movement has been one of the most important movements of our time. He showed us that it's possible to make lemonade out of the lemons we're given, and that violence isn't the only way to deal with problems or get what you feel you deserve. It has also provided a system of belief and following to over 700,000 loyal 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 has branched into a variety of sub-movements, such as Nyabinghi, the Ethiopian National Congress. or the Bobo dreads 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 the other Rastas are exclusive to blacks, mainly due to the very roots of the religion: whites enslave them. While this idea may seem quite revolutionary, there are other aspects of this movement that are completely missed. Frankly, in many cases the faith resembles the influences of Christianity and Judaism more than Rastafarianism. The purpose of this article is to shed some light on the largely unknown subject of this interesting and persistent movement. First I will 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 had to share this title with many others, because in the Scriptures the House of Israel is made up of twelve tribes and the Jews are only one of those twelve. Jacob was just an ordinary boy who lived long before the birth of Jesus Christ. He had 2 sister wives and two slave wives. 12 boys were born among them. One night, while these boys were little, an angel came to Jacob and they spent the whole evening wrestling. The angel was God. Surprisingly, God did not annihilate this mere human and the match ended in a stalemate. God then changed Jacob's name to Israel, meaning "rebel." Who else but a rebel would physically fight with the angel of God?