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A son of David, kind of like who Jesus was, a descendant of David, right? Right. was also Selassie. You following me? Okay. Now the word Rastafari comes from Haile Selassie, which is Rastafari, right? It was his name, right? So he was one of the only independent black leaders in Africa at the time, right? So he bears this

cultural, political, historical, and symbolic importance to just the African diaspora. Now, once you get into the practices of Rastafarianism, like again, like the way of life, like the diet, you know, avoiding shellfish, eating seafood, like it's pretty similar to like kosher practices, again, because they have this tie to the land, the history.

cultural, political, historical, and symbolic importance to just the African diaspora. Now, once you get into the practices of Rastafarianism, like again, like the way of life, like the diet, you know, avoiding shellfish, eating seafood, like it's pretty similar to like kosher practices, again, because they have this tie to the land, the history.

cultural, political, historical, and symbolic importance to just the African diaspora. Now, once you get into the practices of Rastafarianism, like again, like the way of life, like the diet, you know, avoiding shellfish, eating seafood, like it's pretty similar to like kosher practices, again, because they have this tie to the land, the history.

So there's a lot of practices that are like, that are that they have a lot of practices about being welcoming to the sojourner about the way that we collectively sing. Jah is a Jamaican version of saying Yah, which is short for Yahweh. So when we say Jah Rastafari, you know, it's your Jah is Yah, Yahweh or Jehovah, right? So these, a lot of them are vegetarian. They don't eat meat at all.

So there's a lot of practices that are like, that are that they have a lot of practices about being welcoming to the sojourner about the way that we collectively sing. Jah is a Jamaican version of saying Yah, which is short for Yahweh. So when we say Jah Rastafari, you know, it's your Jah is Yah, Yahweh or Jehovah, right? So these, a lot of them are vegetarian. They don't eat meat at all.

So there's a lot of practices that are like, that are that they have a lot of practices about being welcoming to the sojourner about the way that we collectively sing. Jah is a Jamaican version of saying Yah, which is short for Yahweh. So when we say Jah Rastafari, you know, it's your Jah is Yah, Yahweh or Jehovah, right? So these, a lot of them are vegetarian. They don't eat meat at all.

Definitely not beef or pork because you keep the temple clean, right? you very rarely are gonna find an overweight Rasta. They're usually in incredibly good shape. The dreadlocks have to do with what's called the vow of the Nazarite, because again, we're talking Old Testament.

Definitely not beef or pork because you keep the temple clean, right? you very rarely are gonna find an overweight Rasta. They're usually in incredibly good shape. The dreadlocks have to do with what's called the vow of the Nazarite, because again, we're talking Old Testament.

Definitely not beef or pork because you keep the temple clean, right? you very rarely are gonna find an overweight Rasta. They're usually in incredibly good shape. The dreadlocks have to do with what's called the vow of the Nazarite, because again, we're talking Old Testament.

Samson, in the Bible, Samson with his golden locks, the Samson and Delilah, Samson had took what's called a Nazarite vow, which was a vow to keep himself holy to the Lord, and the symbol of that holiness to the Lord was not cutting your hair. This is as a symbol of our holiness, the vow of the Nazarite, you grow your dreadlocks, right?

Samson, in the Bible, Samson with his golden locks, the Samson and Delilah, Samson had took what's called a Nazarite vow, which was a vow to keep himself holy to the Lord, and the symbol of that holiness to the Lord was not cutting your hair. This is as a symbol of our holiness, the vow of the Nazarite, you grow your dreadlocks, right?

Samson, in the Bible, Samson with his golden locks, the Samson and Delilah, Samson had took what's called a Nazarite vow, which was a vow to keep himself holy to the Lord, and the symbol of that holiness to the Lord was not cutting your hair. This is as a symbol of our holiness, the vow of the Nazarite, you grow your dreadlocks, right?

Dreadlocks was a term given to us by the British that we just own. Nazi dread! So because our hair, our locks were dreadful, so dreadlocks. There's also sects that believe that God grabs the dead souls by their dreadlocks and brings them to heaven. Again, the symbol's beautiful. But either way, it's a symbol of the promise, your commitment to keeping yourself sanctified to the Father.

Dreadlocks was a term given to us by the British that we just own. Nazi dread! So because our hair, our locks were dreadful, so dreadlocks. There's also sects that believe that God grabs the dead souls by their dreadlocks and brings them to heaven. Again, the symbol's beautiful. But either way, it's a symbol of the promise, your commitment to keeping yourself sanctified to the Father.

Dreadlocks was a term given to us by the British that we just own. Nazi dread! So because our hair, our locks were dreadful, so dreadlocks. There's also sects that believe that God grabs the dead souls by their dreadlocks and brings them to heaven. Again, the symbol's beautiful. But either way, it's a symbol of the promise, your commitment to keeping yourself sanctified to the Father.

If you're being a traditional Rastadim. Now, their belief, again, so follow me, this is still an Abrahamic faith. That's why you're going to hear terms like Mount Zion, which I'm going to get to specifically in a second. But

If you're being a traditional Rastadim. Now, their belief, again, so follow me, this is still an Abrahamic faith. That's why you're going to hear terms like Mount Zion, which I'm going to get to specifically in a second. But

If you're being a traditional Rastadim. Now, their belief, again, so follow me, this is still an Abrahamic faith. That's why you're going to hear terms like Mount Zion, which I'm going to get to specifically in a second. But

Their belief, different than Christianity, although similar in a lot of ways, similar to Judaism in a lot of ways, their belief is that, like I said, Selassie was the Messiah, right? This is an Afro-centric belief. How did it get to Jamaica? The transatlantic slave trade. So it gets to Jamaica via the slave trade, right? We got carted off. Remember, this is an Afrocentric belief.