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Andy toured Africa for the first time in 2005, performing at the Bob Marley 60th birthday concert in Addis Ababa, and while in Ethiopia also sang at the President's Palace and gave benefit concerts for the Twelve Tribes organization at the Rastafari movement settlement at Shashamane.
The Talmud, starting with the Mishnah(c. 220 CE) uses 'Reuven', 'Shimon', 'Levi' etc. being the names of the three eldest sons of Jacob and the corresponding tribes of Israel, as disputants in legal matters.
These historical connections go back to the time of Temple worship, when the same kinds of stones were set in the golden Breastplate of the Ephod worn by the Kohen Gadol, and on the Ephod the names of each of the twelve tribes of Israel were inscribed on a particular type of stone.