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ZAMBIA

THIS TOO SHALL PASS

Samuel Phillips When you critically look at the
story above, you see something

am pretty sure that for anyone the phrase does not really point very beautiful, that is, it takes your
who has at one time or the to something negative. Let’s take a mind to the truth that no condi-
other heard the phrase “this look. tion or season will last forever.
I oo shall pass”, most like- Now you may be asking how is this
t
ly it was used in the context of a According to Rabbi Lisa Rubin, about Zambia as a nation? Well,
negative event. So, people use the “King Solomon was trying to humble his this column of the magazine in
phrase “this too shall pass” as a wisest servant, so he asked him to perform which we write a specific message
form of encouraging someone a seemingly impossible task: to find about a country in Afrika is not just
going through unwanted stuff, that something that did not exist. He requested about that country, but also about a
even the present issue will pass a magic ring — one that, if a sad man message to Afrika and Afrikans as
also, as every other events that have wore it, he would become happy and if a whole. But what does it mean for
happened before. a happy man wore it, he would become Afrika when one prays and says “this
sad.” The story suggests that the servant too shall pass”?
Truth be told, when I was given could not find anything of such nature.
this message “this too shall pass” So, King Solomon decided upon himself to I really do not have a knowledge
for Zambia, I did not really like it. go to a jeweler and design a ring with the of what is going on right now in
I guess the feeling was like there inscription in Hebrew saying, “Gam ze Zambia as a nation, but it’s clear
is something wrong about Zam- ya’avor,” which means, “This, too, shall that Afrika and the whole world
bia that needs to pass. But I think pass.” is going through stuff that is not

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