{"id":88403,"date":"2021-02-06T22:12:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T20:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=88403"},"modified":"2021-02-06T22:12:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T20:12:55","slug":"the-first-and-future-hallelujah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-first-and-future-hallelujah\/","title":{"rendered":"The First And Future Hallelujah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"88403","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":46656,"related_cahpter":"671","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Evil is part of God\u2019s creation - but so is overcoming it\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The phrase \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Barchi nafshi et-Hashem<\/em> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 my soul, bless God\u201d opens and closes this psalm in which King David provides an impassioned review of the world God has not just created, but maintains. David covers everything from the waters to the mountains, animals and agriculture, the sun, the moon, darkness and light, and speaks to the miraculous interdependency of all God\u2019s creations. He ends his recitation with the words \u201cHow great are Your works, God! You have made them all with wisdom and the earth is full of Your possessions (104:24)!\u201d David\u2019s awe in the world is palpable throughout this psalm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When he completes his passionate review of the glory of the world, David adds one more observation: \u201cSinners will be destroyed from the earth and evil will be no more (104:35).\u201d David seems to be acknowledging that evil, and by extension evildoers, are also one of God\u2019s creations. Evil is not, to most of us, in the same realm of majestic mountains and sustaining waters but to David, its existence in God\u2019s world is as valid as all the wonders he has just enumerated. But what evokes the strongest praise from David is his surety that God will destroy evil. For that, David says not only \u201c<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barchi nafshi<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d but concludes with \u201c<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hallelujah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d (104:35).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The word \u201cHallelujah\u201d derives from \u201cHallel \u2013 praise\u201d plus the two-letter form of God\u2019s name, and appears only in the book of Psalms, with this being the very first instance. It is such an authentically evocative word, that although it has been adopted by many cultures, there is rarely an attempt to translate it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rav Kook suggests that as long as evil exists, God\u2019s creation is incomplete. To support this explanation of incompleteness, Rav Kook points to the use of the two-letter name of God appended to \u201cHallel\u201d instead of the four-letter Tetragrammaton, reserved for Messianic days. David\u2019s Hallelujah is specifically tied to the time when God will remove evil from the world, and His creation will be complete. Says Kook, a world in which evil existed but was overcome is a greater world than one in which evil never existed to begin with. 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