Dr. Marc Gafni
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And Solomon is David's son.
And David is Leonard Cohen.
Hallelujah.
And Leonard Cohen's song, Hallelujah, is about, in the first stanza, David birthing Solomon.
That's Cohen's point.
Cohen's point was, oh, even though it all went wrong, I stand before the Lord of song with nothing on my tongue and nothing on my lips but Hallelujah.
Or there's a blaze of light in every word.
It doesn't matter which I heard, the holy or the broken Hallelujah.
And Hallelujah means...
Drunken intoxication and the pristine clarity of the God voice.
Hallelujah.
Praise.
Yeah.
I hear the voice of God.
And Cohen got this intuitively.
And the hallelujah song is a prayer.
It's a prayer.
It's a prayer and a prophecy.
It's a hope and it's a vision.
And there's more covers of that song sung around the world more than any other song because there's this intuitive recognition that