Psalms 104:33: “I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.”

Mark 5:30:  “And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?”

I was reading in the extra Biblical literature and I noticed a rather odd use for the Aramaic word chayel which is rendered in Mark 5:30 as virtue or power.  It is sometimes used for dancing, or for twirling around, it suggest movement.  It has even been rendered as vibrations. What Jesus could very well have been saying is that when the woman with the issue of blood touched Him, He felt vibrations go out from Him and she was healed.

I was reading some of the works of Rabbi Solomon Hirsch, a master of Hebrew and Semitic languages. He points out that unlike our European languages where words are developed randomly, the Semitic languages built words from basic roots. Hence many words which are not spelled the same still may come from the same root.  In Genesis 1:26 we find God saying: “Let us make man in our image.”  The word image in Hebrew is tsalam. This word is related to shalom which means peace, healing, joyfulness, pleasure and many other positive things.  When God made us in His image he transferred all his positive traits to us. Solomon Hirsch also suggest a relationship between chavel and its Aramaic equivalent chayel and concluded that God also passed on to us something dealing with movement. Hirsch lived in the 19^th Century.  In the 21^st Century we have devoted much scientific study to the idea of movement.  We have learned that everything that exist in the natural word is moving.

Even a rock which appears totally steady  is on a molecular level actually moving, we call it vibrations. Vibrations produce a sound, a musical sound, a song.  Scientist have even found a way to record the sound or vibrations of matter.  Everything that exist has a song, we have a song as our body and soul vibrates.

Note Psalms 104:33 it says that I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live and as long as I have my being.   The word for live is chi which is the same root as chayel.  Life and vibrations are of the same root and science has shown that life does give off vibrations.

But now look at this first word that is used for sing. It is the word  shir which according to your lexicons means to sing.  We do not learn anything about the nature of singing from our lexicons. It just assumes we all know what singing is. What is the difference in speaking and singing?  In singing you are trying to make pleasant musical sound. Webster defines singing as uttering words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice.  Singing has an element of emotions. There is joyful singing, melancholy singing or triumphant singing. Singing and music creates a mood it gives off chayel, vibrations.

Than ancient rabbis believed the root word for shir was shur.  That being the case the word shur means to become excited, to leap or spring upward. Again the idea of movement bringing us back to vibrations.  Singing is all about creating vibrations.

The second word used for sing is rendered as sing praises, it is the word zamar which is the strumming of an instrument or striking strings with the fingers to make them vibrate. There it is again that word vibrate.  Singing praises to God is creating a vibration that is in tune the vibrations of God. If Rabbi Hirsch is right that there is a relationship between being created in the image of God and vibrations which would mean when he declared that man and woman were good or tov and tov meaning to be in harmony with someone or something then when God created man and woman He created them to be of the same vibrations, the same frequency that He vibrates at.

I remember as a child making a crystal radio.  I would play with a little thingy that adjusted the frequency and then through my head phones I would hear a lot of static.  But as the frequency of my radio started to match the frequency or vibrations of the radio signal being sent I began to gradually get a clear sound.

Could it be that when we worship God in words and songs we are creating vibrations that are matching those of God and the closer our vibrations get to the vibrations of God the clearer He becomes to us.

I read where our DNA actually gives off vibrations, they give off a song.  My study partner said she has a book that talks about actually manipulating our DNA though our emotions, attitudes and diet. There is a theory that when we ingest meat we are ingesting the DNA of that animal. If that animal was terrified and fearful when it was slaughtered, could it be that his DNA could affect our DNA?   Would that explain why God gave such strict dietary laws.  Even down to how to slaughter an animal in the most humane way possible?  It is only a theory, not really yet proven.

Still, this whole thing of vibrations does make one think about sin and just what sin really is, could it be anything that does not match the vibrations of God and as long as those sins exist in our lives, we are out of tune with God.  Maybe that is why when we try to reach out to God we only get static. Sometimes we can almost discern God’s voice in that static as we confess our sins and move closer to being in tune with God.

I remember that old hymn How Great Thou Art where the chorus begins, “Then sings my soul…”  I used to wonder just how my soul could sing, it had not body, no vocal chords, no diaphragm that are necessary to singing.  But our soul does vibrate. There are times I listen to the Word of God or I sing a song of praise and worship and you know what, I can almost feel my soul vibrating in tune or on the same frequency as the Spirit of God.