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Hallelujah! The Power of the Word
haleluja - A minister I knew once questioned the depth or "the soul" of the song I wrote as it was " a song of largely just Hallelujahs". Today I'd like to take a moment about this issue and consider the phrase "Hallelujah" in a few depth.
Its etymology originates from the Hebrew and means "Praise Jah" or "Praise God". Oddly enough, it is a word that circumnavigates the planet and spans most languages. When translated, the term "Hallelujah" (or sometimes "Alleluia") continues to be the same: In Spanish it's "Aleluya", in Finnish and German it's "Haleluja", in French it's "Alleluia", in Estonian it's "Haleluuja", in Icelandic it's Halleluja, in Slovak it's "Aleluia" as well as on as well as on that way. So it's a word whose four syllables have a similar meaning to the majority of of mankind. Say the word almost around Africa and they understand how you are feeling. Very few words translate like that. Consider perhaps the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in their pronunciation and spelling in translation. "Hallelujah" is actually universal.
haleluja - I understand of few other word in language or song that carries such joy, such celebration, such depth of spirit and soul. Using its four open vowels, it is a gorgeous utterance to sing when sung alone or encompassed by itself and repeated repeatedly it is the epitome word of celebration in human language. I've found that after I'm writing a sacred song and i'm most filled with the spirit of God, these are the basic words that spill from me repeatedly because the melodies pour through me from God. Repeatedly, "Hallelujah". It occurs frequently i must rewrite the lyrics into other words, otherwise the majority of my songs would sing just "Hallelujahs".
A guy named George Fredric Handel used it to musically summarize his penultimate tribute to the birth of Christ within the finale of his "Messiah". Who has not sat in wonder in the singing of this great gift to mankind as the same word cascaded from your choir?
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For your Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
By no means comparing myself to Frederic Handel, I too used these words to great effect in a song that opened the performance with the Jenny Burton Experience which ran to out of stock audiences for more than seven years in New York City.
Let's start having a Hallelujah
Let's start out with a Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
There is music in our lives
There is music up everywhere
There's a spirit in our lives
As well as the music as well as the spirit are one
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
A simple statement, however with the weight and energy this unique word you can be certain the audiences knew wherever i was using the inspirational goal of the performance. It set the spirit with the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly in to the realm of spiritual thought.
haleluja - Just what word but symbolic with an idea. These sounds which come out of our mouths represent concepts large or small. Repeat the word "streetcar" and that we understand specifically that which you mean. Repeat the word "God" and you'll have as many definitions of that word as you have listeners. But repeat the word "Hallelujah" as well as the world is suddenly all on a single page and in some way feeling and having the light that you will be experiencing. It is a word that bears repetition, no, in reality, clamors for repetition, for to say it once is not enough. It must be repeated and repeated within the wonder of God's grace and power, love, soul, and spirit. Oahu is the penultimate word in the human language in praise of God.
When life's at its best, in the moment when few other words suffice, for most of us here on this planet, out pops the word "Hallelujah". This elegant and universal utterance captures the essence of celebration and is also immediately understood deeply inside the soul of all.
