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Hallelujah! The strength of the term
haleluja - A minister I knew once questioned the depth or "the soul" of a song I wrote as it was " an audio lesson of largely just Hallelujahs". Today Let me spend some time with this issue and look at the word "Hallelujah" in certain depth.
Its etymology originates from the Hebrew and means "Praise Jah" or "Praise God". Oddly enough, this is a word that circumnavigates the globe and spans most languages. When translated, the phrase "Hallelujah" (or sometimes "Alleluia") continues to be 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 and on like this. So it is a word whose four syllables have a similar meaning to the majority of of mankind. Repeat the word almost around Africa and they discover how you feel. Not many words translate that way. Consider even the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in their pronunciation and spelling in translation. "Hallelujah" is truly universal.
haleluja - I know of few other word in language or song that carries such joy, such celebration, such depth of spirit and soul. Having its four open vowels, this is a gorgeous utterance to sing when sung alone or surrounded by itself and repeated repeatedly it is the epitome word of celebration in human language. I find that after I'm writing a sacred song and I am most filled with the spirit of God, these are the basic words that spill out of me again and again since the melodies pour through me from God. Again and again, "Hallelujah". It occurs so often i must rewrite the lyrics into other words, otherwise the majority of my songs would sing only "Hallelujahs".
A man named George Fredric Handel put on the extender to musically summarize his penultimate tribute towards the birth of Christ in the finale of his "Messiah". Who may have not sat in wonder on the singing with this great gift to mankind because the same word cascaded from your choir?
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For that Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Certainly not comparing myself to Frederic Handel, I too used these words to great effect in a song that opened the performance of The Jenny Burton Experience which ran to out of stock audiences for upwards of seven years here in New york.
Let's begin using a Hallelujah
Let's begin with a Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
There's music within our lives
There is certainly music in the air all around us
There's a spirit inside our lives
And the music and the spirit are certainly one
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
An easy statement, though the weight and power this phenomenal word you can be sure the audiences knew wherever i was going with the inspirational aim of the performance. It set the spirit with the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly to the realm of spiritual thought.
haleluja - What is a word but a symbol for an idea. These sounds that can come away from our mouths represent concepts large or small. Repeat the word "streetcar" and we know exactly that which you mean. The word "God" you'll also find as numerous definitions of the word as you've listeners. But repeat the word "Hallelujah" and also the world is suddenly all on the same page plus some way feeling and having the light that you are experiencing. It is a word that bears repetition, no, in reality, clamors for repetition, for to state it once is not enough. It should be repeated and repeated within the wonder of God's grace and power, love, soul, and spirit. It is the penultimate word within the human language in praise of God.
When every day life is at its best, in the moment when not one other words suffice, for many people here on the earth, out pops the phrase "Hallelujah". This elegant and universal utterance captures the essence of celebration and is also immediately understood deeply within the soul of most.
