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Hallelujah! The effectiveness of the Word
haleluja - A minister I knew once questioned the depth or "the soul" of a song I wrote because it was " a song of largely just Hallelujahs". Today I'd like to take the time with this issue and consider the term "Hallelujah" in some depth.
Its etymology is from the Hebrew and means "Praise Jah" or "Praise God". Oddly enough, it's a word that circumnavigates the planet and spans most languages. When translated, the word "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" and on as well as on like that. So it is anything whose four syllables mean the same thing to many of mankind. The word almost anywhere in Africa and they discover how you're feeling. Very few words translate this way. Consider the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in the pronunciation and spelling in translation. "Hallelujah" is really universal.
haleluja - I am aware of not one other word in language or song that carries such joy, such celebration, such depth of spirit and soul. With its four open vowels, it's a gorgeous utterance to sing so when sung alone or flanked by itself and repeated over and over oahu is the epitome word of celebration in human language. I have found that after I'm writing a sacred song that i'm most full of the spirit of God, fundamental essentials words that spill from me again and again as the melodies pour through me from God. Repeatedly, "Hallelujah". It happens frequently that I need to rewrite the lyrics into other words, otherwise nearly all of my songs would sing just "Hallelujahs".
A guy named George Fredric Handel used it to musically summarize his penultimate tribute for the birth of Christ within the finale of his "Messiah". Who may have not sat in wonder in the singing with this great gift to mankind since the same word cascaded in the choir?
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For the 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 of The Jenny Burton Experience which ran to sold out audiences for more than seven years within New York City.
Let's start using a Hallelujah
Let's start with a Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
There is certainly music in our lives
There is certainly music up all around us
There exists a spirit within our lives
And also the music and also the spirit is one
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
A straightforward statement, though the load and power this phenomenal word you can be certain the audiences knew in which i was going with the inspirational aim of the performance. It set the spirit of the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly into the whole world of spiritual thought.
haleluja - What is a word but symbolic for an idea. These sounds that come away from our mouths represent concepts small or large. Say the word "streetcar" and that we know precisely what you mean. The word "God" and you will have as many definitions of that word as you have listeners. But the word "Hallelujah" and the world is suddenly all for a passing fancy page and in some way feeling and having the light that you are experiencing. This is a word that bears repetition, no, actually, clamors for repetition, for to express it once is not enough. It must be repeated and repeated inside the wonder of God's grace and power, love, soul, and spirit. Oahu is the penultimate word inside 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 most of us here in the world, out pops the phrase "Hallelujah". This elegant and universal utterance captures the essence of celebration and is also immediately understood deeply inside the soul of most.
