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Edição de 12h42min de 16 de maio de 2014

Hallelujah! The strength of the term

haleluja - A minister I knew once questioned the depth or "the soul" of your song I wrote as it was " a song of largely just Hallelujahs". Today I want to spend some time with this issue and check out the term "Hallelujah" in some depth.

Its etymology originates from the Hebrew and means "Praise Jah" or "Praise God". Strangely enough, this is a word that circumnavigates the world and spans most languages. When translated, the word "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" and on and also on that way. Therefore it is a word whose four syllables have a similar meaning to many of mankind. Say the word almost anywhere in Africa and they know how you feel. Not many words translate that way. Consider the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in their pronunciation and spelling in translation. "Hallelujah" is actually universal.

haleluja - I am aware 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 flanked by itself and repeated over and over it's the epitome word of celebration in human language. I've found that whenever I'm writing a sacred song that i'm most full of the spirit of God, these are the words that spill out of me again and again because the melodies pour through me from God. Repeatedly, "Hallelujah". It occurs so frequently that I have to rewrite the lyrics into short, otherwise nearly all of my songs would sing only "Hallelujahs".

A person named George Fredric Handel put on the extender to musically summarize his penultimate tribute towards the birth of Christ inside the finale of his "Messiah". Who may have not sat in wonder on the singing of the great gift to mankind because the same word cascaded from your choir?

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For your Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Certainly not comparing myself to Frederic Handel, I too used these words to great effect in the song that opened the performance of The Jenny Burton Experience which ran to sold out audiences for more than seven years here in New york.

Let's start having a Hallelujah
Let's begin with a Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

There is certainly music within our lives
There is certainly music in the air all over
There is a spirit inside our lives
And also the music and the spirit are certainly one

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

An easy statement, but with the body weight and power of this amazing word it is certain the audiences knew exactly where i was choosing the inspirational goal 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 - Exactly what is a word but an emblem to have an idea. These sounds that come from our mouths represent concepts large or small. The word "streetcar" so we know exactly what you mean. Repeat the word "God" you'll also find as many definitions of that word as you've listeners. But say the word "Hallelujah" and the world is suddenly all on the same page plus a way feeling and having the light that you are experiencing. It's a word that bears repetition, no, in fact, clamors for repetition, for to express it once is not enough. It ought to be repeated and repeated inside 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 life's at its best, in the moment when not one other words suffice, for many people here in the world, out pops the term "Hallelujah". This elegant and universal utterance captures the essence of celebration and is immediately understood deeply in the soul of all.