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Edição de 12h46min de 16 de maio de 2014

Hallelujah! The effectiveness of the phrase

haleluja - A minister I knew once questioned the depth or "the soul" of a song I wrote as it was " music of largely just Hallelujahs". Today I'd like to take a moment about this issue and look at the term "Hallelujah" in a few depth.

Its etymology is from the Hebrew and means "Praise Jah" or "Praise God". Strangely enough, it's 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 also on and on like that. So it's a thing whose four syllables have a similar meaning to many of mankind. Repeat the word almost any place in Africa and so they discover how you are feeling. Hardly any words translate that way. Consider perhaps the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in the pronunciation and spelling in translation. "Hallelujah" is truly 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 and when sung alone or encompassed by itself and repeated again and again it's the epitome word of celebration in human language. I find that after I'm writing a sacred song that i'm most filled up 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. Repeatedly, "Hallelujah". It takes place so often i must rewrite the lyrics into short, otherwise nearly all of my songs would sing only "Hallelujahs".

A man named George Fredric Handel tried on the extender 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 the great gift to mankind since the same word cascaded from your 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 inside a song that opened the performance from the Jenny Burton Experience which ran to out of stock audiences for upwards of seven years in Nyc.

Let's begin with a Hallelujah
Let's begin with a Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

There is certainly music inside our lives
There is certainly music up all around us
There is a spirit in our lives
And also the music as well as the spirit is one

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

An easy statement, however with the weight and power of this phenomenal word it is certain the audiences knew exactly where we had been going with the inspirational goal of the performance. It set the spirit of the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly into the realm of spiritual thought.

haleluja - Exactly what is a word but an emblem for an idea. These sounds which come out of our mouths represent concepts small or large. Say the word "streetcar" and we understand specifically what you mean. Repeat the word "God" you'll also find as numerous definitions of this word as you have listeners. But say the word "Hallelujah" as well as the world is suddenly all on the same page plus some way feeling and understanding the light that you will be experiencing. This is a word that bears repetition, no, in fact, clamors for repetition, for to say it once is not enough. It ought to be repeated and repeated within the wonder of God's grace and power, love, soul, and spirit. Oahu is the penultimate word within the human language in praise of God.

When every day life is at its best, inside the moment when not one other words suffice, for many people here on this planet, out pops the term "Hallelujah". This elegant and universal utterance captures the essence of celebration and is immediately understood deeply inside the soul of all.