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Hallelujah! The effectiveness of the Word

haleluja - A minister I knew once questioned the depth or "the soul" of your song I wrote since it was " an audio lesson of largely just Hallelujahs". Today I'd like to take a moment on this issue and check out the word "Hallelujah" in certain depth.

Its etymology comes from the Hebrew and means "Praise Jah" or "Praise God". Strangely enough, it's a word that circumnavigates the planet and spans most languages. When translated, the term "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 also on and also on like that. Therefore it is anything whose four syllables mean the same thing to the majority of of mankind. Say the word almost any place in Africa and so they know how you are feeling. Not many words translate this way. Consider perhaps the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in its 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's 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 whenever I'm writing a sacred song and i'm most full of the spirit of God, these are the words that spill out of me repeatedly since the melodies pour through me from God. Over and over again, "Hallelujah". It happens so frequently which i have to rewrite the lyrics into other words, otherwise nearly all of my songs would sing just "Hallelujahs".

A man named George Fredric Handel put on the extender to musically summarize his penultimate tribute to the birth of Christ inside the finale of his "Messiah". That has not sat in wonder at the singing of the great gift to mankind because the same word cascaded from the choir?

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

In no way 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 here in Nyc.

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

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

There's music inside our lives
There is music up everywhere
There exists a spirit in our lives
And also the music and also the spirit are certainly one

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

A straightforward statement, however with the body weight and energy this unique word you can be sure the audiences knew exactly where we had been going with the inspirational intention of the performance. It set the spirit of the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly to the realm of spiritual thought.

haleluja - Just what word but symbolic to have an idea. These sounds that can come out of our mouths represent concepts small or large. Say the word "streetcar" and that we know precisely that which you mean. Say the word "God" and you will have as many definitions of this word as you've listeners. But the word "Hallelujah" and also the world is suddenly all for a passing fancy page and in some way feeling and understanding the light that you will be experiencing. This is a word that bears repetition, no, actually, clamors for repetition, for to say it once isn't 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 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 most people here in the world, out pops the word "Hallelujah". This elegant and universal utterance captures the essence of celebration and is also immediately understood deeply in the soul of most.