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Hallelujah! The effectiveness of the phrase

haleluja - A minister I knew once questioned the depth or "the soul" of the song I wrote as it was " music of largely just Hallelujahs". Today I'd like to spend some time about this issue and consider the word "Hallelujah" in certain depth.

Its etymology is from the Hebrew and means "Praise Jah" or "Praise God". Oddly enough, it's a word that circumnavigates the globe and spans most languages. When translated, the phrase "Hallelujah" (or sometimes "Alleluia") remains 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 also on that way. So it's a word whose four syllables mean the same thing to the majority of of mankind. The word almost anywhere in Africa plus they know 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 really universal.

haleluja - I understand of not one other word in language or song that carries such joy, such celebration, such depth of spirit and soul. Using its four open vowels, this is a gorgeous utterance to sing and when sung alone or flanked 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 and i'm most filled up with the spirit of God, these are the words that spill away from me again and again as the melodies pour through me from God. Again and again, "Hallelujah". It occurs so often that I have to rewrite the lyrics into simple terms, otherwise nearly all of my songs would sing just "Hallelujahs".

A man named George Fredric Handel tried on the extender to musically summarize his penultimate tribute towards the birth of Christ within the finale of his "Messiah". That has not sat in wonder in the singing with this great gift to mankind as the same word cascaded in 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 the song that opened the performance from the Jenny Burton Experience which ran to sold-out audiences for more than seven years in Nyc.

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

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

There's music inside our lives
There is music in mid-air everywhere
There exists a spirit inside our lives
And the music and the spirit is one

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

A simple statement, however with the load and energy this unique word it is certain the audiences knew exactly where we had been using the inspirational goal of the performance. It set the spirit with the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly into the arena of spiritual thought.

haleluja - Just what word but symbolic with an idea. These sounds that can come out of our mouths represent concepts large or small. The word "streetcar" and that we know precisely everything you mean. The word "God" and you will have as numerous definitions of that word as you have listeners. But say the word "Hallelujah" as well as the world is suddenly all on a single page plus some way feeling and knowing the light that you are experiencing. It's a word that bears repetition, no, in fact, clamors for repetition, for to express it once just isn't enough. It ought to be repeated and repeated within the wonder of God's grace and power, love, soul, and spirit. It's the penultimate word inside the human language in praise of God.

When life is at its best, within the moment when no other words suffice, for most of us here in the world, out pops the term "Hallelujah". This elegant and universal utterance captures the essence of celebration and is also immediately understood deeply in the soul of most.