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Hallelujah! The Power of the term
haleluja - A minister I knew once questioned the depth or "the soul" of a song I wrote as it was " a song of largely just Hallelujahs". Today Let me spend some time on this issue and check out the phrase "Hallelujah" in a few depth.
Its etymology comes 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 phrase "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 and also on that way. So it's anything whose four syllables mean the same thing to most of mankind. Repeat the word almost any place in Africa and so they understand how you are feeling. Very few words translate that way. Consider perhaps the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in its pronunciation and spelling in translation. "Hallelujah" is truly universal.
haleluja - I know of few other word in language or song that carries such joy, such celebration, such depth of spirit and soul. With 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've found that after I'm writing a sacred song that i'm most filled with the spirit of God, these are the basic words that spill out of me again and again as the melodies pour through me from God. Repeatedly, "Hallelujah". It occurs frequently which i need to rewrite the lyrics into short, otherwise most of my songs would sing nothing but "Hallelujahs".
A person named George Fredric Handel put 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 at the singing of the great gift to mankind as the same word cascaded from the choir?
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For the 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 from the Jenny Burton Experience which ran to out of stock audiences for over seven years here in Nyc.
Let's begin with a Hallelujah
Let's begin with a Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
There is music inside our lives
There is certainly music up all over
There is a spirit within our lives
And also the music as well as the spirit are certainly one
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
A straightforward statement, however with the load and power of this phenomenal word you can be certain the audiences knew in which we were using the inspirational intention of the performance. It set the spirit from the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly to the whole world of spiritual thought.
haleluja - Exactly what is a word but a symbol to have an idea. These sounds which come away from our mouths represent concepts small or large. Repeat the word "streetcar" and we understand specifically what you mean. Repeat the word "God" you'll also find as many definitions of that word because you have listeners. But the word "Hallelujah" and the world is suddenly all on a single page and in some way feeling and understanding the light that you're experiencing. It is a word that bears repetition, no, in fact, clamors for repetition, for to state it once is not enough. It ought to be repeated and repeated in the wonder of God's grace and power, love, soul, and spirit. It is the penultimate word inside the human language in praise of God.
When life is at its best, inside the moment when not one other words suffice, for most people here on this planet, out pops the term "Hallelujah". This elegant and universal utterance captures the essence of celebration and it is immediately understood deeply inside the soul of most.
