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Hallelujah! The strength of the Word
haleluja - A minister I knew once questioned the depth or "the soul" of your song I wrote since it was " a song of largely just Hallelujahs". Today I want to spend some time with this issue and look at the term "Hallelujah" in some depth.
Its etymology originates from the Hebrew and means "Praise Jah" or "Praise God". Oddly enough, it is a word that circumnavigates the planet 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 like this. So it's a word whose four syllables have a similar meaning to many of mankind. Repeat the word almost any place in Africa and they understand how you're feeling. Very few words translate like that. 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 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 oahu is the epitome word of celebration in human language. I've found that when I'm writing a sacred song and I am most full of the spirit of God, these are the basic words that spill from me again and again as the melodies pour through me from God. Again and again, "Hallelujah". It occurs frequently which i need to rewrite the lyrics into other words, otherwise the majority of my songs would sing nothing but "Hallelujahs".
A guy named George Fredric Handel tried on the extender to musically summarize his penultimate tribute for the birth of Christ within the finale of his "Messiah". Who may have not sat in wonder on the singing of the great gift to mankind as the same word cascaded from your choir?
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For that Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
By no means 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 over seven years here in New york.
Let's move on having a Hallelujah
Let's start out with a Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
There's music within our lives
There is certainly music in mid-air all over
There is a spirit within our lives
And the music and the spirit is one
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
A straightforward statement, but with the load and energy this amazing word you can be certain the audiences knew in which we were going with the inspirational goal of the performance. It set the spirit from the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly to the arena of spiritual thought.
haleluja - Exactly what is a word but symbolic to have an idea. These sounds which come from our mouths represent concepts big or small. Repeat the word "streetcar" so we know exactly that which you mean. Repeat the word "God" and you'll have as many definitions of the word as you have listeners. But the word "Hallelujah" and the world is suddenly all on the same page as well as in one method or another feeling and understanding the light that you're experiencing. It's a word that bears repetition, no, actually, clamors for repetition, for to say it once just isn't enough. It should be repeated and repeated in the wonder of God's grace and power, love, soul, and spirit. Oahu is the penultimate word in the human language in praise of God.
When life's at its best, in the moment when not one other words suffice, for most people here in the world, out pops the phrase "Hallelujah". This elegant and universal utterance captures the essence of celebration and is immediately understood deeply in the soul of all.
