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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 because it was " a song of largely just Hallelujahs". Today Let me take a moment about this issue and consider the term "Hallelujah" in certain depth.
Its etymology comes 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 word "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 on and also on like that. So it is a word whose four syllables mean the same thing to many of mankind. The word almost anywhere in Africa and so they understand how you feel. Not many words translate like that. Consider perhaps the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in the pronunciation and spelling in translation. "Hallelujah" is truly universal.
haleluja - I know of no other word in language or song that carries such joy, such celebration, such depth of spirit and soul. Using its four open vowels, it is a gorgeous utterance to sing so when sung alone or flanked by itself and repeated over and over it's the epitome word of celebration in human language. I have found that after I'm writing a sacred song and I am most full of the spirit of God, these are the basic words that spill away from me repeatedly because the melodies pour through me from God. Again and again, "Hallelujah". It happens frequently that I need to rewrite the lyrics into simple terms, otherwise nearly all of my songs would sing only "Hallelujahs".
A person named George Fredric Handel used it to musically summarize his penultimate tribute for the birth of Christ inside the finale of his "Messiah". Who has not sat in wonder at the singing with this great gift to mankind because the same word cascaded from your 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 New york.
Let's move on having a Hallelujah
Let's start with a Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
There is music inside our lives
There is music in the air everywhere
There exists a spirit inside our lives
And also the music and the spirit are one
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
An easy statement, however with the load and energy this unique word you can be certain the audiences knew exactly where i was going with the inspirational aim of the performance. It set the spirit of the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly in to the arena of spiritual thought.
haleluja - Exactly what is a word but an emblem with an idea. These sounds that can come away from our mouths represent concepts small or large. The word "streetcar" so we know exactly that which you mean. Say the word "God" and you will have as much definitions of the word because you have listeners. But say the word "Hallelujah" and also the world is suddenly all on the same page and in some way feeling and having the light that you will be experiencing. This is a word that bears repetition, no, in reality, clamors for repetition, for to express it once is not enough. It must be repeated and repeated inside the wonder of God's grace and power, love, soul, and spirit. It's the penultimate word in the human language in praise of God.
When life's at its best, within the moment when few other words suffice, for most of us here on the earth, 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 all.
