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Hallelujah! The Power 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 Let me take a moment about this issue and consider the word "Hallelujah" in a few depth.
Its etymology originates from the Hebrew and means "Praise Jah" or "Praise God". Strangely enough, it's a word that circumnavigates the globe and spans most languages. When translated, the phrase "Hallelujah" (or sometimes "Alleluia") continues to be 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 on like that. So it's anything whose four syllables mean the same thing to most of mankind. Say the word almost anywhere in Africa and so they discover how you feel. 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 really universal.
haleluja - I am aware 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 is a gorgeous utterance to sing and when sung alone or surrounded by itself and repeated over and over it's the epitome word of celebration in human language. I have found that when I'm writing a sacred song that i'm most filled up with the spirit of God, fundamental essentials words that spill away from me again and again as the melodies pour through me from God. Again and again, "Hallelujah". It happens so often which i need to rewrite the lyrics into other words, otherwise the majority of my songs would sing only "Hallelujahs".
A person named George Fredric Handel tried on the extender to musically summarize his penultimate tribute for the birth of Christ in the finale of his "Messiah". Who has not sat in wonder on the singing of this great gift to mankind since the same word cascaded from your choir?
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For the 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 from the Jenny Burton Experience which ran to sold-out audiences for more than seven years here in New York City.
Let's begin with a Hallelujah
Let's begin with a Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
There is music within our lives
There is certainly music in the air everywhere
There's a spirit inside our lives
And the music as well as the spirit are certainly one
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
A straightforward statement, though the load and power of this unique word you can be certain the audiences knew exactly where we were going with the inspirational goal of the performance. It set the spirit of the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly into the realm of spiritual thought.
haleluja - What is a word but a symbol to have an idea. These sounds that can come away from our mouths represent concepts small or large. Say the word "streetcar" so we understand specifically everything you mean. Say the word "God" and you will have as numerous definitions of the word as you've listeners. But repeat the word "Hallelujah" and the world is suddenly all for a passing fancy page and in one method or another feeling and knowing the light that you are experiencing. It's a word that bears repetition, no, in reality, clamors for repetition, for to say it once is not enough. It ought to 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, in the moment when few other words suffice, for many 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.
