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Hallelujah! The Power of the phrase
haleluja - A minister I knew once questioned the depth or "the soul" of a song I wrote as it was " an audio lesson of largely just Hallelujahs". Today I want to spend some time on this issue and look at the term "Hallelujah" in certain depth.
Its etymology comes from the Hebrew and means "Praise Jah" or "Praise God". Strangely enough, it's a word that circumnavigates the world and spans most languages. When translated, the term "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" as well as on and on that way. So it's a word whose four syllables have a similar meaning to many of mankind. Say the word almost around Africa plus they understand how you are feeling. Not many words translate this way. Consider the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in their pronunciation and spelling in translation. "Hallelujah" is really universal.
haleluja - I know 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, it's 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 find that after I'm writing a sacred song that i'm most filled up with the spirit of God, these are the basic words that spill from me over and over because the melodies pour through me from God. Over and over again, "Hallelujah". It occurs frequently which i have to rewrite the lyrics into other words, otherwise nearly all of my songs would sing only "Hallelujahs".
A person named George Fredric Handel put on the extender to musically summarize his penultimate tribute towards the birth of Christ in 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 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 the song that opened the performance with the Jenny Burton Experience which ran to sold out audiences for over seven years here in Nyc.
Let's begin with a Hallelujah
Let's start out with a Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
There is certainly music in our lives
There is certainly music in the air everywhere
There's a spirit within our lives
And also the music and also the spirit are one
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
A simple statement, but with the body weight and power of this phenomenal word you can be certain the audiences knew wherever we were using the inspirational aim of the performance. It set the spirit of the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly to the realm of spiritual thought.
haleluja - Exactly what is a word but symbolic to have an idea. These sounds which come away from our mouths represent concepts big or small. The word "streetcar" and that we know precisely everything you mean. Repeat the word "God" you'll also find as numerous definitions of the word as you've listeners. But repeat the word "Hallelujah" and also the world is suddenly all for a passing fancy page and in a way feeling and understanding the light that you are experiencing. It is a word that bears repetition, no, in fact, clamors for repetition, for to express it once is not enough. It should be repeated and repeated inside 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 every day life is at its best, inside the moment when no other words suffice, for most of us here on this planet, out pops the word "Hallelujah". This elegant and universal utterance captures the essence of celebration and is immediately understood deeply within the soul of most.
