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Hallelujah! The effectiveness of the term
haleluja - A minister I knew once questioned the depth or "the soul" of a song I wrote since it was " a song of largely just Hallelujahs". Today I want to take a moment on this issue and check out the term "Hallelujah" in certain depth.
Its etymology originates from the Hebrew and means "Praise Jah" or "Praise God". Oddly enough, it's a word that circumnavigates the world and spans most languages. When translated, the phrase "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 also on and also on like this. Therefore it is a thing whose four syllables have a similar meaning to most of mankind. Say the word almost any place in Africa and so they know how you are feeling. Not many words translate this way. Consider perhaps the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in their pronunciation and spelling in translation. "Hallelujah" is really universal.
haleluja - I understand of not one other word in language or song that carries such joy, such celebration, such depth of spirit and soul. With its four open vowels, it is a gorgeous utterance to sing so when sung alone or flanked by itself and repeated repeatedly it is the epitome word of celebration in human language. I find that whenever I'm writing a sacred song and I am 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 happens so frequently which i must rewrite the lyrics into other words, otherwise nearly all of my songs would sing just "Hallelujahs".
A man named George Fredric Handel put on the extender to musically summarize his penultimate tribute to the birth of Christ inside the finale of his "Messiah". Who may have not sat in wonder on the singing with this great gift to mankind because the same word cascaded from your 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 a song that opened the performance with the Jenny Burton Experience which ran to sold out audiences for over seven years in Nyc.
Let's move on with a Hallelujah
Let's start out with a Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
There is music within our lives
There's music in mid-air all around us
There's a spirit in our lives
And also the music and the spirit is one
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
A straightforward statement, but with the load and power of this phenomenal word it is certain the audiences knew in which we had been choosing the inspirational aim of the performance. It set the spirit with the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly in to the whole world of spiritual thought.
haleluja - Just what word but an emblem for an idea. These sounds that can come out of our mouths represent concepts big or small. Repeat the word "streetcar" and that we know precisely what you mean. Say the word "God" you'll also find as much definitions of this word because you have listeners. But repeat the word "Hallelujah" and also the world is suddenly all for a passing fancy page as well as in some way feeling and understanding the light that you're experiencing. It's a word that bears repetition, no, actually, clamors for repetition, for to state it once is not 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 inside the human language in praise of God.
When life's at its best, in the moment when not one 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 within the soul of all.
