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Hallelujah! The strength of the term
haleluja - A minister I knew once questioned the depth or "the soul" of your song I wrote as it was " music of largely just Hallelujahs". Today I want to take the time about this issue and check out the phrase "Hallelujah" in certain depth.
Its etymology is from the Hebrew and means "Praise Jah" or "Praise God". Strangely 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. Therefore it is a thing whose four syllables mean the same thing to the majority of of mankind. The word almost any place in Africa and they know how you feel. Hardly any words translate this way. Consider the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in their pronunciation and spelling in translation. "Hallelujah" is actually universal.
haleluja - I understand 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, this is a gorgeous utterance to sing 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'm most filled with the spirit of God, these are the words that spill from me over and over since the melodies pour through me from God. Repeatedly, "Hallelujah". It happens so frequently that I have to rewrite the lyrics into simple terms, otherwise nearly all of my songs would sing just "Hallelujahs".
A man named George Fredric Handel used it 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 the great gift to mankind since the same word cascaded in the choir?
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For your Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Certainly not comparing myself to Frederic Handel, I too used these words to great effect inside a song that opened the performance from the Jenny Burton Experience which ran to out of stock audiences for over seven years within New york.
Let's begin with a Hallelujah
Let's begin with a Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
There is music within our lives
There's music up all around us
There's a spirit in our lives
And also the music as well as the spirit is one
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
An easy statement, however with the weight and power this unique word you can be certain the audiences knew in which i was using the inspirational aim of the performance. It set the spirit with the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly to the whole world of spiritual thought.
haleluja - What is a word but an emblem to have an idea. These sounds which come out of our mouths represent concepts big or small. Say the word "streetcar" so we know precisely everything you mean. Repeat the word "God" and you'll have as much definitions of the word as you have listeners. But say the word "Hallelujah" as well as the world is suddenly all for a passing fancy page plus some way feeling and knowing the light that you're experiencing. It's a word that bears repetition, no, actually, clamors for repetition, for to express it once is not enough. It ought to be repeated and repeated within 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, within the moment when not one other words suffice, for many people here in the world, out pops the word "Hallelujah". This elegant and universal utterance captures the essence of celebration and it is immediately understood deeply inside the soul of most.
