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Hallelujah! The strength of the term
haleluja - A minister I knew once questioned the depth or "the soul" of the song I wrote since it was " music of largely just Hallelujahs". Today I want to spend some time on this issue and check out the term "Hallelujah" in a few depth.
Its etymology originates from the Hebrew and means "Praise Jah" or "Praise God". Oddly enough, this is a word that circumnavigates the world 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" as well as on and also on like that. Therefore it is anything whose four syllables mean the same thing to the majority of of mankind. The word almost around Africa and so they know how you're feeling. Hardly any words translate like that. Consider perhaps the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in its pronunciation and spelling in translation. "Hallelujah" is truly 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. Having its four open vowels, it is a gorgeous utterance to sing and when sung alone or encompassed by itself and repeated repeatedly oahu is the epitome word of celebration in human language. I have found that whenever I'm writing a sacred song and i'm most filled up with the spirit of God, fundamental essentials words that spill away from me repeatedly because the melodies pour through me from God. Again and again, "Hallelujah". It occurs so often i must rewrite the lyrics into simple terms, otherwise the majority of my songs would sing only "Hallelujahs".
A person named George Fredric Handel used it to musically summarize his penultimate tribute to the birth of Christ within the finale of his "Messiah". That has not sat in wonder on the singing with this great gift to mankind as the same word cascaded from your choir?
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For that Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Certainly not comparing myself to Frederic Handel, I too used these words to great effect in the song that opened the performance of The Jenny Burton Experience which ran to sold out audiences for over seven years here in New York City.
Let's move on using a Hallelujah
Let's start out with a Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
There is music inside our lives
There is music up everywhere
There's a spirit in our lives
And the music as well as the spirit are one
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
A simple statement, however with the weight and power of this unique word you can be sure the audiences knew wherever i was choosing the inspirational intention of the performance. It set the spirit with the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly in to the realm of spiritual thought.
haleluja - What is a word but a symbol with an idea. These sounds that come from our mouths represent concepts small or large. Repeat the word "streetcar" so we know precisely everything you mean. The word "God" and you'll have as many definitions of the word as you have listeners. But repeat the word "Hallelujah" and the world is suddenly all on a single page as well as in some way feeling and having the light that you're experiencing. It is a word that bears repetition, no, in reality, clamors for repetition, for to say it once just isn't enough. It must be repeated and repeated inside the wonder of God's grace and power, love, soul, and spirit. Oahu is the penultimate word in the human language in praise of God.
When every day life is at its best, in the moment when not one other words suffice, for many people here on this planet, out pops the phrase "Hallelujah". This elegant and universal utterance captures the essence of celebration and is also immediately understood deeply inside the soul of most.
