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Hallelujah! The effectiveness of the term
haleluja - A minister I knew once questioned the depth or "the soul" of the song I wrote as it was " a song of largely just Hallelujahs". Today I want to take the time on this issue and look at the term "Hallelujah" in some 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 word "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 also on as well as on like this. So it's anything whose four syllables have a similar meaning to many of mankind. Say the word almost anywhere in Africa and they understand how you are feeling. Very few words translate this way. Consider the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in the 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. With its four open vowels, this is a gorgeous utterance to sing and when sung alone or surrounded by itself and repeated repeatedly it's the epitome word of celebration in human language. I've found that when I'm writing a sacred song that i'm most filled with the spirit of God, these are the basic words that spill out of me repeatedly as the melodies pour through me from God. Again and again, "Hallelujah". It occurs so frequently which i have to rewrite the lyrics into other words, otherwise nearly all of my songs would sing nothing but "Hallelujahs".
A guy named George Fredric Handel put on the extender to musically summarize his penultimate tribute towards the birth of Christ inside the finale of his "Messiah". Who may have not sat in wonder on the singing of this great gift to mankind since the same word cascaded from 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 in the song that opened the performance with the Jenny Burton Experience which ran to out of stock audiences for upwards of seven years here in New york.
Let's move on with a Hallelujah
Let's start with a Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
There's music in our lives
There is music up all over
There is a spirit within our lives
And also the music as well as the spirit are one
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
An easy statement, however with the load and power of this unique word you can be sure the audiences knew wherever we were using 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 with an idea. These sounds that come away from our mouths represent concepts large or small. The word "streetcar" and that we know precisely what you mean. Say the word "God" you'll also find as numerous definitions of this word because you have listeners. But repeat the word "Hallelujah" and also the world is suddenly all on the same page as well as in one method or another feeling and having 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 should 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, in the moment when not one other words suffice, for most people here on this planet, out pops the term "Hallelujah". This elegant and universal utterance captures the essence of celebration and is immediately understood deeply in the soul of.
