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God\u2019s promise to Abraham (Gen 15:15): \u201cYou shall go to your fathers \u05d1\u05e9\u05dc\u05d5\u05dd, <\/span>beshalom,<\/span><\/em> in peace; You shall be buried at a ripe old age.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Even though \u201cshalom\u201d is not a major theme of this chapter, yesterday\u2019s chapter\u2019s theme and word was <\/span>milchamah<\/span><\/em>, war; and this verse is the first mention of shalom, this otherwise ubiquitous word, in the Tanakh.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u05e9\u05dc\u05d5\u05dd “Shalom” is one of those familiar Hebrew words the world over. This is not really due to the importance of peace in the Middle East, but because \u05e9\u05dc\u05d5\u05dd “shalom” is also used as a greeting and a parting. It’s the first lesson in Hebrew 101: it means “hello,” “goodbye,” and “peace.” Which is fine \u2013 though it makes it hard to translate the Beatles. “You say shalom, and I say shalom. Shalom, shalom! I don’t know why you say shalom, I say shalom\u2026”<\/span><\/p>\n

President Bill Clinton famously used it in 1995, in his moving two-word farewell to assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, saying in Hebrew \u05e9\u05dc\u05d5\u05dd, \u05d7\u05d1\u05e8 “<\/span>Shalom, chaver<\/span><\/em>” \u2013 “Farewell, friend.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Hebrew goes the greeting one step further, with a common opener being “<\/span>Shalom – mah shlomcha<\/span><\/em>?” literally, “Peace – what is your peace?” or more colloquially, “Hello, how are you?” The second use of the root \u05e9-\u05dc-\u05de <\/span>sh-l-m<\/span><\/em> there refers to a person’s “wholeness” or health \u2013 just as the phrase to “hail” someone originates from words meaning hale, healthy, and whole. <\/span><\/p>\n

The root \u05e9-\u05dc-\u05de sh-l-m appears in a range of personal names in Hebrew. While naming your child “Peace” in English would brand you a hippie flower-parent, \u201cShalom\u201d as a name is common: Shalom Hanoch, the aging Israeli rocker; popular novelist Shalom Auslander; or Yiddish writer Shalom Aleichem, (which was actually a pen name: his real name was Shalom Naumovich Rabinovich). <\/span><\/p>\n

Solomon in Hebrew is Shlomo, “his peace” (or perhaps “His peace” referring to God) and other related names include: Shlomi, Meshulam, and the female names Shlomit, and Shulamit \u2013 this last was my late mother’s name, \u05e2\u05dc\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05e9\u05dc\u05d5\u05dd <\/span>aleha hashalom<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>“peace be upon her,” a phrase used when speaking of the deceased.<\/span><\/p>\n

On a different note, another related name is the Biblical Shelumiel, the son of Tzurishaddai (appearing in Numbers 1:6). This name will forever be associated with its Yiddish incarnation as <\/span>schlemiel<\/span><\/em>, an “awkward bungler” or “inept, luckless loser.” It’s not clear why this name was chosen for that characterization, but its popularization was due in part to being the name of the hapless hero of Adalbert von Chamisso’s German fable “The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl” (1813). The personality has become a complete cultural type, as documented in Ruth Wisse’s \u201cThe Schlemiel as Modern Hero\u201d (1971).<\/span><\/p>\n

Like many Hebrew roots, the many variations and uses of shalom make it hard to know whether you’re coming or going. 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