What is the source for the greeting "שבת שלום"?
Where is it earliest attested in print?
What does it mean?
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It's at least as old as the Sh'la (around 1600), according to Taame Haminhagim, kuntres acharon 94 to paragraph 396, which says in the Sh'la's name, via the Baer Hetev OC 307:2: "Someone visiting his friend on Shabas should not say, e.g., 'good morning' as on a weekday, but rather 'shabas shalom' or 'shabas tov', to fulfill 'zachor es yom hashabas'." It may, of course, be older; perhaps someone else has more info. |
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It is prescribed in שער הכוונות (Sha'ar Hakavanos, published in the sixteenth century) for the reasons mentioned by msh210. |
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