#shalomaleichem — Public Fediverse posts

📖 Tevye the Dairyman & Motl the Cantor's Son 📚

As a big fan of Fiddler on the Roof, I decided I should read the original Tevye stories. First published in 1894, Tevye 'tells' Aleichem the tales of his family, focusing on six of his seven daughters, Tzeitel, Chava, Hodel, Shprintze, Taybele, and Bielke. I was surprised by how different these tales proved to be from musical.
But the highlight here is the delightful adventures of the 'orphan' Motl in Aleichem's unfinished novel Motl and the Cantor's Son. These tales take us on the journey from poverty in the Shtetl, across Europe to the promise land of America. Motls' take on life is endearing and funny. I am amazed that these stories have never made it to film!

#tevyethedairyman #motlthecantorsson #shalomaleichem #fiddlerontheroof #tevye #tevyeandhisdaughters #books #book #mybookshelf #mybooklist #reading #booklist #readinglist #livre #buch #libro #libros #novel #novela #livres #bücher #judaica #shtetllife #shtetl

And on that note,
#ShabbatShalom
#GutShabbos
#shalomAleichem
#asSalaamAlaikum
#PeaceBeWithYou
#happySaturday
#GoodNightFriends

/end

But there were greetings w/ similar function in earlier stages of Hebrew. Biblical figures greet eah other with “shalom lekah” (=peace to you (singular)). “Shalom alekah” (=peace upon you (singular)) is first attested in a Dead Sea Scroll (sometime before 30 BCE). The now standard greeting (and Shabbat prayer) #shalomAleichem” (=peace be upon you (plural)) appeared by 500 CE (and was later borrowed into Yiddish as “sholem aleychem,” which may very well precede the greeting “gut Shabbos”);

35/