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shalom aleichem
[ Sephardic Hebrew shah-lawm ah-le-khem; Ashkenazic Hebrew shaw-luhm ah-ley-khem, ah-ley-khem, shah-lohm ]
interjection
- peace to you: a conventional Jewish greeting, the reply being aleichem shalom.
shalom aleichem
/ 蕛蓹藞l蓲m 蓹藞le瑟x蓹m; 蕛a藞l蓴m a藞lex蓻m /
interjection
- peace be to you: used by Jews as a greeting or farewell Often shortened toshalom
Example Sentences
鈥淏ut the most memorable part of the trip happened back at the hotel bar, where Egyptian musicians were playing 鈥楬aveinu Shalom Aleichem鈥 and other Israeli songs of peace,鈥 he said.
The band played 鈥淪halom Aleichem鈥 and then a klezmer song as congregants danced the hora.
Bess grew up in the Shalom Aleichem Cooperative Houses in the northwest Bronx, surrounded by artists, poets and novelists.
"Joe said it was too big and had too many characters but we dug out other pieces by the same author, Shalom Aleichem. We found a book of short stories called Teyve's Daughters: that's where Fiddler came from."
"Shalom aleichem," Imam Ali replied, repeating the same greeting - Peace be with you - in Hebrew, a brother Semitic language.
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