Texts: Gut Shabbos

Posted by: Gil Student in Musings, Posts, Texts Mar 7, 19 0

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How old is the phrase “Good Shabbos”? I don’t know but as early as 1426, we know that Maharil said it on a regular Shabbos. When his wife died in that year (a year before his passing), on that Shabbos he did not bless the children in his community and did not — as he normally did — wish people “שבת טוב,” which in this Hebrew work is the equivalent of the Yiddish, “Gut Shabbos.”

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Rabbi Gil Student is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of TorahMusings.com, a leading website on Orthodox Jewish scholarly subjects, and the Book Editor of the Orthodox Union’s Jewish Action magazine. He writes a popular column on issues of Jewish law and thought featured in newspapers and magazines, including The Jewish Link of New Jersey, The Jewish Echo and The Vues. In the past, he has served as the President of the small Jewish publisher Yashar Books and as the Managing Editor of OU Press. Rabbi Student recently served on the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Council of America and currently serves as Director of the Halacha Commission of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. He also serves on the Editorial Board of Jewish Action magazine and the Board of OU Press. He has published five English books, the most recent titled Search Engine volume 2: Finding Meaning in Jewish Texts -- Jewish Leadership, and served as the American editor for Morasha Kehillat Yaakov: Essays in Honour of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks.

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