What is the source for the greeting "שבת שלום"?
Where is it earliest attested in print?
What does it mean?
Answer
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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