[Sca-cooks] online translations aren't

Avraham haRofeh goldberg at bestweb.net
Sun Sep 29 18:14:50 PDT 2002


> I am looking up sites that will have *Shalom*  meaning welcome or *Baruch
> HaBah*  Welcome to my home... If you can send me your snail mail address,
I
> can write it out for you on paper.

"Baruch HaBah" doesn't mean "Welcome to my home", at least not literally. It
means "Blessed are the comers" or "Blessings on those who come here".
Idiomatically, it may be used that way, but let's be accurate. Hebrew
doesn't have a single word meaning "welcome", only idioms that convey the
same thought.

Avraham

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