This idea was taken from Orh Sameach site…
Everyone wants peace. Every person wants to sit under his fig tree, secure that no one will come and take away his family and his money. Yet almost since the beginning of time, peace has been elusive, and often, illusory.
If there’s one Hebrew word that everyone knows, it’s shalom. “Peace.” Shalom is the Hebrew form of greeting. Why do we greet others with shalom?
The Talmud tells us that it is forbidden to say shalom in a bathhouse, because Shalom is G-d’s name, and thus not fitting to be uttered in a bathhouse.
What does it mean that G-d’s name is Shalom?
Real shalom doesn’t exist in this world because shalom means perfection, completion. This world was created lacking. That’s the way it’s meant to be. This world strives to arrive somewhere beyond itself for its completion.
The Hebrew word for the “earth” is aretz, from the root “ratz,” “to run,” because this world is always running, moving towards its completion. However its completion can come only from above, from Heaven. The word “Heaven” in Hebrew is shamayim, from the root “sham” which means “there.” This world is always “running” to “there” – outside and beyond itself.
This world contains many wonderful things, but perfection isn’t one of them. Perfection is beyond the scope of creation.
This is why G-d’s name is Shalom. G-d is the Perfection of all the lacking of this world. Every single thing in this world finds its perfection, its fulfillment, in Him. It’s not here. It’s above. It’s “there.”
Good Shabbos
