Shalom Zachar

This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Shalom Zachar" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Shalom Zachar

A Shalom Zachar is celebrated on the first Friday night after the birth of a baby boy
Halakhic texts relating to this article
Babylonian Talmud:	Niddah 30b
Shulchan Aruch:	Rema: Yoreh De'ah 265:12
Other rabbinic codes:	Taz: Yoreh De'ah 265:13; Terumat HaDeshen 269; Zocher HaBris 3:6; Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 163:8

A Shalom Zachar (also: Sholom Zochor, Shulem Zucher, Hebrew: שלום זכר; trans. Welcoming the male; lit. Peace be upon the male), is a gathering which takes place in Ashkenazi Jewish circles on the first Friday night after a baby boy is born. Although intended to "console" the newborn, the get-together is treated as a happy occasion.