[ANON POST] Jewish blessings

[kutsuwamushi]

I have a modern-day American Reform rabbi who's saying goodbye to some people she cares about (both Jewish and not) who're going off to fight with the forces of the Big Bad. Is there some sort of goodbye/do good things/try not to get killed blessing she would say to them? I've been looking at Hebrew blessings and farewells, but I haven't been able

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[reconditarmonia]

"Yasher"/"Yishar koach," "may you have strength," is what occurred to me, though you may find that the cluster of other associations around it (it's used around honors in synagogue, such as aliyot) makes it undesirable.

[sethg_prime]

The Talmud (Berachot 64a) quotes rabbis who recommend saying “lekh l’shalom” (“go to peace; go peacefully”) when saying goodbye to a friend who is alive, and “lekh b’shalom” (“go in peace”) to someone who is dead.

[ebonyabt]

Thank you for sharing

[ichur72]

A common remark to people who are leaving on a journey is "Tzeischem l'shalom" (or "Tzeitchem l'shalom," if you want the Sephardi and not the Ashkenazi pronunciation). It means, roughly, "go forth to peace."