#shabbatshalom — Public Fediverse posts
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Shabbat starts 6:50. I'll try to #unplug.
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Shabbat Shalom friends, Sukkot arrives this evening as well and here is the proper greeting in Hebrew.
Chag Sukkot Sameach. May your sukkah be a warm and welcoming shelter filled with peace, good food, and great company 🤗💛
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I Used to Know How to Be Slow
A birthday trip to a sleepy beach town, a skill | lost somewhere between Israel, Portugal, and building a business, and thirty minutes that did not feel small.
hebrewbyinbal.substack.com/p/i-used-to-know-how-to-be-slow?r=2at7n8&utm_medium=ios
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A student sent me this.
Hebrew 1 and Hebrew 2 open on the table. The alphabet chart beside them. Colored pencils and a small handwritten card, in Hebrew, in their own hand, that reads “Shabbat Shalom, Morah.”
“Shabbat Shalom, teacher.”
Not typed, they wrote it. Letters formed slowly by someone who is still learning to form them on the one day of the week made for stopping, in a language thousands of years older than both of us.
There is something I will never get used to about this work. A person somewhere I have never been, in a home I will never see, choosing to spend a piece of their Shabbat with letters I taught them. And then turning around to wish me peace in my own language.
Thank you. You have no idea what this means.
Shabbat Shalom to you too. 💙
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My dad asked me the same question every year, months before the holiday. Are you coming to the dinner?
It took moving an ocean away to understand he was never really asking about dinner.
My reflection for Rosh Hashanah and Shabbat 👇
https://hebrewbyinbal.substack.com/p/are-you-coming-to-the-holiday-dinner?r=2at7n8&utm_medium=ios
Shanah Tovah 💙
#RoshHashanah #ShabbatShalom #JewishNewYear #JewishLife #Family
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Introduction of the Mishneh Torah
#ShabbatShalom
BL Harley 5698; Maimonides (Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, aka the Rambam); Lisbon Mishneh Torah, volume 1; 1471 CE-1472 CE; Portugal (Lisbon); ff.11v-12r @[email protected] -
A Very Special Shabbat Shalom Friends 🕯️🕯
One year.
For fifty two weeks, something quiet and beautiful has been happening on my Facebook page. Every Friday I share a Shabbat greeting, and my community there sends back photographs of Shabbat. I gather them into a montage and send that light back out to everyone.
This week is the last one. And it turned out so lovely that I wanted to share it here too, with all of you, wherever you follow me
Thank you for the candles. The tables set and waiting. The quiet corners of your homes on a Friday evening. You did not just send photographs. You let me see how Shabbat actually lives inside your houses and inside your hearts, and being trusted with that is not a small thing
There is a reason this fit so naturally alongside teaching Hebrew. A language is not really a set of words. It is a way people have found, over thousands of years, to say here I am to one another
Thank you for a year of light.
Shabbat Shalom 💙
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I quit a book this week. What I picked up instead undid me. 💙
Rachel Goldberg-Polin reading her own audiobook about her son Hersh. And the way she describes him, cell by cell, his knees, his lashes, the space between his toes, is a mother who knew her child completely.
They took his future. They took the man he would have become.
But there is one thing they could not touch, and I have not stopped thinking about it since.
This is my Shabbat reflection this week. Please read it. 🕯️
https://hebrewbyinbal.substack.com/p/they-took-hershs-future-they-could?r=2at7n8&utm_medium=ios
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Shabbat Shalom Friends 🕯️🕯️
This marks the 51st Shabbat in a row that I have had the privilege of sharing your beautiful photos and messages in response to my weekly Shabbat greeting. Fifty one weeks. Which means next Friday will be one full year, and it will also be the last Shabbat Shalom montage.
I want to sit with that for a moment before I say anything else.
This tradition started on Facebook, and it grew so quietly beautiful that I began sharing it everywhere I am. Not because it needed a bigger audience, but because something this simple deserves to be seen.
What began as a simple post has become one of the most meaningful things I do. Week after week you brought light into this space. Candles on your tables. Family gathered close. Quiet corners of your homes on a Friday evening. Some of you have been here since the very first one, and some of you joined along the way, and every single image made this what it became.
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Shabbat Shalom Friends 🕯️🕯️
This marks the 50th Shabbat in a row that I have shared your beautiful photos and messages in response to my weekly greeting. Fifty weeks. What began as a simple post has become one of my favorite traditions, and that is entirely because of you.
And this one arrives with something special. We have entered Elul, the final month of the Hebrew year, the quiet stretch of reflection before everything begins again. A month made for exactly what you already do here every week. Pausing. Looking inward. Reaching toward each other.
Reading your comments has become one of my favorite ways to welcome Shabbat. If I ever miss responding it is never intentional, sometimes comments get hidden, but I always feel the spirit behind them 💙
You give me the gift of sharing my passion for teaching Hebrew and for community.
Wishing you a peaceful and meaningful Shabbat, and a beautiful start to Elul.
Shabbat Shalom 💙
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Shabbat Shalom Substack Friends 🕯️🕯️
I posted my Shabbat Reflection this morning and invite you to read it.
https://hebrewbyinbal.substack.com/p/the-second-sentence-what-happens?r=2at7n8&utm_medium=ios
It centers around the question, “But what if?” that has plagued me for years.
If you’re observing, may your Shabbat be meaningful and restful. Happy weekend to all.
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Shabbat Shalom Friends 🕯️🕯️
This marks the 49th Shabbat in a row that I’ve had the privilege of sharing your beautiful photos and messages in response to my weekly Shabbat greeting. What began as a simple post has grown into something far more meaningful than I ever imagined.
And here is what moves me most about it. Not everyone in this community observes Shabbat. Some of you light candles every Friday night as your family has for generations. Some of you come from a different faith entirely. Some of you are simply here for the language, or the culture, or because something in this corner of the internet feels like a good place to land at the end of a long week. And every single one of you belongs here.
Week after week, you bring light, warmth, and connection into this space. Seeing the images you share, whether candles, tables, family moments, or quiet reflections, has turned this into a truly special tradition for our community.
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:two_candles: #Shabbat candle lighting in #KC is 8:03. #ShabbatShalom! :challah:
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These are your images not mine ❤️
Shabbat Shalom Friends 🕯️🕯️
This marks the 48th Shabbat in a row that I’ve had the privilege of sharing your beautiful photos and messages in response to my weekly Shabbat greeting. What began as a simple post has grown into something far more meaningful than I ever imagined.
Week after week, you bring light, warmth, and connection into this space. Seeing the images you share, whether candles, tables, family moments, or quiet reflections has turned this into a truly special tradition for our community.
What started as a collection of lovely photos has become something deeper. Many of you now share glimpses of how Shabbat lives inside your homes and hearts, and it’s incredibly moving to witness those moments. It fills me with gratitude every single week.
Reading your comments has become one of my favorite ways to welcome Shabbat.
Wishing all of you a peaceful and meaningful Shabbat.
Shabbat Shalom 💙
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:two_candles: #KansasCity lights up at 8:13 tonight. #ShabbatShalom! :challah:
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There is something about you that you have learned to say with an apology in front of it. Somebody taught you to.
A woman did that with me a few days ago. We were talking about working together, and she told me that in her previous jobs, she would see what could be better and say so, and it never went well. Then she asked if that was going to be a problem here too
She wasn’t asking. She was warning me
I knew the sentence because I lived it. I was the one who raised the problem nobody wanted raised. I wasn’t trying to be difficult. I just could not ignore what I knew would make the thing truly great. And every time, the temperature dropped a little
The thing she learned to apologize for is the thing greatness is made of
Maybe yours isn’t about work. Are you the one who asks the extra question? Too honest? Too direct? Too invested?
Go back and look at the thing you apologize for. That’s exactly what makes you rare
Shabbat Shalom 💙
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These are your images not mine ❤️
Shabbat Shalom Friends 🕯️🕯️
This marks the 47th Shabbat in a row that I’ve had the privilege of sharing your beautiful photos and messages in response to my weekly Shabbat greeting. What began as a simple post has grown into something far more meaningful than I ever imagined.
Week after week, you bring light, warmth, and connection into this space. Seeing the images you share, whether candles, tables, family moments, or quiet reflections has turned this into a truly special tradition for our community.
What started as a collection of lovely photos has become something deeper. Many of you now share glimpses of how Shabbat lives inside your homes and hearts, and it’s incredibly moving to witness those moments. It fills me with gratitude every single week.
Reading your comments has become one of my favorite ways to welcome Shabbat.
Wishing all of you a peaceful and meaningful Shabbat.
Shabbat Shalom 💙
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Shabbat Shalom Friends. Read my Shabbat reflection here: https://open.substack.com/pub/hebrewbyinbal/p/the-art-is-in-the-interesting-what?r=2at7n8&utm_medium=ios
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Shabbat Shalom Friends 🕯️🕯️
This marks the 46th Shabbat in a row that I’ve had the privilege of sharing your beautiful photos and messages in response to my weekly Shabbat greeting. What began as a simple post has grown into something far more meaningful than I ever imagined.
Week after week, you bring light, warmth, and connection into this space. Seeing the images you share, whether candles, tables, family moments, or quiet reflections has turned this into a truly special tradition for our community.
What started as a collection of lovely photos has become something deeper. Many of you now share glimpses of how Shabbat lives inside your homes and hearts, and it’s incredibly moving to witness those moments. It fills me with gratitude every single week.
Reading your comments has become one of my favorite ways to welcome Shabbat and I’m wishing all of you a peaceful and meaningful Shabbat.
Shabbat Shalom 💙
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Shabbat Shalom Friends 🕯️🕯️
This marks the 45th Shabbat in a row that I’ve had the privilege of sharing your beautiful photos and messages in response to my weekly Shabbat greeting. What began as a simple post has grown into something far more meaningful than I ever imagined.
Week after week, you bring light, warmth, and connection into this space. Seeing the images you share, whether candles, tables, family moments, or quiet reflections has turned this into a truly special tradition for our community.
What started as a collection of lovely photos has become something deeper. Many of you now share glimpses of how Shabbat lives inside your homes and hearts, and it’s incredibly moving to witness those moments. It fills me with gratitude every single week.
Reading your comments has become one of my favorite ways to welcome Shabbat.
Wishing all of you a peaceful and meaningful Shabbat.
Shabbat Shalom 💙
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On the Israeli ‘Married at First Sight’, a husband told the therapist he was waiting for certainty before letting his guard down.
Her answer belongs on billboards. It won’t happen in that order. You let your guard down first. That’s the only way it can come in.
Every big thing that changed my life happened in the “wrong” order. I jumped before I felt ready.
Ready doesn’t come first. It comes after.
Shabbat Shalom 💙
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Shabbat Shalom Friends 🕯️🕯️
This marks the 44th Shabbat in a row that I’ve had the privilege of sharing the beautiful photos and messages in response to my weekly Shabbat greeting. What began as a simple post has grown into something far more meaningful than I ever imagined.
And today is an especially rare and beautiful one. Shabbat and the 4th of July arriving hand in hand, on America’s 250th birthday no less. As an Israeli who has made her home here this day holds both of my worlds at once, the sacred rest of my heritage and the freedom of my adopted home with the deep bonds between the Jewish and American stories shining through. Two celebrations of light, one very full heart. 🇺🇸🕯️
Week after week, you bring light, warmth, and connection into this space.
Wishing all of you a peaceful and meaningful Shabbat and a very happy 4th of July ☀️🎆
Shabbat Shalom 💙
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Then work backward from it. One small choice built around how you want to feel, not just what you think you’re supposed to do.
None of this is about doing more. It’s about choosing on purpose instead of drifting into whatever the day throws at you first.
Small. On purpose. Again tomorrow.
Shabbat Shalom 💙
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Shabbat Shalom, friends. 🕯️🕯️
This is the 43rd Shabbat in a row that I have had the privilege of sharing photos and messages in response to my weekly Shabbat greeting. What began as a simple post has quietly become one of the most meaningful traditions in my week.
Every Friday my online community is filled with light. Candles. Tables. Family moments and quiet reflections. Somewhere along the way it stopped being just a collection of beautiful images and became something deeper, a window into how Shabbat actually lives inside your homes and your hearts. Witnessing that week after week moves me more than I know how to say.
Reading the comments has become one of my favorite ways to welcome Shabbat, along with resharing the images you send in. I feel connected to each person who shares on this sacred day.
As we head into July and the heart of summer, I am wishing you a peaceful, restful, and meaningful Shabbat. Take your pause. You belong here.
Shabbat Shalom ❤️
