#shabbatshalom — Public Fediverse posts
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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 ❤️
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There is a kind of tired that sleep fixes, and a kind it doesn’t.
When you rest and wake up still carrying the heaviness, that might not be tired at all. That might be empty. And empty does not lift with more sleep. It lifts the moment you stop leaving yourself out.
So this Shabbat, put one small piece of the thing that is truly yours back into your week. The thing you would do even if no one ever knew. Not more sleep. A little more of you. 💙
Shabbat Shalom.
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Shabbat Shalom, friends 🤍
This marks the 42nd Shabbat in a row that I’ve had the privilege of sharing beautiful photos and images posted in response to my weekly Shabbat greeting on Social Media. 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 & meaningful Shabbat and to all of the FATHERS here, HAPPY FATHER’S DAY ❤️
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Shabbat shalom from me to you. 🍷
There is something I have carried with me my whole life from Tel Aviv to here and it is this. No matter how full or how heavy the week was, Shabbat arrives and gently tells you to put it down. To pause. To raise a glass to everything you survived and everything you are grateful for.
So here I am glass in hand, wishing you rest that actually feels like rest. A table surrounded by people who know you. And a moment this weekend where you let yourself simply be.
You earned this pause. Take it.
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You're not as alone as this week tried to make you feel.
I know how easy it is to believe otherwise.
When the days run together and it feels like no one really sees you, the mind starts whispering that you're on your own in this.
You're not.
We were never meant to do life alone.
That pull toward other people isn't weakness, and it isn't neediness. It's wired into us, as deep as hunger, as old as breath. When we go too long without each other, something in us starts to ache for it.
That ache isn't a flaw. It's a compass. And finding your way back is often smaller than you'd think.
One word. One greeting. One conversation you weren't sure you belonged in, until suddenly you did. Connection doesn't always arrive as a crowd. Sometimes it's a single door opening, and you walking through it.
So this Shabbat, don't let the week convince you.
There are people who would know you anywhere. There's a table waiting for you.
You belong here.
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Shabbat Shalom, friends 🤍
This marks the 41st Shabbat in a row that I’ve had the privilege of sharing beautiful photos and messages that are sent in response to my weekly Shabbat greeting on FB. 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.
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People ask me how Israelis live with it. The missiles. The sirens. The wars that just keep coming.
And I always come back to the same answer. Some of the most human moments of my entire life happened inside those sirens. In shelters and hallways with strangers who became something more in the space of a few terrifying minutes.
Joy and horror in the same breath. That is something I carry everywhere I go.
I wrote about it today and I think it will stay with you.
Shabbat Shalom. 🕯️🇮🇱
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Shabbat Shalom, friends 🤍
This marks the 40th 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 and a wonderful Month of June ❤️
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One of my favorite expressions in Hebrew is:
כְּשֶׁיֵּשׁ סָפֵק אֵין סָפֵק
/k-she-’yesh sa-’fek ’e(y)-n sa-’fek/
When in doubt, there is no doubt.
The doubt itself is often the answer.
We spend so much time trying to talk ourselves out of what we already know. Looking for reassurance. Hoping someone else will make it feel right.
But doubt is not the same as fear.
Some of the best decisions I’ve ever made scared me. They pushed me beyond my comfort zone and into growth. Fear can be part of something wonderful.
Doubt feels different. It’s quieter. Heavier. It doesn’t demand attention. It simply waits for you to listen.
The more you learn to recognize the difference, the clearer life becomes.
Your intuition usually knows long before your mind catches up.
כְּשֶׁיֵּשׁ סָפֵק אֵין סָפֵק
When in doubt, there is no doubt.
Shabbat Shalom,
Inbal 🤍
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Shabbat Shalom, friends 🤍
This marks the 39th 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 and a wonderful Month of June ahead ❤️
