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

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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.

#ShabbatShalom #peace #judaism #SaturdayVibes

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.

https://open.substack.com/pub/hebrewbyinbal/p/what-living-under-missiles-taught?r=2at7n8&utm_medium=ios

Shabbat Shalom. 🕯️🇮🇱

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