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This week Shavuot and Shabbat arrive as one.

And I love this holiday for so many reasons.

But maybe the one I love most is how differently it lives in different people.

Ask people what is Shavuot about.

Some will tell you it's cheesecake and pashtida - a savory quiche.

For others it is entirely about the Torah. The receiving of it. What that means. What it asks of us.

For some it is about the land. The first fruits. The harvest. The most ancient, grounded version of this holiday that connects us to something we can hold in our hands.

And for others it is a time of something quieter and more internal - tikkun, repair. Of the self. Of the world.

Same holiday. So many ways to live inside it.

I think that says something beautiful about us as a people.

That we can each find our own door into the same moment and walk through it in a way that is completely ours.

חַג שָׁבוּעוֹת שָׂמֵחַ Happy Shavuot Holiday

וְשַׁבַּת שָׁלוֹם And Shabbat Shalom

Inbal

5 days ago | [YT] | 684

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יום ירושלים שמח
yom ye-roo-sha-'la-yeem sa-'me-akh
Happy Jerusalem Day

I grew up an hour away and it always felt like a different country.

The stone everywhere. The winding streets I never figured out how to navigate. The people, the sounds, the slang that wasn't quite mine. Every visit felt like landing somewhere ancient and alive at the same time.

Tel Aviv is home. Jerusalem is something else entirely.

The city where history didn't end. Where three religions pray, sing, and ache for the same stones. And where even an Israeli can feel like a tourist.

There is no city like it in the world.

💙🇮🇱

1 week ago (edited) | [YT] | 704

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Figuring things out has a weight to it that no one talks about.

Which curtain rod works with which fabric. If the rings should be clip or sewn. How high above the window, how far past it on each side. Whether the fabric is heavy enough to hang right, or will just bunch awkwardly and look nothing like the picture.

And that's just to have a curtain in the bedroom.

How to cook healthier - on a budget, in under 40 minutes, with enough protein, not too much salt or sugar, and still have everyone at the table actually eat it.

What to do when your kid is struggling and you're not sure if you're handling it right or making it worse.

What to do next.

How to do it.

When.

Whether you're doing it right.

What to do when something comes up that you didn't expect.

And then what to do after that.

I built Hebrew by Inbal alone for a long time. And for a long time it actually served me, and my personality - moving at my own pace, trusting my gut, no one telling me what to do, or how to do it.

There was a freedom in it that served me well.

But freedom and weight can exist in the same place.

And when you carry every question alone, for long enough, you stop noticing how heavy it is.

It just becomes the way things feel.

I have had my husband by my side from day one of Hebrew by Inbal - and that is its own kind of everything. But he married me, not the life mission I decided to pursue.

And then, I found the right person to add to my team. And then another one.

Someone who gets what you're trying to do, who cares about it the way you care about it, who you trust to think alongside you.

And suddenly questions that used to land only on you have somewhere else to go.

That is not a small thing.

And you feel it in the way you move through your days.

I am lucky enough to have two of the rarest women on my team now. And I don't take that lightly for a single day.

But the reason I am sharing this with you is that learning a language is exactly the same in this sense.

The overwhelm of not knowing where to start.

What to focus on.

What to do next.

Whether you're doing it right.

What to do when you get stuck.

Carrying all of that alone is exhausting in a way that has nothing to do with Hebrew.

Having the right person walking beside you changes that.

Not by doing the work for you.

By making sure you never figure it out alone.

And that is exactly what I am here for.

Shabbat Shalom,

Inbal

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 121

Hebrew by Inbal

I sat through four hours waiting for one moment.

TEDx Charleston. My first time watching a live TEDx. 17 speakers and performers. And I sat through all of it with that quiet internal measuring that I think some of you will recognize.

Not cynicism. Not judgment. Just - waiting. For the thing that lands.

Because here's what I know about myself: I need inspiration the way I need food. Not as entertainment. Not as motivation. As actual nourishment. And I've learned that I can't manufacture it or settle for the version of it that almost gets there.

I know the difference in my body. The real thing has a specific feeling. And I will sit through four hours for one moment of it without a single regret.

That moment came from a man named Matthew Dicks.

One idea. So precise, so true, that my first thought was - how did I not think of that? And the way he delivered it - I felt every word land exactly where it was supposed to.

That combination is rare. That's the thing that takes you somewhere.

If you want to see what I mean, watch this - go to 2:27:30 - youtube.com/live/Be1J1aJoVw8

The whole experience took me back to something. I used to do story slam in Tel Aviv - you get up on a stage, short story, just you. No director. I had no training. I just decided one day I was doing it. And because of that I learned to feel delivery the way you feel music - not a formula, something in the gut. When to slow down. When to go quiet. What a word weighs when you put it in the right place.

That sensitivity goes both ways.

But when it works - when someone gets up with an idea so true it stops you, and delivers it in a way that makes your whole body pay attention - there is nothing like it. It justifies every hour. Every almost. Every moment of waiting.

Shabbat Shalom,

Inbal





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3 weeks ago (edited) | [YT] | 130

Hebrew by Inbal

You always say it better than I ever could.

A small sample from this month.

A pastor who tried everything before.

An aviation guide who knows teaching and knows the difference.

Israelis who know Hebrew inside and out and felt compelled to write.

If you're ready, the path is simple:

Want to speak and understand Hebrew? Practically Speaking Hebrew is all you need.

Want to read and write too? Add Hebrew 1-2-3 to Practically Speaking Hebrew.

Practically Speaking Hebrew > hebrewbyinbal.com/speak

Hebrew 1-2-3 > hebrewbyinbal.com/read

Inbal 💙🤍





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1 month ago | [YT] | 119

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Today is Memorial Day /yom ha-zee-ka-'ron/. One day. Four names.

Memorial Day for the Fallen of Israel's Wars and the Victims of Terrorism /yom ha-zee-ka-'ron le-kha-le-'ley ma-ar-'khot yees-ra-'el oo-le-kha-le-'ley pe-oo-'lot ha-ey-'vah/

Memorial Day for the Fallen of Israel's Wars /yom ha-zee-ka-'ron le-kha-le-'ley ma-ar-'khot yees-ra-'el/

Memorial Day for the Fallen of the IDF /yom ha-zee-ka-'ron le-kha-le-'ley 'tsa-hal/

Memorial Day /yom ha-zee-ka-'ron/

All four. Same sacred day.

I have a YouTube video explaining everything about this day and the other major events happening in Israel this week. Comment below if you want the link.

יזכור🕯️




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The Hebrew month of אייר /ee-'yar/ started yesterday.

It's one of those months that doesn't announce itself loudly.

No big holiday at the start, no dramatic ritual.

And yet there's something quietly powerful about this month that I've always felt.

/ee-'yar/ אייר is known as the month of healing.

That's the whole energy of this month.

It lands right in the middle of the Omer, the 49-day journey between Passover and Shavuot.

We've just left something behind and we haven't arrived yet. We're in between.

And that in-between space? That's exactly where healing happens.

This month also holds Yom HaZikaron and Yom Ha'atzmaut, back to back.

One day we grieve. The next day we celebrate.
Not instead of grieving.
Right after it.

I think אייר understands that.

Healing doesn't ask you to skip the hard part. It asks you to move through it and keep going.

If something in you needs healing this month, whether it's something old or something recent, אייר is your month. 🌿





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1 month ago | [YT] | 277

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This week, Carlos and I went to our first Holocaust memorial here in the US.

I've been in America for six years. And this was the first time.

In Israel, there was never a year I did not attend some event for Holocaust memorial. In school. The army. The workplace. In the city I lived in. Every year, without fail.

I know the playbook by heart. Every Israeli does. What happens, when, how people stand, what the silence feels like.

This was different. And that's okay. Every community holds memory in its own way.

But the one moment that stopped me completely was when a local Holocaust survivor spoke.

There are so few left. The last people on this earth who can look you in the eyes and say - I was there. It happened to me. And every year there are fewer of them.

Which is why I left that memorial carrying a question I can't put down:

What happens when there are no survivors left?

Because we are already watching Holocaust denial grow. We are watching disrespect creep in where reverence used to live. We are watching people who should know better look away.

In Israel, when the siren sounds on Yom Hashoah - Holocaust remembrance day - everything stops. Cars on the highway pull over. People stand in the middle of the street. Nobody runs. Nobody moves. You stand. You face it. You remember together.

Not all sirens in Israel mean run. Some sirens mean stop, remember, and never forget.

As Shabbat comes in and we light the candles tonight, I am thinking of them.

The ones who didn't make it. The ones who survived and carried the weight of both. And the one survivor who walked into that room this week and put a face, a voice, a heartbeat to the Holocaust. We are running out of time to be in the same room as it.

It is on the next generations now. Not only the descendants of survivors. All of us.

We light the candles. We tell the stories. We make sure Never Again means Never Again.

Shabbat Shalom 💙

Inbal



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1 month ago | [YT] | 231

Hebrew by Inbal

You've been showing up every day.
200 days.
Every streak. Every lesson.
And you still can't form a full sentence in Hebrew.

That's not a you problem. That's a method problem.
Apps were built to keep you engaged - not to teach your English-speaking brain how Hebrew actually works.

And that one thing - understanding how Hebrew is structured differently from English - is the whole game.

No app teaches it.
Practically Speaking Hebrew does.

It's the only program built around how your brain actually learns Hebrew - with personal guidance from a native Israeli, for life.

Swipe to see exactly what's been missing.
Then come join me at hebrewbyinbal.com/speak

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