Hebrew by Inbal

Hello & Shalom! Welcome to Hebrew by Inbal

My name is Inbal Amit, and I help English Speakers Learn and Love Hebrew.

Combining practical and innovative methods including the English you know, my students of all ages enjoy great wins, clarity, and confidence in their journey to Hebrew fluency.

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Welcome my Friend!

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.

Elections are approaching in Israel.

Follow along as I take you behind the scenes on the voting experience in Hebrew!

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This week I was supposed to open the calendar and find a date for dinner with friends I have been wanting to have over for too long.

I was also supposed to find and book tickets to Israel.

I didn't do either one.

And yes, I'm very busy. But that wasn't the reason.

The reason is that whenever I think about anything like this, a second sentence arrives.

But what if.

My what if revolves mostly around my chronic headaches. They come unannounced and an attack can last hours.

Most of the time I'm fine. Then sometimes I'm not, and there is no warning and no reason and no way to move it.

But what if it happens the day they'll come for dinner.

But what if traveling triggers it hours before I can get to a room and hide until it passes.

The hardest part is not the pain.

It's that I used to be a person who just said yes.

Big plans or small, I added anything I wanted to the calendar with no second sentence, no but what if.

I'm telling you this because I know a lot of people have their own version of this.

Something that quietly takes away the freedom they wish they had - to make plans, to live, to make the decisions they want, to feel freer in this world.

Something your body does.

Someone who needs you more than they used to.

Something that happened to you once and never fully left.

Something you have stopped explaining to people.

A thing nobody sees when you show up smiling.

And maybe like me, you don't say yours out loud because it sounds like an excuse. And you hate sounding like an excuse.

I know this one. It is not an excuse.

But I also know what happens if we let the second sentence decide.

The calendar would stay empty. The friends would stay unseen. The trip would never happen. And life would get smaller and smaller.

So this weekend I'm opening the calendar.

I'm booking the flights.

And yes, it feels very unnatural having to force myself into the things I truly want to show up for. And yes, sometimes I'll have to cancel them. Both cost me.

But the version of me that stops planning is a much bigger loss.

If you're looking at a calendar with a second sentence sitting next to every square, pick one. Just one.

I'll be working on my one this weekend.

Shabbat Shalom 💙

Today we enter the month of Elul.

The last month of the Hebrew year. The one that walks us to the door of the new one.

Most people think of Elul as a month of accounting. Looking back. Adding up what you did and what you didn't.

But that is not the case here. And it's all in the name.

Tradition reads the four letters of Elul אלול as the opening of a line from Song of Songs. I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine אֲנִי לְדוֹדִי וְדוֹדִי לִי /a-'nee le-do-'dee ve-do-'dee lee/

The last month of the year is named after a love song.

That's not an accident.

That's the lesson of this month.

Because before you look back at your year, Elul tells you the order to do it in. Not from a list of everything you got wrong. From a place of love. Both for the people around you, and for yourself.

You can be honest about your year and still be gentle with the person who lived it. Both, at the same time. That's what this month is asking of you.

So this Elul, when you sit down to take stock, start where the month starts. With love.

💙

Elections are approaching in Israel.

Follow along as I take you behind the scenes on the voting experience in Hebrew!

Elections are approaching in Israel.

Follow along as I take you behind the scenes on the voting experience in Hebrew!

Comment below if you’d like to receive the full link.

Boker Tov Friends!

Time to order your morning coffee ☕️

https://open.substack.com/pub/hebrewbyinbal/p/learn-essential-hebrew-travel-phrases?r=2at7n8&utm_medium=ios

Nobody learns Hebrew to pass a test.

You learn it because there is a person on the other side. A grandmother whose stories you have only ever heard secondhand. Israeli in-laws you want to genuinely talk with. A trip to Israel where you order your own coffee, ask your own directions, and hear the country answer you back.

That is the whole point, and it is exactly what most programs never get you to. They teach you about Hebrew. Vocabulary lists, grammar charts, quizzes you pass and then forget. Meanwhile the actual moment you wanted, the conversation, never arrives.

I built Practically Speaking Hebrew backwards from that moment. You learn how to construct your own sentences in real time, so you can say what you actually need to say, in whatever situation you are standing in. Real Hebrew, for your real life.

That is what this was always for.

🇮🇱 Stefanie is in Tel Aviv right now sitting in the café she used to only picture in her head.

She wrote to me from the table. Swipe and read what she said.

She joined Practically Speaking Hebrew a few weeks ago, followed my proven formula, and this is what it felt like getting off the plane in Israel.

We found a new park near our home and walked into this. 🌿

Spanish moss hanging down like curtains. Old oaks leaning over the path. An overgrown brick wall that has clearly stopped arguing with the vines. And a trail that just disappears into the green

I stood there a while. Because this is exactly what learning Hebrew feels like. It does not announce itself or demand anything from you. It simply opens, quietly, and invites you a little deeper. One word, then another, then a whole world you did not know was waiting behind the trees.

Nature in Hebrew is ‘te-va, טבע

Some things are not meant to be conquered. They are meant to be wandered into.

Going to Israel? Do not get on that plane without these. ✈️🇮🇱

Yes, you can get by with English in Israel. But there is a moment that changes everything, when you say a few words in Hebrew and watch the person in front of you light up. Suddenly you are not a tourist being served. You are a guest being welcomed.

It is live right now, and it is yours. The exact phrases to make that happen. Not textbook translations. The real ones Israelis actually use, chosen to keep you clear and confident whether you are asking for directions, ordering, shopping, or finding your way to the Kotel.

And here is my favorite part: I picked phrases that skip gender forms entirely, so you never have to stop and wonder which version to use. Just say it and be understood.

Go read it, save it, and take it with you. 👇

https://open.substack.com/pub/hebrewbyinbal/p/learn-essential-hebrew-travel-phrases?r=2at7n8&utm_medium=ios

Your trip is about to get so much better. 🧳💙

Going to Israel? Do not get on that plane without these. ✈️🇮🇱

Yes, you can get by with English in Israel. But there is a moment that changes everything, when you say a few words in Hebrew and watch the person in front of you light up. Suddenly you are not a tourist being served. You are a guest being welcomed.

Tomorrow morning I am handing you the exact phrases to make that happen. Not textbook translations. The real ones Israelis actually use, chosen to keep you clear and confident whether you are asking for directions, ordering, shopping, or finding your way to the Kotel.

And here is my favorite part: I picked phrases that skip gender forms entirely, so you never have to stop and wonder which version to use. Just say it and be understood.

It drops tomorrow, Monday at 8:00am. Subscribe now so it is waiting in your inbox before you pack. 👇

https://substack.com/@hebrewbyinbal

Your trip is about to get so much better. 🧳💙

It’s Live!

What is it actually like to vote in an Israeli election? 🗳️🇮🇱

Not the headlines. Not the analysis. The real thing. The paper slips, the blue envelope, the little booth, the walk to the polling station in your neighborhood. It works nothing like it does in America, and most people outside Israel have never seen it.

I am taking you inside the whole experience from a voter’s point of view, with the Hebrew you would actually hear and use along the way.

Democracy in Hebrew, from the inside out.

Head here 👇

Tomorrow (Sunday) at 12pm EST, I am taking you inside the whole experience from a voter’s point of view, with the Hebrew you would actually hear and use along the way.

Democracy in Hebrew, from the inside out.

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I received this comment and it stopped me in my tracks. ❤️

Because this is exactly why I teach Hebrew.

Hebrew is not simply a language to memorize. It is a living thread connecting people to stories, prayers, family, history, culture, and generations of people who spoke these same words before us.

When someone tells me that learning Hebrew helped them feel connected to something deeper, I am reminded that what I do is about so much more than vocabulary and grammar. It is about opening a door.

And that door is available to you, too.

You do not need to know where to begin. You do not need to be “good at languages.” You simply need to take the first step and allow yourself to discover what Hebrew can unlock for you.

Every word you learn becomes part of your connection.

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.

What started as a collection of lovely photos has become something deeper. Many of you now share glimpses of how rest and peace live inside your homes and hearts, whatever that looks like for you, and it is incredibly moving to witness those moments. It fills me with gratitude every single week.

Because that is the thing about a day of rest. You do not have to observe it the way I do to need it. Everyone deserves a pause. Everyone deserves one day where the world stops asking things of them.

Reading your comments has become one of my favorite ways to welcome Shabbat. If I ever miss responding, please know it’s never intentional, sometimes comments get hidden but I always see the spirit behind them and feel connected to each of you on this day 💙

Wishing all of you a peaceful and meaningful Shabbat, and to those who do not observe, simply a beautiful, restful weekend.

You give me the gift of sharing my passion for teaching Hebrew, and my faith, with a community that welcomes both. That is rarer than you know, and I do not take it for granted.