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June 14, 2026 / 29 Sivan 5786
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Wildflower blooming in Southern Golan Trail near Avnei Eitan, Israel (Shutterstock)
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Shalom -, Please enjoy today's Daily Inspiration from Israel.
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Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit.
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בְּנוּ בָתִּים וְשֵׁבוּ וְנִטְעוּ גַנּוֹת וְאִכְלוּ אֶת־פִּרְיָן
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B’nu vatim v’shevu, v’nit’u gannot, v’ichlu et piryan.
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My Beautiful Land
By Sara Lamm
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When I was a kid, one of my favorite songs to sing in school was "Eretz Yisrael Sheli," my beautiful land of Israel. You can listen to it below!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwxtVTJMktE
It is a simple children's song, the kind where each verse adds a new line you have to remember, with hand motions to match. Who built? Who planted? All of us together. A house here, a tree there, a road, a bridge. Almost thirty years later, my own kids sing that same song. Except now they are singing it in Israel. Today we are studying the book of Jeremiah for Bible Month. Rabbi Pesach Wolicki's conversation on Jeremiah is one I would urge you to watch in full. He talks about Jeremiah as the loneliest figure in the Bible, a prophet who did not just deliver a message and move on but lived inside the tragedy he foresaw for forty years. It is a moving, personal conversation, and I am only going to touch on one piece of it here. Go watch the rest.
The piece I want to focus on is chapter 29. Jeremiah is writing to the Jewish exiles who have just been dragged off to Babylon. Their home is destroyed. Their identity, their entire sense of nationhood, was tied to the land of Israel, and now they are sitting in a foreign empire, grieving everything they lost. And what does Jeremiah tell them to do?
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Open Every Book of the Hebrew Bible
Join the Bible Month Challenge and watch 24 FREE videos, one for each book of the Hebrew Bible. Discover the original language, the story of Israel, and the life-changing ideas woven through Scripture from Genesis to Chronicles.
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Why Gen Z Christians are Hungry for Authenticity
Wide-eyed and wholly unaware of what was about to happen to me, I stepped out of the van. The mountain air brushed my 17-year-old face as the heavy clay and rocky soil crunched beneath my feet. Nir Lavi had a special spring in his step that seemed connected to his mischievous, contagious smile.
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Paradise Found: 400,000-Year-Old Cave Unearthed in Town Literally Named “Little Garden of Eden”
The Israel Antiquities Authority and the University of Haifa are now advancing a large-scale research program to reconstruct how the cave’s inhabitants lived, adapted to their environment, and transmitted knowledge across generations.
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The Deadly Flaw of the Deal
We’ve been hearing for weeks, even months, from the White House that the Islamic Republic of Iran was about to sign a deal. True or not, for some reason, President Trump‘s most recent statements have been taken more seriously. The stock market is up, oil prices are down, and a deal may be announced imminently.
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From Chaos to Redemption: Contemporary Teachings from the Book of Judges
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Moral confusion. Political chaos. A society that has lost its way. Sound familiar? From Chaos to Redemption applies the eternal lessons of the Book of Judges to the burning issues of our time — and the guidance it offers is as urgent today as it was three thousand years ago. The answers are in the Bible. They always have been.
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Use code INSPIRATION20 to get 20% off!
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Blessings from the land of Israel,
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