House of Yael

Women are taught from a very young age to manage their discomfort rather than name it. To smile through situations that make them uncomfortable. To keep the peace even when the peace should not exist. In this episode Yael shares what happened in a gym locker room on a Monday morning — and what the silence of every other woman in that room taught her about the way women are socialized to absorb dis...

This week is Shavuot — the holiday where we read the Book of Ruth. And this year her story hit differently. Ruth was a Moabite woman who lost everything, chose Judaism deliberately when she could have walked away, and then showed up to glean in a field every single day with no guarantee of what came next. No motivation speech. No perfect conditions. Just showing up and doing the unglamorous work....

This is where it all started. In this first episode Yael tells the real story of how House of Yael was born — not the polished version but the honest one. It started in the middle of a failing marriage with a woman who decided she was going to leave as healthy as possible. She went looking for nutrition programs that fit keeping kosher. Strength training designed for women going through perimenopa...

This is House of Yael. One destination for everything the Jewish world needs — news and world events told with a Torah lens, Jewish identity explored boldly and without apology, mind body and soul content rooted in Jewish values, and one Jewish woman's completely honest journey of rebuilding her life through faith, early mornings, and a lot of honesty. No jumping between seventeen tabs. No sc...

In this episode Yael shares what Shabbat actually looked like during her marriage to a man who hated being Jewish, how everything changed the moment he left, and the one Shabbat in the middle of her divorce that changed everything. This is not a halachic breakdown of Shabbat rules. This is what Shabbat does to a person when you finally let it be what it is meant to be — and how to start making it...

In this episode Yael gets honest about what menopause actually felt like — the night sweats, the brain fog, the twenty pounds that appeared out of nowhere, and the digestive chaos that sent her on a mission to figure out what her body could and could not handle. She shares the Zone of Excellence — her three zone system for understanding her own digestion — and the unexpected conversation in a neur...