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Inside Out August 12, 2026
Every Letter A Beginning
There is a unique phenomenon when it comes to the month of Elul, and that is the plethora of roshei teivos associated with...
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Inside Out August 5, 2026
On 58 Years
The truth is that erev Rosh Chodesh Elul marks the 57th yahrzeit of my great-grandfather and namesake, Reb Yochanan ben Reb Yisrael Gordon of Dokshitz. Yet,...
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Inside Out July 29, 2026
Divine Satiety
With most of our kids away in camp over the summer, I’ve been trying to focus on something that I’ve...
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Inside Out July 21, 2026
G-d’s Shidduch Résumé
By the time you read this, we will find ourselves between Tishah B’Av and Tu B’Av—the two holidays that stand...
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Inside Out July 15, 2026
The Happy Eichah
Rabbi Chaim Zimmerman of Skokie, Illinois, a nephew of Reb Boruch Ber Leibowitz of Kaminetz and one of the Torah...
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Inside Out July 8, 2026
What Is A Mivtza?
By Yochanan Gordon No, it’s not a typo. This article isn’t meant to define what a mitzvah is, but rather a mivtza. Mivtza is...
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Inside Out July 1, 2026
Holy Zeal
“Pinchas the son of Elazar, the son of Aharon HaKohen, has turned back My wrath from upon the Children of Israel by...
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Inside Out June 24, 2026
The Dude And The Dudelah
I said I was done writing about basketball two weeks ago, but there was one lesson I could not overlook....
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Inside Out June 17, 2026
The Price Of Growth
School is out, and the struggle to get our kids out of the house and on their way to sleepaway...
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Inside Out June 17, 2026
Gimmel Tammuz: Absence As Presence
This year marks 32 years since Gimmel Tammuz 5754. Thirty-two years is not merely a passage of time. It is an entire...
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Inside Out June 10, 2026
Return To The Garden
Someone mentioned to me in passing that I’ve been writing a lot about the Knicks lately. That’s a bit disingenuous....
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Inside Out June 3, 2026
The Ballad Of East And West
Illustration generated with artificial intelligence By Yochanan Gordon The Ballad of East and West was not written by me, but by...
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Inside Out May 27, 2026
Learning From Jalen Brunson
Shavuos is both the yahrzeit of King David and the yom tov on which we read the story of Ruth, the great-grandmother of Dovid HaMelech. The...
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Inside Out May 19, 2026
Torah And America
I strive every week to leave you, my readers, with an insightful idea, an important lesson, or perhaps a redeeming...
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Inside Out May 13, 2026
The Anxiety Of Evolutionary Judaism
By Yochanan Gordon The yahrzeit of the Baal Shem Tov, founder of the Chassidic movement, falls on the first day of Shavuos—the...
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Inside Out May 6, 2026
Kavod
The Gemara in Yevamos teaches that Rabbi Akiva had twelve thousand pairs of students stretching from Giv’as to Antifras, and they all perished during...
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Inside Out April 29, 2026
The Language of Light
One morning this week in shul, a few friends were discussing a podcast that our Rebbe had recently appeared on....
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Inside Out April 22, 2026
Redeeming Narratives
I’m writing this on Monday, April 21, the third day of Iyar. The Hayom Yom for today records a teaching from Reb...
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