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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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Inside Out April 15, 2026
Basketball Court As Beis Medrash
By Yochanan Gordon In the airport earlier today, as we were boarding our flight from West Palm Beach, one of...
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Inside Out April 15, 2026
The Unspoken Moshiach Seudah Speech
By Yochanan Gordon Every family has a child with social abnormalities—the type of kid who expresses what others think, but...
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Inside Out March 30, 2026
Festival Of Redemption
By Yochanan Gordon “In the month of Nisan we were redeemed, and in the month of Nisan we will be redeemed.”—Tractate Rosh Hashanah In...
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Inside Out March 25, 2026
Where’s Moshe?
By Yochanan Gordon The redemptions of Purim and Pesach are not isolated events, but part of a single continuum. Chazaldescribe them...
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Inside Out March 18, 2026
Wealth From The Broken Pieces
By Yochanan Gordon Pesach is the holiday of freedom. Our forefathers were liberated from Mitzrayim on Pesach, and while we are busy...
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Inside Out March 11, 2026
A Tribute to Rav Dovid Spiegel: The Rebbe of the Five Towns
An American Chassidus By Yochanan Gordon The publication of this article coincides with the conclusion of shivah for Harav Dovid Spiegel, zt’l, known...
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Inside Out March 5, 2026
The Sefer Of Seekers
Rabbi Yussi Zakutinsky By Yochanan Gordon The Jewish people are not new to the publication of books. In fact, we...
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Inside Out February 25, 2026
Knowing Through Negation
I’m often asked—usually by people unfamiliar with my multicultural upbringing—why we chose not to send our children to Chabad yeshivos....
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Inside Out February 18, 2026
Purim Logic
By Yochanan Gordon I’ve never really written about the tension of having to produce content on a weekly basis. By...
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Inside Out February 12, 2026
Relationships At Their Root
I was planning on writing about something altogether different this week, but because last week I wrote about parenting and...
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