Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Why was Mrs. Lapin laughing at the Balzac quote about most husbands looking like Orangutans trying to play violins? We avoid building bridges that are destined to fail. We avoid constructing buildings that defy laws of gravity and will fall. Yet, large numbers of people set themselves up in living arrangements that will most likely result in trainwrecks. Do some “open marriages” survive? There may be one or two. Do most children do better living with their father and their mother married to one another? Yes, and what is more most men and women thrive better in marriage than they would in alternative living arrangements. People know better than to defy physical laws yet they often assume spiritual laws are less immutable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When you stick to the laws of engineering and physics you build bridges and buildings that stand strong and endure. When you stick to the laws of how the world REALLY works you build marriages that thrive happily and endure. We find the former easier to accept than the latter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

China is buying one large American company after another. Hilton Hotels, GE Appliances, Waldorf Hotel, AMC Theaters, Motorola, Smithfield Foods, and hundreds & hundreds more. Progressive politicians say, “No problem! It’s all good.” Academics and media elites are all internationalists and globalists anyway, so they think it’s just fine. But what does your gut say? Is it really good when an American company moves production to China? There’s a reason the secular left is fine with man jobs leaving. And remember, nobody can make you do anything. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether it’s toothaches, cars, or countries, years of neglect and mismanagement take a toll. What is more, initial efforts at repair cause pain and are expensive in time and money. Not surprisingly, after 24 years of damage and decay America is selling itself to China. When last did you see something made in America? Does this matter? You bet it does. Let me explain why. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This show is about money and sex and how these two of mankind's most compelling urges reinforce one another and how they sublimate into marriage and commerce for the benefit of both individuals and society. A look at the TV sitcom of the 90s, Friends. How our relationships fall into 3 categories: Sexual (family); Non-Sexual (financial); and friends. The role objective obligation plays in relationships. What surprising behavior hurts your health to the equivalent of a pack a day of cigarettes and a large consumption of alcohol? American Alliance of Jews and Christianswww.RabbiDanielLapin.com Ancient Jewish Wisdom TV Show http://www.tct.tv/watch-tct/on-demand-ajw Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/rabbi-daniel-lapin-show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

t’s an inconvenient truth for progressives that single people are seven times poorer than married people. America is now a two-caste system with marriage as the dividing line. In the high-income third of the population, children are raised by married parents; in the bottom-income third, children are raised by single parents. The main difference between the haves and the have-nots is that the haves tend to marry and give birth, in that order. The have-nots tend to have babies and remain unmarried. Marriage makes all the difference.American Alliance of Jews and Christianswww.RabbiDanielLapin.com Ancient Jewish Wisdom TV Show http://www.tct.tv/watch-tct/on-demand-ajw Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/rabbi-daniel-lapin-show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Only Connect! Enhance every aspect of your life, Friendships, Finances, Faith, & Family by connecting more deeply with more people! Who helped me get my private pilot license? The power of patterns & learning the Morse Code in 15 minutes. We don’t write off people because they are imperfect or hold views we may despise. Each of us is a complex amalgam of good and bad. The good doesn’t get wiped out by the bad, neither does the bad get wiped out by the good. Samuel Morse was anti-Immigrant. He was also pro-slavery. And he painted beautiful pictures and changed the world with his invention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sadly, it is far easier to think of something utterly destructive to do which will ruin your life than it is to come up with something that will transform your life for the better. But here is one thing that you can start doing right away which will bring more unforeseen benefits into your life than you can imagine: Connect more deeply with more people. And I do not mean on Facebook!! Finding new friends and nurturing old ones is good for your health, for your family life and for your finances. Sounds easy but like baking, bookkeeping and ballet, it helps to know just how to do it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A woman has the right to tell a man who wants something from her, “No!” But a baker or photographer has no right to say “No!” to certain people who want something from them. Any pleasure that two or more consenting adults wish to take from one another’s bodies is perfectly acceptable. However, society gets very involved critiquing and sanctioning two consenting adults who choose certain economic transactions. Why is sex always fine whereas money is usually very not fine? We used to have free markets and sexual restraint. Today it is the reverse. How is that working out for you? Understanding the four revolutions that have shaped our world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prosecutors frequently build their reputations prosecuting business professionals and their companies. Often no wrongdoing is uncovered but by then it is too late. On college campuses women with morning-after regret frequently charge last night’s paramour with rape. Reputations ruined and careers destroyed. There is no presumption of innocence for business or for men in general. Our elitists, rulers and betters are waging war against the private sector institutions that create prosperity. They disparage men and masculinity though women do not climb up to repair refinery towers or dive down to cap underwater oil wells. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Don’t you sometimes feel you’re living through Alice in Wonderland? The things you once thought of as obviously true are no longer seen that way. Males can be females; making money equals taking money; profit is the same as plunder; America is an evil country but Sudan is good; and champions of cultures based on barbarism, superstition, tribalism and fanaticism lay guilt trips on Western civilization. What is going on? Communism/socialism/liberalism/progressivism are obliterating objectivity, that’s what’s going on. Reality is no longer what is evident to every eye, even those without advanced academic degrees. No, reality is now decreed by the high priests of media, academia, politics, entertainment and elitism. Where does that leave you? With your rabbi who reveals how the world REALLY works. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When people ask you to explain the difference between liberalism and conservatism, what do you say? If you start talking of size of government, taxation, etc., you sound wonkish and most people just tune you out. This week’s show offers a better solution. Liberalism loathes, detests, reviles and rejects objective reality. Women can be men and the other way around. Human nature? What’s that? Maternity leave for men? Why not? Government should bail out non-profitable companies if they make windmills. Climate change? Biggest problem facing our country. Nobody is ever complicit in their own misfortune especially blacks, homosexuals and Jews. A degree in Gender Studies is as valuable as one in Computer Science. If you reject how the world REALLY works, there is no limit to the idiocy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Would you refuse to date someone with poor credit? If you’re a single woman, the answer is likely to be yes. And you’d be right! If you’re a single man, surveys show you probably don’t much care. And you’d be right too. In this show I explain why. Susan Lapin joins me to discuss childlessness and I step into dangerous territory when I speculate on the success of Fifty Shades of Grey. The Mommy Wars and how childless female workers resent moms at work. Maternity leave for everyone, not just moms, of course. Stop calling your spouse ‘Mommy” or “Daddy”. How your job impacts your estrogen and testosterone levels and other rabbinic ruminations and ramblings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your 50 year-old male doctor has had, on average, nearly double the clinical experience than a female doctor of the same age. Most work 3 day weeks to men’s 5 or 6 day work weeks. Same goes for dentists and lawyers. Given that most professional competence is won not at school, but at work, explain why having a female cardiologist is a good idea? Just askin’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carbon Offsets is a silly scam that allows environmental sinners like Al Gore & and hypocrites like Leonardo DiCaprio to feel virtuous by paying others to do good. It’s a modern example of the Church selling indulgences back in the Middle Ages. So in that spirit, we now invite sinners who corrupt the land with concupiscence, adulterous affairs and marital betrayal to purchase infidelity offsets. I will arrange for part of your payment to go to support the good behavior of chaste and celibate people and to couples maintaining monogamous marriages. I explain the details along with the hows and whys of the extremist religion of environmentalism and climate change. How Earth Day really does celebrate Communism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why did Senator Gaylord Nelson and his comrades pick April 22nd 1970, the 100th birthday of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin? Why were many speakers and supporters of the first Earth Day known communists? Why do so many positions of environmentalists and climate change fanatics hurt the economic and military interests of the United States? It’s all quite simple. Allow me to explain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This past Tuesday night I was brought to a campus near San Francisco to deliver a lecture entitled “Making Money is Moral”. The program was put on by the outstanding Young America’s Foundation who own and run President Reagan’s ranch near Santa Barbara where they put on fantastic programs for school and college young people. I got about a third through the speech before the protestors got themselves sufficiently organized to begin their disruption. You know how it can be a little scary when you sense you are in the presence of huge forces over which you have no control? It’s how you feel when you find yourself in a massive crowd that is turning ugly. It’s how decent Germans felt in the five years from 1933-1938 as they watched the pillars of their culture collapse. Well, this podcast is about the speech and what Susan Lapin and I experienced this past Tuesday night on a university campus in California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If we were souls without bodies, we’d have no appetites. If we were bodies without souls we’d have no worries. But we have both so we may as well understand how these three appetites really work. Just think, if everybody could control them, no obesity, no illegitimacy, less crime, and a thriving economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“…In the rich man’s world.” So sang ABBA and so another generation of young music lovers was corrupted. Obviously that rich man took it from all those who are now poor as a result. By misleading an entire generation into believing that the world is all physical/material, money is transformed into something evil with which only government can be trusted. Instead of a vehicle for individual independence, money (Just like guns) is bad for ordinary private citizens to own. Presenting a prescription of hope for the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Like pirates buying their way back into polite society by building a church, today anyone who has made a few dollars is expected to purchase penitence by ‘giving back to society’ regardless of what this says the donor was doing to society while making his money in the first place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I just saw Niagara Falls for the first time! I felt like remaining there for hours absorbing the overwhelming might of the sight. But not yielding to what I felt like but doing what I needed to do (record this show) was the right thing to do. We all make the mistake of believing that our feelings are all important and also all powerful. Marriages end because “I no longer feel anything for her”. Affairs begin because “I feel so wonderful when I’m with her”. Businesses fail when one person explodes in anger against his partner. Anger is another feeling. How about worry and stress? More feelings you need to learn to control. Fortunately in this show I make accessible ancient Jewish wisdom’s timeless and true technique for controlling feelings rather than having them control us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Isn’t success in life more likely when we do exactly what we should do when we should do it? What interferes with this winning formula? Simple—our feelings and moods. Why didn’t you make that sales call/exercise/call your mother/deliver that order??? Answer: Because you didn’t feel like it. What if ancient Jewish wisdom can make you less susceptible to your feelings? Well, it can! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How to circumnavigate the Eastern United States-as if you cared! But wait! This small boat journey would use one of America’s greatest achievements—The Erie Canal. The similarity between the Jewish Star, the “Magen David”-the shield of David and the swastika. The spiritual significance of David’s six pointed Star. Why the New York State Thruway and Amtrak from Eastern New York to Buffalo follows the path of the Erie Canal. This 363 mile canal built in only 8 years (1817-1825) included 83 locks. What is a lock? Today, could you get an environmental impact study done in only 8 years? It was built by men! That’s right, there didn’t appear to be any women uprooting huge tree stumps, dragging dirt out of the ditch or laying colossal stone blocks to build locks. Why is it America’s business that Assad is killing Syrians. As a human, I am sad about it, but why is it our government’s responsibility to fix. Why didn’t Truman impose a ‘Red Line’ on Stalin’s brutal murders of millions of Russians. Why didn’t Eisenhower stop Mao TseTung from massacring 45 million Chinese? Why didn’t Clinton stop the murder of more than a million Tutsi tribesmen? Why does America feel so compassionate today? The amazing and inspiring story of American commerce, the Erie Canal, and the Empire State. It was a bigger engineering challenge than Panama 100 years later. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Like Germany’s Mrs. Merkel, who felt more compassion for a million Muslim men than for 80 million Germans, our government seems to feel more concern about Syrians than about Americans. Why do so many believe that American blood and money must be expended on a futile quest? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The one big money question to ask your kids. So, because I’m not female, I am not allowed to talk about the deepest desires of women? I am not, thank God, poor so I am prohibited from addressing problems of poverty? And my skin color censors what I might say about race in America? Really? The Left combats ideas by disqualifying the messenger. A dangerously high proportion of our population has been infected by the virus of materialism which makes its victims see things weirdly. This contagious disease of materialism mocks marriage, exalts skin color and reveres gender. But America wasn’t like this in 1956. I describe one of the biggest movies in history. Why Materialists love race-based college admissions and hate financial education. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What madness infects the brains of those who think that skin color tells you more about people than their beliefs and values? What bizarre disorder makes it easy for men to become women but impossible for homosexuals to become normal? What mysterious malady contaminates the minds of those who oppose the death penalty for sadistic serial murderers but are sanguine about snuffing out the life of a near-term baby? It’s Secular Socialism-some call it progressivism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Food tastes better to men when served by a woman they desire. Women suffer depression at twice the rate of men. Really? Perhaps men just don’t share their pain. Is male depression underreported? Besides, I’ll tell you how men deal with it. Which story is more realistic, “Cinderella” or its opposite, “The Princess and the Peasant”? Many women freeze their eggs. Would men if they could? Men who fail to confront their masculinity become thugs or wimps. Masculine good men make women very happy just as feminine women make men very happy. The difference is that women don’t admit it. Women have been indoctrinated to denigrate masculinity and become miserable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, said Irina and Gloria. Funny words but fatally flawed. Turns out women do need men, just as men need women. What sort of men do women need? Strong masculine men. What sort of women do men need? Strong feminine women. Why do they need each other? In order to be happy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If our worst enemies had established a conspiracy in 1962 to harm America’s power and influence by 2016 could they have come up with a better plan than what has played out? Once the world’s finest K-12 educational system now a ridiculous caricature of education that is more of a teachers retirement and benefits program. Happy 4th of July Parades now replaced by homosexual pride displays of public behavior that animals wouldn’t engage in. Vast, unaccountable bureaucracies reducing once free Americans into serfs. Once great universities reduced to kindergartens for oversized babies. A powerful economy turned into a basket case. How could there not have been a conspiratorial plan? The only part they didn’t plan on was Trump winning in 2016. Let’s take a good look at the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rabbi Lapin talks about the speed that America has descended into socialism; it's like breaking a dam. "Can you believe that Hollywood , once upon a time, was profoundly patriotic? And you think back in, I'm saying 1957, Hollywood was still patriotic in the aftermath of World War 2, but what happened? What happened in the last 60 years?" He's asking what happened to this country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are poor upper class people and rich low class people. Contrary to Marx, “Class” has nothing to do with money or skin color. It’s a mindset and a way of life. People headed for the upper class do not go on welfare. If human life is only material and not spiritual, then welfare would make sense. Since we are spiritual beings, instead of raising people to upper class, welfare imprisons them in lower class. Lower class people live in and only for the present. With no vision of past or future, lower class lives for entertainment, sex, violence and debt. Low class politicians worry about climate and sugary drinks rather than water supply and crime. Upper class people are more inspired by past and future than by present. They relate to reality. They can postpone gratification and build up lives, families and wealth. A country needs majority of its population to be upper class for survival. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rabbi Daniel Lapin talks about time and its role. Everyone, even animals, live in the present. "The more present focused you are, the more tolerant you are of debt, because the bill only comes due sometime in the future. And as you become more somebody capable only of relating to the present, not the future. You literally don't feel the imperative of what's coming down the road in the future." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Rabbi talks about how the culture is creating stronger and more independent women. He goes on to explain on how we are seeing a rise in financially independent women is great, but they are also looking for a successful marriage as well, plus the types of men that they are looking for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This show is all about these five big questions: Am I making excuses for this famous politician’s son who left his wife and took up with his older brother’s widow? Aren’t strong and independent women the ideal we all aim for? How could women whose firemen husbands survived 9-11 also have become victims of that terrible Tuesday? Does the Bible really say sleeping with one’s sister is disgraceful? What if any lessons does all this teach us about our own marriages today? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Not all fights are fair. Why liberalism/leftism otherwise known as the religion of secular fundamentalism has the advantage. Does this mean that Judeo-Christian Biblical-based civilization will ultimately lose? One side says, “Vote for us and we’ll give you lots of stuff. And we’ll remove all the rules, restrictions, rituals and restraints that maintain society’s repressive institutions.” The other side can only say, “Vote for us, we’ll get out of your way and you can make of your life what you will.” Why companies making electric cars are reckless investments. Why you should trust yourself rather than experts and studies. How Secular Fundamentalism came to dominate America and why it rejects reality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rabbi Lapin shows how political correctness is like landing on an island without civilization and the local people take you cautiously into the tribe. They find you odd when you do things that are normal but are not normal to them and arguing with the local witch doctor about the customs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oroville Dam will not burst, but its spillway might collapse. Why wasn’t it built right in the first place? Why hasn’t it been maintained? Can governments really suffer from moral failings? Using water to cut metal gives us an idea of its power. Is maintaining your possessions a religious duty incumbent upon all Jews and Christians? Is it ‘wrong’ to acquire ‘stuff’? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The rabbi talks about why you should never use the weather for political gain and what is happening at the Oroville Dam in California and how the "experts" were wrong when they said it will never reach the emergency spill zone. He also talks about how dams work and their functions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everyone wants a Marvelous, Mysterious, Magical and Magnificent marriage! We don’t want a kind and considerate roommate. We don’t want a hygienic socio-economic partner. We don’t even want a cook, housecleaner-take-out-the-garbage-fixer-upper-fight-off-the-burglars-and-walk-the-dog, live-in tenant. No, we want the sexiest words in the English language, a husband or a wife. But that arrangement is only possible between a man who is masculine and a woman who is feminine. The problem is that for years we’ve all been bombarded by an incessant barrage of propaganda teaching women to be more like men, and directing men to be less like men. Is there a solution? Can a 4M marriage really be created? Yes! that is why you have a rabbi with the Manufacturer’s Instruction Manual! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Rabbi talks about how relationships between man and wife, using a new car manual to explain today's cultural expectations of a marriage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Christian missionaries brought democracy to Africa. Dr. Livingstone I presume. How religion’s Biblical values can build nations as well as people. Why I rode a motorcycle through Africa in 1969 and how I watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. Impulse control is really useful to build a successful life. Parents must model and teach it early. No impulse control? No problem; you now have a mental disability. Take two tablets and shoot me in the morning. The disastrous Boston Big Dig took 25 years and cost ten times more than planned. California’s Big Creek hydro project continues still today to supply 1000 megawatts of electricity to Los Angeles. It was built under budget and under schedule—back in 1910. One reason America may never build big projects again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you need a rabbi to get you through these tough political times, I am who you need. You should trust someone that knows how things work and can guide you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 1981 film, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" involves Nazi Germany sending a team of archaeologists to the Holy Land to uncover the holiest relic of the Jewish faith, the Ark of the Covenant. This film is more than just the work of Hollywood's creative minds, however, as Hitler really did have great interest in the holy relics of ancient times. Also, is the Holy Spear currently housed in Vienna real? And are there subliminal religious messages in another Steven Spielberg masterpiece, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How in heaven’s name did a 19th century Polish rabbi predict, in detail, Marconi’s invention of wireless? Spielberg’s movie ET was really a Christian movie? C’mon, really? Next you’ll tell me that Raiders of the Lost Ark was a documentary. Well, er…yes! Hitler’s obsession with the occult and why Israel bans the music of Richard Wagner. Yes, beautiful music can carry a hideous message. C. S. Lewis, his real religion, his Jewish wife, and best books. An ordinary rabbi meets the world’s greatest musicologist---who didn’t know he was Jewish. The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings? Jewish? What! You didn’t know? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The inaugural speech was vintage Trump. It was familiar and reassuring. But we must understand why such intense personal hostility towards Trump. Why do people (mostly men, because women find transcendence in other more obvious activities) engage in far more intense and extreme activities than they did a hundred years ago? Why is life somehow more satisfying for people taking care of a spouse and children even with the inevitable frustrations and limitations? Climate change doesn’t exist.www.RabbiDanielLapin.comAncient Jewish Wisdom TV Show http://www.tct.tv/watch-tct/on-demand-ajw Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/rabbi-daniel-lapin-show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Popular feminist culture castigated Glamor Magazine for suggesting that men are attracted to women who are loving, generous, and sexy. And magazine apologized! Why American media conceal the Moslem identity of Fort Lauderdale airport shooter. Interfaith marriages and their challenges. Perhaps best solution with Good Housekeeping’s seal of approval is women should marry—themselves! How prophecy really works and two examples of the best. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The recipe for a successful marriage between a man and a woman will never change. Want to know the secret? Give it a play! rabbidaniellapin.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Make America Great Again” resonates with good reason. Most of us can see how far we’ve fallen economically, militarily, culturally, criminally, and martially. So our best response to an act of savage and appalling cruelty is crying out, “Hate crime!”? That really the best we can do? Is granting even greater power to government the best answer? Goodbye Craftsman tools-R.I.P. The chimpanzee who composed a symphony after designing a factory--the one unanswerable challenge to the theory of evolution. I know why the plane hit the ground; do you? America can beat history’s odds like Israel is doing; I’ll tell you how. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The true life Nazi action in 1943 that inspired Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981. Yes, it’s true; Eskimo dialects do have 53 words for snow and Hebrew has many words for money. Just as money is fungible, blood is also interchangeable. Did Hassidic Jews riot in shopping centers? Are Jews disproportionately successful with money because they are circumcised? The palpable pain of being a cultural orphan afflicts huge numbers of Americans who often don’t know why they’re hurting. Three little-known facts about money that make it easier to obtain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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