The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Dr. Naomi Wolf has been writing left-leaning provocative books and articles since she achieved fame as a feminist leader over thirty years ago. She advised Bill Clinton on his 1996 presidential election campaign, and she advised the Al Gore/Joe Lieberman presidential campaign in 2000. It would seem hard for Susan Lapin and your rabbi to find any common ground with her for a cordial conversation. Most of what she stood for and espoused we considered, and still do, dangerous and destructive drivel but she was always eloquent and coherent. However, we discovered some highly unusual aspects to this gutsy woman and we invited her to chat with us on this show. She graciously accepted and we greatly enjoyed the result. Now you can too. Our best book ever: The Holistic You Integrating Your Family, Finances, Friendships, Faith, and Fitness. Read about it here https://a.co/d/gx9YFF1   Naomi Wolf is no tennis ball floating down the gutter of life. Don’t you be one. 

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Now here’s a question: Why do men have nipples? Oh, we all know about Y chromosomes, but really, why? Here’s another: Why are male babies more fragile than female babies? What happens to a world of women, females, feminists? What happens to a world of thugs and wimps? Why do Kenyan Masai tribesmen have initiation ceremonies for boys only? Why do Jews have bar mitzvah ceremonies for boys? Is it easier to become a man or a woman. Explore the new book about the 5Fs The Holistic You here https://a.co/d/af1PtkN Why do we say Man Up but not Woman Up? Which world leaders are masculine and which feminine? Which are more successful? What happens to women on a dangerous desert island if there are no men? What happens to men isolated without women? Remember when men refrained from cursing if girls were around? 

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Now here’s a paradox. Find the freedom to unleash all your creative potential precisely by limiting your freedom and learning how to use restriction and regulation. Why you resemble a .223 rifle round. Taking a job does rule out all other jobs and marrying someone is ruling out all the other amazing people who might be waiting around the corner. Starting a business does rule out all the other things you could be doing. In today’s show we reveal the solution to the paradox. Read more about the incredibly effective Financial Prosperity Collection here:  https://www.wehappywarriors.com/financial-prosperity-collection?seg_id=01GD41TEC123FMDH3CT92WHQ9D.12051.1693537083366 For the first time, I interview the charismatic creator of the Christian Coalition, Ralph Reed. He changed American politics forever and today he tells me his views on the 2024 presidential election. Freedom is just another word for….Happy Warriors are not tennis balls floating down the gutter of life. Instead they grab life and find joy. 

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Happy Warriors are not tennis balls floating down the gutter of life but even we can inadvertently catch the contagious and destructive shortage virus. It is spread from person to person and via media, entertainment, and politics. And when you’ve caught it, you will start believing that we live in a world of shortage. You will prostrate yourself at the altar of recycling to prove to yourself that without recycling, we’re doomed because of shortage. You will buy a smaller car than you really want, not because you can’t afford anything else but because you believe we are short of oil and energy. You will keep your summer air conditioner set too high for comfort to save electricity. That is only part of what catching the shortage virus can do to your life. The worst part is that you make less money than you should and can.  Fight financial shortage by learning about the Financial Prosperity Collection here:  https://www.wehappywarriors.com/financial-prosperity-collection?seg_id=01GD41TEC123FMDH3CT92WHQ9D.12051.1693002435165  Worried about inflation? Yes, it’s real but the solution is banish shortage and make more money by deploying the strategies you will learn in this resource. 

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We’re all attracted to self-improvement. In some way, right? We want to improve our bank accounts; we want to improve our health by losing weight; we want to improve our conversational ability, our memories, our knowledge, our appearance, and much more. We love self-improvement. But we don’t always know that inner improvement is the gateway to all other improvement. It is a bit like wanting to bring in a gardener, a landscaper, and a tree specialist to improve our yard but keeping the gate locked so none of the workers can enter. Opening the portal to self-improvement is what Mussar is all about and my guest on this show, Ruchi Korval is a specialist in the ancient Jewish practice of Mussar. This is her book  https://rabbidaniellapin.com/product/soul-construction/ Happy Warriors will like her take on Barbie the movie. Can you improve the world by improving yourself? Must you forgive yourself before forgiving others? Happy Warriors are not tennis balls floating down the gutter of life. 

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Two simple but powerful strategies for you to follow in order to be taken more seriously. Do you feel that hormone blockers and radical genital surgery should be inflicted on 16-year-olds? You might just be a Reality Denier.  Do you feel that the brazen robbers who ransack hi end clothing stores, jewelry stores, and luxury retailers do so on account of capitalism, racism, sexism, or poverty? You just might be a Reality Denier. Do you feel that governments can spend whatever they like because they can always print more money? You might just be a Reality Denier. Ryan might or might not be a Reality Denier but he is a young man who wrote me explaining why he has chosen to keep women out of his life. Is Ryan going to become a priest? Not even close. Ryan doesn’t like the women he meets on the Internet dating site, Tinder. His alternative is celibacy, and he thinks that is just fine. I answer Ryan on this show. Ryan would find useful life perspectives here.  https://rabbidaniellapin.com/product/buried-treasure/  So will you. Canada’s Prime Minister is a Reality Denier. He thinks that families survive divorce. Men do. Women can. Children might but families do not. Ryan thinks that over 30$ of married women cheat. Ryan is wrong. Very wrong. 

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A white former South African and a black South African business professional get to know one another. We discuss how to educate teenagers for life success. We compare the notable success of African immigrants to America with the failure of Moslem immigrants to France. Our chat gets interrupted by yet another of South Africa’s frequent electrical outages. We explore how much more important discipline is than motivation. The importance of contracts and how Dubai handles foreigners.  

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This important show describes how wise and stable governments do 2 things really well: they maintain the value of the currency and they protect parent-child relationships. The obvious results are strong families, stable society, and widespread affluence. Tyrannical regimes do exactly the opposite. They debase the currency, seriously eroding its value by causing inflation, and they undermine parent-child relationships. The obvious results are fewer people living in families, more dependency on government, more crime, dysfunctional bureaucracies, lowered lifestyles and increased poverty, more mental illness, and a declining society. Why would they do that? To remain in power of course, silly. Surely you knew that. As many as 1 in 4 American adults are estranged from a parent. I explain whether there is more estrangement from fathers or from mothers and why. The most popular tattoo in prison and why. Exactly why boys raised by moms married to dads stay out of jail. Become a Happy Warrior. Find out more https://www.wehappywarriors.com/  Why marriage is more comfortable for women than for men. Why American public education encourages sexual mutilation among young students. Why statues were destroyed? Learn to see the future. 

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What liberalism liberates you from. Liberalism, progressivism, socialism, communism, all the same, differing only in degree. Liberalism caught on so widely in Western universities in the 1960s because it permitted guys to sleep with their girlfriends without any marriage commitment. Why liberalism emerged indigenously and thrived in America and Europe but not in Africa or Asia. Explore how to become a Happy Warrior   https://www.wehappywarriors.com/  The great and valuable secret of how to change the way you feel about anything or anyone. The male equivalent to how women who hold, touch, and smell babies experience physiologically measurable surges of hormones. Watch a free episode of Scrolling Through Scripture  https://tinyurl.com/4wv6r46e  Why so many women waste their best years of beauty and fertility. Why so many men make life mistakes from which there is no coming back. The one thing not explained by evolutionary biology. 

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Ever heard people say that people and monkeys share 98% of the same DNA? Here is the correct response to that not altogether untrue claim. Women’s bodies produce a few large eggs while men’s bodies produce millions of tiny sperm but here is the real difference between men and women. Why do two similar people who have received the same amount of money not have equal net worth? The natural world does not produce much equality. There are not even two identical electrons. But secular fundamentalism focuses on equality. Equal is demonstrably impossible. Do you want to live a life of freedom, tranquility, and prosperity? What is a bigger threat to you—Income Inequality or Family Breakdown? Seriously. Listen and think. Do you want to know why politicians are promising to fight income inequality so fiercely right now? Does living among people who have more money than you (or less) make you miserable? How many times do you think the word “Equal” is found in the Five Books of Moses? If you love knowing how the world REALLY works, become a Happy Warrior. Discover the Bible’s first progressive. Happy Warriors are not tennis balls floating down the gutter of life.

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