The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Why a large white llama wandered around the Lapin family’s dinner table. Why movements and organizations with no attractive young women involved are doomed. Does the animal rights movement attract young women? Are circuses, dolphin shows, and even zoos unethical? Who caused the changes in packaging for animal crackers? You don’t own your pet; you are a guardian to your animal companion. Admittedly it’s a sad choice but would you kill six bunny rabbits (or chimpanzees) in order to save the life of one child?  Not everyone agrees. You do not have to accept my definition of ethics.  The very real political peril caused by the animal rights movement. Toilet paper is unethical, really!

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The powerful attractions that most of us feel towards both physical intimacy and money are really no more than the two components of the force of attraction.  Both the pleasure of sensual fulfillment and the pleasure of acquiring money are attained only with the participation of another person.

 

Do you know anyone who doesn’t want to have more money? Do you know anyone who doesn’t want to have a joyous marriage and fulfilling family life?  There may be one or two outliers, but almost everyone we know, and we bet this is true for you as well, would like more income and great relationships. Just like making delicious omelets or performing delicate brain surgery, knowing exactly what you’re doing makes a successful outcome more likely.  And key to that is wrapping yourself around the shocking idea that male-female relationships and money are really just two sides of the same coin. How the Obama years indoctrinated millions of good people with bad ideas and infected them with destructive life strategies from which escape is almost impossible.  But there is one trapdoor.

 

In seeking marriage and money, most of us tend to separate the searches. We might go to the business section of the bookstore for one and the relationship section for the other. When the two do intersect, they are often at odds with each other. Will getting married interfere with my work? Will my work make my spouse resentful? Unify, resolve and connect. 

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Never mind Harry Potter, but is making money ‘stinking sorcery’?   Hey Kids!  It’s easy to describe the hard work your dad does if he’s a bus driver, a fireman, or a pilot.  But what if he’s a mortgage broker,  a recruiter, or an investment banker?  Does he make money by just talking on the phone all day? Sounds like fun. LeBron James plays basketball and Ron Johnson built the Apple stores in all the malls. Each made about $30M a year. Why did so many people say Ron Jonson was overpaid at Apple while everybody thought LeBron James earned every penny of his pay?  The spirituality of money.  Why did Los Angelinos destroy Jewish-owned stores in the Watts Riots of 1965 and then Korean-owned stores in the Rodney King riots of 1992?  What did Boeing’s Alan Mulally have that Ford so desperately needed? 3 effective spiritual strategies for increasing your financial revenue.

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I’ve spoken about the kinds of men that women should seek and avoid but now, the reverse.   Do you know why, in the romance department, Cinderella is a little more true-to-life than Aladdin?  Guys, should you worry if your wife’s boss is rich and good-looking?  How about if he’s just rich?  What do you do if your wife decides she doesn’t want to work but would rather stay home with your babies?  What about if she does want to work but wants you to stay home with the babies?  Are her looks important?  Matrimonial misery versus connubial contentment. 

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How a country’s economy controls its military abilities.  The most important rule you’ve heard today: Reality is more accurately depicted by a video than by a snapshot.  Hitler wasn’t a lunatic-at least not at first.  His willingness to make war against England was quite logical.  This show explains why.  It also explains why China could one day become a real threat to America while Russia’s population and economy make it all but incapable of seriously imperiling any American interests.  Genuine education vs inflated qualifications and meaningless degrees in pseudo-subjects. Why citizens of Israel produce far more wealth than those of United Kingdom,  France, Japan, Italy, S. Korea and Taiwan.  Why many Americans fail to feel the boundary between verbal altercation and physical violence.

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China threatens American military interests in South China Sea & American economic interests internationally.

Iranian nuclear aggressiveness threatens American interests in the Middle East and elsewhere. 

The illegal invasion of America by Middle Easterners, North Africans, and South and Central Americans threatens to overwhelm hospital emergency rooms, the welfare system, and the criminal justice system. 

 

Yet to the Left, none of these threats matter.  Why is Russia the only danger they scream about hysterically?  Why was Russia no threat during the Obama years?

Why did Justice and the FBI indict 12 lower level Russian hackers who will never see the inside of a U.S. courtroom exactly a few hours before President Trump met Mr. Putin in Finland?  The American intelligence community spied on candidate Donald Trump in 2016  and reported to President Obama and Hillary Clinton.  Of course, President Trump doesn’t trust them.  Why should he?

 

Why other countries’ “human-rights abuses” are none of America’s business.  Thomas Friedman embarrasses me by promoting globalism and environmentalism in the New York Times by using Hebrew words!  Yes, NATO is becoming an anachronism. They wouldn’t help us if we came to blows with China.  And does NATO really need a new building in Brussels, as large as the Pentagon?  Your rabbi explains what is REALLY going on.

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Does America really care about little children?  For more than 8 days, the world held its breath over the plight of 12 young boys stranded in a cave in Northern Thailand.  Why no equivalent empathy for the more than 50 young American boys murdered by their mothers’ boyfriends in only the first half of 2018?  Why no attempt to rescue the thousands of young children at mortal peril from their mothers’ live-in boyfriends? Why no comparable concern for the many children at risk of being killed in drive-by shootings?  So we obviously don’t care about kids. Why was Thailand different?

If Black Lives Matter, why is it okay that fully 36% of all American abortions were had by black women—only 13% of all females?  The true but rare explanation.

 

High class doesn't mean 'rich'; it's living wisely that will make you and your children grow rich. Low class doesn't mean poor-it's living, for now, that condemns you & your kids to poverty. There are low-class wealthy folks & high class poor but they don't stay that way for long.  When Russia and the Soviet Union posed an existential threat to the west, liberals, progressives, and secularists excused it and blamed the U.S.  Now that the threat is China and no longer Russia, they are obsessed about the dangers of President Trump cozying up to Russia. 

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Why did the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial on the banks of the Mississippi in St Louis become The Gateway Arch National Park?  Is it because the Louisiana Purchase was really a horrid event?  

 

The Left wants to progress constantly.  Socialism wants change for its own sake.   What would America have to look like for progressives to want to preserve?  If America acceded to all of the Left’s demands, would they then become conservatives?  Community Organizer &  Activist are not job titles that Lewis and Clark would have understood.  Politicians! Please stop changing our world and promising us Utopia.  We just need you to preserve the framework of predictability in our lives.   

 

Jews and Christians both believe in a perfect Messianic tomorrow.  So do progressives; but there’s a big difference.  

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“You two have lovely hearts!” she told us.  But she couldn’t have known that.  What’s more, it’s irrelevant.  What mainly matters for people to be able to live & function together,  is not our hearts and thoughts but how we behave.  The motives of muggers & murderers don’t matter. Their behavior does. The reasons robbers rob and rapists rape is largely irrelevant.  But since you ask, I do happen to know why young men commit these hideous crimes. The answer is simple: Because they wanted to.  Being able to resist our wants and desires takes character and GIC’s abandoned teaching character half a century ago. Successful management of the Imperial Roman Empire, the Nazi’s 3rd Reich, and Islamic Jihad. 90% of violent crime committed by which 13% of the population? 

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Is America headed up or down?  Is our discontent with our leaders because we see them working in their own interest, not in ours or just because we are deplorables?  Is our distrust in the FBI, the IRS, the Veterans Admin., the USPS, and Amtrak because of rampant bureaucratic & political corruption or just because we are paranoid?  Does our gloom and pessimism obscure all the wonderful indicators of progress—teachers now getting paid well, even the poor have smartphones and air-conditioning, inequality going down, life-expectancy up, and increasing numbers of young people choosing selfless careers in government.  The great Roman Empire is now nothing but ruins. Why America is not similarly headed to inevitable oblivion.  Don’t forget the cobra eggs.

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