The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

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.

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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?

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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?

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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

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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.

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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

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“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.

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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.

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As surely as Judaism and Christianity nurture optimism, secularism promotes pessimism dishonestly depicting it as realism. Secularism has sacred sacraments just as Judaism and Christianity do. Secularism’s sacred sacraments? Sure: climate change; the evil of coal and oil; the good of government; the virtue, courage, and bravery of homosexuals and transgenders; and many more. Win friends and influence people by projecting optimism and getting rid of pessimism.

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