The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

About 400 attendees in Chicago this past week, each invested $69 to attend a speech about whether making money is a moral and dignified activity for good and decent people to pursue. A key theme in my presentation is the explanation of why growing numbers of Americans believe the answer is a resounding “No!” Even more significant is the antidote. It was a high-energy, fun and uplifting evening and I felt this to be an important enough topic to share with you even though the audio quality is not quite as high as we here at The Blaze like it to be. I hope you agree.

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The spiritual significance of professional wrestling and Steven Spielberg’s 1982 movie, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. What conspicuous zippers on women’s clothing is really saying—to men! Women are interchangeable with men on nuclear submarines and in desert combat. So, why not on the golf course and tennis court? Could it be because America take sports more seriously than the military? What true thing did Hitler, Churchill and Mark Twain say about Jews?

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It’s not a coincidence that the freeway overpass collapsed, a broken gas main ignited and a ruptured water main became a geyser. It was the earthquake you slept through. Similarly, we all slept through a gigantic cultural earthquake back 1955—1965. What this colossal cultural upheaval was and how it indoctrinated America to short term thinking. Today’s pleasure is much more compelling than tomorrow’s inevitable pain. Once we recognize the enemy that brought a once-great nation to its knees, we can defeat it and rise again.

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America is suffering from a serious disease. It’s true; in every generation people grumble about how the whole country has ‘Gone to hell in a hand-basket’ and about ‘How much better everything was twenty years ago.’ And they were often right. But now is different. Now by every important measurable indicator that I describe things are worse than ever before. But this is good news; for 2 reasons: (i) When you know the problem, you’re half way to its solution. (ii) It’s not five different causes inflicting all the pain; It’s one single underlying cause and all the different problems are just different symptoms of the same disease.

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Can America come back from the precipice? Has any nation as far in decline as ours ever come back? Ancient Israel and its similarities to modern America. Marriage makes the woman; a child makes the man. Fixing foreign policy. Improving the economy. Eliminate paralyzing rules of engagement, increase funding and make the military strong again. Terminate Dept. of Education, teachers’ unions and all entitlement programs. Close the borders to all immigrants for at least 10 years. Replace bad slogans like “Income Inequality” with good ones like “No man is entitled to any other man’s money.” None of the above is as revolutionary as was Obamacare. It’s all doable.

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Why the president and his lackeys say ISIL while everyone else says ISIS. How this administration sends secret messages to the Arab street. How and why our international airports, once symbols of America’s economic prestige and technical prowess, have become 3rd world bus stations. What twisted morality decrees that doctors must treat the terrorist before they treat his victims? Remember equal pay for equal work? Well now it is equal pay for unequal work. I love women but I can’t afford to hire someone whose priority is her kids and pay her the same as I pay the guy whose priority is his job. What’s happening on American college campuses is coming soon to your neighborhood.

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Heaven knows there’s much to worry about. China. Isis. Russia. The Supreme Court. The National Debt-$20 Trillion and growing. Being governed, regulated, and tormented by unelected bureaucratic agencies. One third of all Americans not working-How they eating? By the sweat of your brow. The Veterans Administration. The TSA. The IRS. Growing governmental arrogance. The elections. Women on submarines and in combat. Trump might win. Trump might not win. Like I said, much to worry about. So discover how to focus on and improve your life first. All else can easily distract.

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Why both new marriages and new businesses fail at approximately the same rate. What does water skiing have to do with marriage? Your radio rabbi’s radio-building youth—remember Crystol Sets? Why the rabbi and his wife, Susan, are so utterly different from one another. Why do you think our uniqueness as individual humans is imprinted upon our fingertips? Could it have anything to do with fingers being a symbol of human creativity? The most persuasive reason for why same-sex marriage is not as beneficial as normal marriage.

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Why in these days of easy hook-ups does prostitution still flourish? Learn to draw reliable, evidence-based conclusions rather than having your emotional advocacy overwhelm your analysis. Why did actor Hugh Grant lose model Elizabeth Hurley in favor of a $50 prostitute in 1995. Why did N.Y. Governor Elliot Spitzer lose his marriage and career in 2008 by becoming client #9 for Madam Ashley in room 851 of Washington DC’s Mayflower Hotel? Why so many surviving firemen of the NYFD divorced their wives after 9-11. What is your priority; kids or husband? Platonic friendships? Yeah, right! What we all need to know about getting married, staying married, and really being one flesh.

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Why can’t America defeat the 12th Century culture of our Muslims tormentors? On the night before the Normandy Invasion in June 1944, General George Patton spoke to his troops. “Americans play to win all the time. That’s why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war.” Up until that date he was right. At his Inaugural Address in January 1961, President Kennedy promised, “we shall pay any price, bear any burden…to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” Really? Like when we fled Vietnam? Like when we left Iraq a bigger mess than it was when we first went there? Bottom line: America never suffered a military defeat in more than 25 wars since our founding—UNTIL about 1960. Since then we’ve barely won even one. Could the cultural corrosion of that period also have castrated our capacity to win wars? Are we doomed to defeat by Muslims?

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