Rabbi Daniel Lapin's podcast

If we were each alone and isolated, every one of us would languish, wither, and perish. Only by human cooperation can we all together build an interactive economy in which we each can thrive. Here are the only two ways to organize human cooperation: One, build a dictatorial tyranny in which you promise the peasants security and equality but never actually delivers. Keep them constantly divided int...

You may not know it, but your rabbi knows that you probably help humanity every day. Do you realize that you probably enhance the lives of your fellow citizens every day? Are you a saint? No, of course not. It's just that money is one of the only two areas in which while you try to help yourself, you are actually also helping others. Is money physical or spiritual? The explanation will surprise yo...

Hey single men! Have you ever wanted to propose marriage to your future wife but been lost for words? Your rabbi to the rescue. In this show, a sample proposal speech you can use to start the rest of your life. No need to struggle for the right words. No need to be embarrassed as you stutter your way through some trite, overused formula. No, sound like the man you wish you were! She'll be thrilled...

Why do you dress differently in the morning if you are staying home alone from how you'd dress if you're going to be seeing many people? Are you more comfortable in 'fashionable' clothing than in utilitarian coverups? You might consider an adventure vacation, right? Swim with the sharks in South Africa? Sure. See penguins in Antarctica? Why not. How about a week at a nudist resort in Jamaica? That...

You thought that if people are 'religious', they must be devotees of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, or Hinduism, right? Wrong! Here are 3 important requirements of a religion.  (A) It links you to something bigger than you.  (B) It links you to many other people.  (C)  It requires you to offer sacrifices.  As your rabbi explains in this show, there are many, many more religions than those...

Are we all logical, thoughtful human beings when it comes to money? The rising price of Tesla stock would suggest no. The $700,000,000 that smart investors sunk into Theranos would also suggest that for most of us, emotions seriously impact our financial decisions. What is more, we are also susceptible to mass hysteria. That's right; mass hysteria—when many people come to believe passionately with...

If you want to know how the world REALLY works, you must understand the counter-intuitive parts of life. Is it true that the better you know someone before marrying them, the better chance the marriage has of surviving? Should you postpone making an investment until you are 100% sure? Do you know what lies beyond the furthest star in the universe? What! You don't? Edgar Allan Poe wrote The Raven w...

This show is for Happy Warriors not for Tennis-Balls-Floating-Down-The-Gutter-of-Life. Every Happy Warrior repeatedly proclaims "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." The "New York Times" published an article entitled 'The Secrets of Jewish Genius' which discussed the oft-noticed reality that an identifiable demographic numbering about 1/10 of one percent of the world's populat...

Do you try to be a moral person? That question makes no sense without some description of the moral framework in use. For some moral frameworks, slitting the throats of airline stewardesses and turning airplanes into flying bombs is a moral act. For other moral frameworks, the most moral act you can perform is driving an electric car. Self-righteous "climate activists" are just as smarmy as hypocr...

Yes, I am of the view that male/female distinction is as fundamental and as important to the human experience as the distinction between light and dark and between good and evil. If that makes me a 'sexist', so be it. If a woman must choose between having beauty or self-confidence, which should she choose? If a man must make the same choice, which should he choose. In the show I present a 12 Days...

When children bring their girlfriends and boyfriends to family gatherings. Some things are true for all times and all places. Travel and transport is an eternal human reality. Always has been and always will be. Everywhere. They may not have had Concorde airliners, Cadillacs or canoes, but they did have camels.  And that is exactly what the camel represents throughout the Hebrew Bible. Money is an...

C'mon admit it. You have noticed that the majority of the names leading the congressional crusade against President Trump are Jewish. Is this an anti-Semitic observation? No, it's true. And remember, any defamatory statement that is true reflects badly upon the subject of the infamy. Do you know how many secularized Americans of Jewish ancestry serve currently in the U.S. Congress? Do you know how...

With opinions, be conciliatory if you wish, but it's fine to be firm about facts. Remember, reality is ruthless. People do need to eat and our nature is to get as much to eat as possible with the least amount of effort. Some call that efficiency and the most efficient way of getting food is by interacting with many others using the miracle of money. Are there any really hungry people anymore? In t...

A famous 19th century socialist assured us that marriage, money, and religion are responsible for all the problems in the world. Since Robert Owen was a socialist, we know that the truth is exactly the opposite of what he said. The best things in the world (Civilization) are due to marriage, money, and Biblical faith. Getting a garden isn't the end; it's the beginning. Now you have to maintain it...

How long would it take before a visitor to your home saw a shelf of books? Why this really matters. Want to change your actions? Simple! Change your beliefs. Your soul abhors a vacuum. Absent good beliefs, it will readily embrace bad beliefs and bad beliefs stimulate self-destructive actions. The real reason that certain courts no longer punish certain people for certain crimes. Being depraved is...

Why almost every airplane built flies reliably, almost every ship built floats, why almost all skyscrapers erected, stand, but many marriages fail and many business start-ups fail. What is going on? The five reliable rules that govern both financial transactions and marital relations. Did you know that brands and franchises depend upon spiritual factors? What are they? The secret ingredient needed...

If boys and girls are so interchangeable that boys can run, bike, and wrestle against girls, why does alcohol cause so much more havoc on girls' brains than on boys' brains? Why do far more girls deliberately cut their flesh than boys? Why does anyone cut themselves? Why do people pierce their tongues and belly buttons? The connection between the bloody observance of the Moslem cutting festival of...

The government itself, no friend of the traditional family, admits that the most dangerous place for an American child, statistically speaking, is in a home with a single mother and her boyfriend. Notwithstanding the heroic achievements of certain rare and dedicated single moms who live heroic and self-sacrificing lives. Here's a shocker: it's just about as dangerous for a child to live with his m...

The Great Greta Thunberg hoax. Inability to function in a modern economy is a far bigger threat to happy and successful living for today's 16 year-olds than is the hoax of global warming. When today's 16 year-olds are 21, 27, and 35, their problems will be finding and keeping a job, paying exorbitant taxes, and affording decent housing, not being swept away by rising ocean levels. Yet, government...

My guest, the brave and beautiful young Helga Lunenburg from Denmark came to America to warn us about politicians who tax us more and more in order to spend ever greater slices of our money on their wasteful, utopian & self-serving schemes. This bold young 16 year-old Scandinavian schoolgirl wisely warns us that our economic future is imperiled unless we lower the national deficit. She courageousl...

The luckiest husband in all Oregon. Food tastes better to a man when served by an apron-wearing woman they desire. A rabbinic request for more romance in the workplace. Women suffer depression at twice the rate of men. Really? Perhaps men just don't share their pain. Is male depression underreported? Didn't you know that depressed men tend to violence? To be happy is to embrace your gender. My own...

We all change our behavior on the basis of our beliefs not the facts we learn. Beliefs lead to feelings which are emotional—facts are intellectual. We do things because we feel like it much more often than because we know we should. Recycling is the sacred sacrament of the religion of urban atheists, Secular Fundamentalism. It is based entirely on false beliefs and not on facts. The real reason wh...

Help your children find a job or start a business and thereby make your home a nicer place.  I might not have been as entertaining as President Trump or as brilliant as Bill Gates but here's why I was a better choice as a speaker for this event. Profit is not just important, it's even more than that. Why finding your anchor liberates you. Bribed by your emotions and how they try to subvert your be...

Why you should never take notes while listening to a lecture. Why Jewish last names usually advertised their owners' occupations. Yes, a man may be somewhat more than his work, but surprisingly, not as much more as you'd have thought. The activity of work and money-making, influences women's personalities and identities far less than these things shape men. The real reason that unemployable people...

Most women want to give themselves to men they consider worthy of their surrender. What if the man of your dreams turns out to lack ambition, masculine mastery, and money-sense? The time I took a strange woman dress-shopping. Is the man you're married to now the product of your behavior over the past few years? Most women would like to be married to a man taller, smarter, and richer than they are....