Rabbi Daniel Lapin's podcast

1.    We broke up weeks ago so she'll be okay with me dating her roommate now. 2.    My GF/BF is having dinner with her/his ex but it's nothing, they're just friends. 3.     Everyone has one true soulmate somewhere and my purpose in dating is to find him/her. 4.    You'll always recognize true love. 5.    No, he doesn't have a job but he can get one anytime he wants. 6.    I know he says he's not...

Just try make a movie or write a book in which the terrorists are Moslems and you'll have CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) to deal with. Just try depicting a money-loving character in your movie as a Jew and you'll feel the weight of the ADL (Anti Defamation League of Bnai Brith) drop on you like a bag of cement. Depict African-Americans or Italian-Americans badly and you'll instantly...

Why the number of mentally ill in America just keeps climbing. Who said "If you will not have God, you should pay your respects to Hitler and Stalin"? Let's talk truthfully about mass shootings. First of all, unlike familicides or felony-related homicides, they are almost always suicidal. Why are  the perpetrators nearly always white men? Yes, they mostly involve firearms, but now let's seriously...

Rabbi Daniel and Susan Lapin converse over breakfast about the General Patton Principle. This explains why the most effective person to solve a particular problem may not be the most gentle, refined and polite person. General Patton and his 3rd Army beat back the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge in January 1945. But his tirades were often vulgar and profane. Yet not only did the men under his co...

Won't ya let me take you on a sea cruise? Johnny Rivers 1974 and Rabbi Daniel Lapin 2020.  The only 3 permanent principles you need to make sense of Robert Mueller's testimony on Capitol Hill. More news on Secularists Anonymous, my 12 Step Program for recovering secularists. Seriously, guys, it's no longer 1859 or even 1972. It's time to get over it. A secular world view is just a failure. For ins...

Do you know the name of your most valuable employee? Do you know the name of the person most to blame for your problems and predicaments? Do you know the name of the person you are most responsible for educating and improving? Clue: All three carry the same name. Your physical characteristics: height, skin color, hairstyle, body type. Your spiritual characteristics: integrity, resourcefulness, opt...

So there was your rabbi struggling with what to name this episode. At first I thought of calling it "Even Poor People Deserve Compassion". Then I thought we'll call it "Especially, Poor People Deserve Compassion". Then I thought how about "We Love Poor People". As you can see the ideas were flowing fast and furious but I was worried about appearing to lack compassion—one of the very worst sins in...

If you liked being a happy warrior, well, I've upped the ante. It's now a little harder. It's easy to laugh when I speak about your rabbi (that would be, me!) revealing how the world REALLY works. The truth is that learning how the world REALLY works and adapting to it is immensely painful. Having our illusions shattered is always painful. The slogan is easier than the reality. How the world REALL...

Never use the word "fair". The political landscape of many countries is changing because citizens are asking their governments, "What have you done to our country?" Please allow me to teach you the hierarchy of moral obligations. What does the Biblical dictum "Love your neighbor like yourself" actually mean? I tell you about  two important books; but for your own health, tell nobody, not even your...

You'll love taking this boat trip with your rabbi. The one big lie that, if you fall for it, will utterly distort your vision of your own life. Do you know the one colossal difference that forever distinguishes humans from animals? Clue: Progressives hate it. A few fun fire facts especially for happy warriors. Why do so many feel guilty about using a lot of energy? The difference that fire made to...

Responding to a thoughtful listener's letter attacking my views on marriage as "ridiculous". Would we stand for a system that forces young people to undergo at least four years of religious indoctrination before getting on with their lives? Would we cruelly withhold jobs and employment from anyone brave enough to try and evade this brutal system of compulsory madrassas? Would we allow imams, cleri...

Responding to a thoughtful listener's letter charging me with 'bias' against Islam. After the Nazi surrender in May 1945, German youths didn't inflict terror on London and New York to avenge the destruction of Dresden and the bombing of Berlin. After the surrender on the battleship US Missouri in September 1945, Japanese youths didn't form terror teams against America to avenge Hiroshima and Nagas...

Why does liberalism and home shopping dominate television while conservatism mostly finds its home on radio? Why is liberalism the creed of emotionalism? Who has done more good for the world-Calcutta's Mother Theresa or Amazon's Jeff Bezos? Why is our balance mechanism found in our ears? Aggressive vs modesty-Why do men and women's biological structure reflect these differences? Newspapers never u...

How adultery inflicts greater pain and suffering than corporate closures and job loss. In Governmental Indoctrination Centers (GIC's) formerly known as public schools, little children are prematurely sexualized through a propaganda campaign know as Sex Education or Sex Ed. The argument is that children are "going to do it anyway" so we should teach them how to do it safely. Now, your rabbi asks, l...

The first time in human history that children knew more than their parents and how parents evade their responsibility to their children. The 25th word in the Bible, religious holidays and modern science. Surprising secrets of the casino's roulette wheel. How humans got to planet earth. If you tell me your answer to this one question, I would know how you feel about wealth & poverty, marriage, taxa...

A tragedy is something that causes suffering, distress and destruction. A terrible tragedy is a tragedy that could have easily been prevented. Ancient Jewish wisdom can prevent those tragedies. When people marry without knowledge of how the world REALLY works, it's usually just as tragic as when a pilot takes off in an airplane type for which he's had inadequate training. When people choose career...

Is everybody's work equally valuable and important? How you can tell the difference. I respect all humans who behave consistently with being created in the image of God but do I respect all career choices, occupations, and professions equally? No, of course not, and neither do you. The key things to bear in mind when choosing a career path. What athlete Usain Bolt shares with an oil rig worker and...

Many of today's problems are the result of bad choices you made yesterday. They put you in your own Egypt. Want to see the mugshot of your worst enemy? Easy—look on your driver's license. It's relatively easy to conceive a male baby; it only takes a minute or two. It's a little harder to give birth to a male baby; it can take several hours. But it is a whole lot harder to turn a male baby into a s...

Although riots slightly damaged Notre Dame Cathedral in the 16th century and the infamous French revolution inflicted a little damage in the 18th, this fire was the worst damage the beautiful cathedral has ever sustained. In reporting the Notre Dame fire, the news media ignored the many thousands of attacks, desecrations and vandalizations of European churches every year. Yes, thousands! Almost al...

The real reason that airlines have become so much more punctual in keeping to their schedules than they used to be. Has global warming expanded the American continent, pushing Los Angeles and New York further apart? Amazon and the Internet are not the only culprits killing off suburban shopping malls; a far more destructive force is imperiling the very existence of your local shopping mall. Is it...

Men who marry a moneyed maiden hoping to get their hands on her wealth deserve what they get which most times won't be good. But girls marrying guys with gold is quite different. Men who make money reveal much of their positive masculine desirability whereas a lady's bank balance reveals nothing of her feminine desirability. Why men in uniform fascinate females. Why in 1970 AMC paid $75M for littl...

Many in the Bush family, sorry I mean dynasty, with their long association with the Republican Party, admitted that they voted for Hillary in November 2016. So did dozens of other well-known journalists, pundits, policy-wonks, and political-hangers-on who had long been famous as conservative Republicans. All these intelligent people decided that Trump was so terrible that Hillary and the four more...

I was wrong last week. The 737 MAX should have been promptly grounded March 11th, 2019. Was history being written in the Ethiopian desert and off the coast of Indonesia? Sometimes history is written in just a few days. Are we witnessing the opening moves of America's slide from #1 to #2 in commercial aviation? Why would the US Justice Dept launch an almost unprecedented criminal investigation of B...

20 Questions that will help you discover if you truly know how the world REALLY works. Letters from listeners. Two Boeing airliners tragically crash; the real reason the 737 Max was grounded. Are we willing and eager to end the more than 30,000 traffic fatalities a year in the United States? It can be done, you know. How would you vote? Don't you care about people's lives? The machinery of human s...

How you answer the question that entitles this show will say a lot about whether you ever will have $5M.  What produces more happiness, fun or work? Would you accept marital advice from a man who has never lived with a woman? But you might well accept car maintenance advice from a mechanic who has never owned a car. Would you take career advice from a man who has never held a job? But you might ac...