Rabbi Daniel Lapin's podcast

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...

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 j...

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 m...

I've spoken about the kinds of men that women should seek and avoid but now, the reverse. Which women should men seek and which should they avoid?  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...

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. With this show you can measure whether you're a hi quality or low quality person. 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...

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.  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 sys...

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'...

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,...

"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...

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 p...

"This was the beginning of evil, for if no man is a hero to his valet, much less can he remain a god for long in the eyes of a curious woman. Here, as in other matters, familiarity breeds contempt." I didn't realize that when the great English adventure writer Rider Haggard wrote those words, he was quoting the German 18th century philosopher Hegel, of whom in general, I don't think much but who d...

On this show, I enjoy a conversation with several listeners of the Rabbi Daniel Lapin Show.   The only thing about hosting my shows on terrestrial radio that I miss is the conversation with callers.  Otherwise, I prefer the up-and-coming podcast format.  A few weeks ago I solicited advice from tech-savvy listeners about how to incorporate your calls and today's show is the result of their generous...

Most adults who have lived a little of life, and who've survived  its inevitable heartaches and tears, deeply desire to save their children from pain. Chief among their legitimate concerns is premature sexualization. What a blessing it would be if children could avoid the intense emotional roller coaster ride of serial infatuations. (And don't for a moment surrender responsibility by fallaciously...

Do you really believe that all children born ought to have equal opportunities for successful lives? Really? And how far exactly do you want the government go in order to guarantee this? How should we guarantee the child of a drug addicted homeless woman the same shot at success as a home-schooled child from a caring intact family? Should parents be able to bequeath their assets to their children...

Three Mediterranean oceanfront countries with similar population densities, similar limited access, similar lack of natural resources. Yet, Malta and Gibraltar are thriving, happy places that attract throngs of tourists while Gaza is a dangerous and oppressive hell hole. Why? (Clue: It has nothing to do with Israel) Should countries that start wars and then lose them also lose territory? How helpf...

Here's an unexpected reversal: It's not so much that civilization developed water-borne sewerage systems as much as it's that the cultural values of cleanliness that made it imperative for certain cultures to distance themselves  from their body waste that made civilization possible. Toilets and sewage systems are more important than banks and art galleries and have to come first. Cultures that se...

Should women be allowed to vacation, exercise, and work isolated from hungry, leering male eyes? Well, while most men do not mind being gazed at by women's eyes (What! Men and women react differently to being ogled?) should men-only clubs also be allowed? How about male only sports? When little children say to an adult, "But you said the opposite yesterday", you know they got you. You've got work...

Deep down, do you harbor a horrible little suspicion that accepting most migrants or refugees, (whatever you want to call citizens of other countries who want to live in America) is more moral than building a wall or stopping them at the border in any other way? Deep down do you suspect that it is more moral to help beggars in Bombay and derelicts in Djibouti than helping your own sister? Do any o...

3 vital questions to ask the man wanting to marry (or date) your daughter. One sure giveaway that he's a loser. Hint: It has to do with his mom. A scary interview with an intensive care hospital nurse. "If civilization was left up to women, we'd still be living in grass huts." What sexist male pig said that? It's also true that there are more female fetuses aborted than male. By their feminists mo...

What really distinguishes liberalism from conservatism. Holding your own baby for the first time matters to all people in all places at all times. Tennis and marshmallows do not. Feeling hope as the sun rises is something all humans everywhere have always known. Riding a rollercoaster ride is not. Ancient Jewish wisdom's take on Scripture is that it covers everything that is applicable to all peop...

Only about 20% of self-identifying American Jews believe in God and regard His Torah as authoritative. And the rest? What do they believe? Is it true that some parts of American Jewry are viewed as the circumcised wing of the Democratic Party? Why is so much American entertainment Jewishly flavored? This is not true for movies and TV programming from England or France. Is this observation anti-Sem...

Today's worst insults and most indicting criticisms: It's old fashioned; it's not modern; it's archaic; it's outdated; it's so yesterday. Many mistakenly believe that any idea not sufficiently progressive is automatically false and wrong. But what if some old ideas are actually true and right? Learn to judge the value of an idea regardless of its vintage. And talking of older ideas with tremendous...

Is it because the Jews convinced the Romans to crucify Jesus? No; many who hate the Jews also hate Christianity. Is it because of Jews like Saul Alinsky, George Soros, Bernie Sanders, Sigmund Freud, Herbert Marcuse and many others? Partially, perhaps, but many who hate the Jews have never heard of these men. Why is it that Jew hatred seems to go hand-in-hand with communism, progressivism, socialis...

This show is about the magical ten years in a man's life; ages 13—23 years-old. These are the years in which subsequent success in life is rooted and, sadly, the years in which the origin of future failure can be found. Here are the step-by-step success strategies that a young man should follow for positioning himself for everything good in life. The show is not about the importance of being cool....

America's bizarre distinctions in how two human appetites are treated—sex and money. With sex, anything that two consenting adults chose to do is viewed as nobody else's business. Anything at all! With money, even if two consenting adults agree to a certain job at a specific hourly rate, the government steps in to insist that employer must pay employee a minimum amount. With sex, if one party deci...