Rabbi Daniel Lapin's podcast

The definition of a happy warrior and how to join our international community of Happy Warriors. Oscar Wilde and  The Picture of Dorian Gray . Do you know the cost of everything but the value of nothing? Avoid the one activity that makes your face age. The three ways in which your children can help you make more money. No, it has nothing to do with renting them out. Know the 5 things that are vita...

Not sure whether Equality or Freedom is the better value? Simple; use the Reality Test. Not sure whether women should take responsibility for their own safety? Use the Reality Test. Not sure whether every man needs a woman and every woman needs a man? Use the Reality Test. Is feminism a helpful and desirable doctrine or a destructive pathology? Simple; use the Reality Test. Read the details in thi...

Co-hosted with Susan Lapin. If you cannot play tennis, your life can still be good. If you can't sing, play a musical instrument, or tell jokes, your life can still be wonderful. But there are five distinct things that are vital for every successful and happy life. What is more, you cannot have 3 out of the 5. It's all five or nothing. In a  way, these five  things make up an indivisible totality...

Why hate the Jews? The honest, true, and deeply uncomfortable explanation for anti-Semitism. Two nations on one island: Haiti is desperate and hopeless. The Dominican Republic is vibrant and successful. What is the difference? Whenever you hear concern about "The Children" know that you are being powerfully and emotionally  manipulated for political purposes.  More Jews had to leave Arab lands tha...

Hey, women, stay away from universities! How to ruin your life in 3 easy steps. The most ignored problem in all of scientific research and nobody knows the answer. Where are you on the Flamboyant Life Force--Darkest Death spectrum line? How to improve every important aspect of your life by utilizing the fact that we are all attracted to vibrant life and a little repelled by death. Get the hang of...

Here is today's life-changing principle: How you view tomorrow impacts your life today. The difference between selling coffins and selling cradles. Let the destructive patterns of your background end with you. Deploying the positive feedback loop of Optimism, Money, and Marriage. Tell me what you wish you knew when you were twenty years old. The book that makes it all happen https://bit.ly/TheHoli...

One bad idea can sabotage all the solid achievements for which you've worked so hard. A solid resolution for 2024 is to identify and eliminate the bad ideas that are threatening your success in all your 5Fs. Read about this useful tool for making the new year a better year than last year. It's called Chart Your Course  https://rabbidaniellapin.com/ product/chart-your-course- book-video-bundle/

I prefer a sacred Christmas to a secular Christmas. Secularism is not just a fair way to organize a pluralistic society. It exerts a malign influence on civilization in ways you can't imagine. A guy is really unhappy because his wife lunches with a male colleague a couple of times a week. Is his bank account relevant to this story? Why platonic friendships between men and women between the ages of...

Do you know the really unpopular message of Chanuka? That's right, it has something to do with burning oil. Why the Fossil Fuel vision seems to drag along a vision of shortage, limits, and ultimately poverty. Predictions of running out of coal and oil go back to the 19th century and they've all been wrong. Why do they keep making them? It's almost as if they WANT to run out of energy. What's going...

Many mistakenly believe that the proliferation of regulations and laws are evidence of a society's sophistication and advance. In reality, that is like saying that all the medications in an old man's medicine chest are evidence of his good health. Preserving a functioning family or a successful society is hard and mostly depends on a rare array of tools. In this show, your rabbi provides a guide t...

Do you want a good life? Do you know what a good life means? What do you have to do in order to achieve a good life? How Germany defeated France in only six weeks in early 1940. Why Mercedes and BMW are more reliable cars than Peugeot and Citroën. What this teaches us about making our lives good. Especially the connection between money and marriage. What is the purpose of physical intimacy: pleasu...

Your rabbi confesses that there are aspects of the Islamic struggle for world domination that he admires; not likes, not values, not commends and not approves, but admires. You will learn why considering this a struggle between Islam and Democracy is childish. Why Moslems fight among themselves.  Why the Palestinian issue will never be solved by a bureaucrat with a map and a pencil. Why the hideou...

In war, whether economic or military, masculine countries tend to beat feminine countries. What is gender when looking at countries and societies? Why do some societies become feminized? Why is this dangerously destructive? Is there a way to "have it all"? Read about how to integrate the different areas of your life in our new book The Holistic You. Available at your favorite bookseller now.   htt...

In this show, we answer the puzzling paradoxes in the previous show. Even the most baffling behavioral enigmas surrender to a coherent moral matrix. A moral matrix answers questions in four main areas: Family, Finance, Friendships, and Fitness. A moral matrix is not time-dependent; what was moral years ago will still be moral in years to come. Could a moral matrix emerge by itself in an isolated s...

Much of what you say flows subconsciously from your morality matrix. Many of your decisions are made based on your morality matrix. If you don't have one, you are making a whole bunch of damaging mistakes in your life. With a  proper functioning morality matrix you make far fewer mistakes and life is more joyful. With no morality matrix, or worse, a broken one, you are making decisions in finance,...

Every now and again your rabbi encounters a human being so scintillating and so insightful that every conversation is a joy. Tracey Armstrong is such a person. Quietly he has transformed the lives of so many people demonstrating genuine caring coupled with the ability to see that what works for one person is not necessarily right for another. I hope you enjoy eavesdropping on our chat as much as I...

A young man says goodbye to his father and goes off to war.  Why is this war different from every other ethnic conflict? Why can this one not be resolved by dividing the territory down the middle? Your rabbi is still in Israel. Why is the notorious Two State Solution, beloved by silly politicians, never going to be? Does Islam hate Christianity more than Christians love it? How many times has Isla...

The real purpose behind the Hamas mini-missiles. What is the atmosphere like right now on Israel's streets? What happened in my synagogue just outside Jerusalem when the sirens went off on Saturday morning. Comparing civilian mortality rates in Israel's Yom Kippur war fifty years ago with what happened on Saturday. The titanic struggle between civilization and barbarism. How long can Israel's econ...

Every now and again your rabbi encounters a human being so scintillating and so insightful that every conversation is a joy. AJ  Rice is such a person.  In his head, he carries a road map of the entire political landscape in the United States, and what is more, he gets the cultural implications. I hope you enjoy eavesdropping on our chat as much as I enjoyed the conversation. Mentioned on the podc...

Exactly fifty years ago Israel's General Moshe Dayan tried to call a press conference to announce the defeat of Israel and the end of its 25-year existence. Hear what happened. The four steps to finding your financial feet. Job. Excel. Save. Fitness. It's as simple as that, but as always, the details matter. Follow the program laid out for you in this show and your financial future will be meteori...

Dr. Naomi Wolf has been writing left-leaning provocative books and articles since she achieved fame as a feminist leader over thirty years ago.  She advised Bill Clinton on his 1996 presidential election campaign, and she advised the Al Gore/Joe Lieberman presidential campaign in 2000.  It would seem hard for Susan Lapin and your rabbi to find any common ground with her for a cordial conversation....

Now here's a question: Why do men have nipples? Oh, we all know about Y chromosomes, but really, why? Here's another: Why are male babies more fragile than female babies? What happens to a world of women, females, and feminists? What happens to a world of thugs and wimps? Why do Kenyan Masai tribesmen have initiation ceremonies for boys only? Why do Jews have bar mitzvah ceremonies for boys? Is it...

Now here's a paradox. Find the freedom to unleash all your creative potential precisely by limiting your freedom and learning how to use restriction and regulation. Why you resemble a .223 rifle round. Taking a job does rule out all other jobs and marrying someone is ruling out all the other amazing people who might be waiting around the corner. Starting a business does rule out all the other thin...

Happy Warriors are not tennis balls floating down the gutter of life but even we can inadvertently catch the contagious and destructive shortage virus. It is spread from person to person and via media, entertainment, and politics. And when you've caught it, you will start believing that we live in a world of shortage. You will prostrate yourself at the altar of recycling to prove to yourself that...

We're all attracted to self-improvement in some way, right? We want to improve our bank accounts; we want to improve our health by losing weight; we want to improve our conversational ability, our memories, our knowledge, our appearance, and much more. We love self-improvement. But we don't always know that inner improvement is the gateway to all other improvements. It is a bit like wanting to bri...