Rabbi Daniel Lapin's podcast

Two simple but powerful strategies for you to follow in order to be taken more seriously. Do you feel that hormone blockers and radical genital surgery should be inflicted on 16-year-olds? You might just be a Reality Denier. Do you feel that the brazen robbers who ransack high-end clothing stores, jewelry stores, and luxury retailers do so on account of capitalism, racism, sexism, or poverty? You...

A white former South African and a black South African business professional get to know one another. We discuss how to educate teenagers for life success. We compare the notable success of African immigrants to America with the failure of Moslem immigrants to France.  Our chat gets interrupted by yet another of South Africa's frequent electrical outages. We explore how much more important discipl...

This important show describes how wise and stable governments do 2 things really well: they maintain the value of the currency and they protect parent-child relationships. The obvious results are strong families, stable society, and widespread affluence. Tyrannical regimes do exactly the opposite. They debase the currency, seriously eroding its value by causing inflation, and they undermine parent...

What liberalism liberates you from. Liberalism, progressivism, socialism, communism - are all the same, differing only in degree. Liberalism caught on so widely in Western universities in the 1960s because it permitted guys to sleep with their girlfriends without any marriage commitment. Why liberalism emerged indigenously and thrived in America and Europe but not in Africa or Asia. Explore how to...

Ever heard people say that people and monkeys share 98% of the same DNA? Here is the correct response to that not-altogether-untrue claim. Women's bodies produce a few large eggs while men's bodies produce millions of tiny sperm but here is the real difference between men and women. Why do two similar people who have received the same amount of money not have equal net worth? The natural world doe...

Definition of Happy Warrior. Surprising prediction of who will not be on the ballot in the United States presidential election of November 2024. What 98% of women want, but fear admitting. The difference between boys and men. What 98% of men really desire. The #1 mistake that women make. The worst feeling to give a man. The difference between a new wife and an old wife and how a wife can be a new...

Happy Warriors know that the more that things change, the more we must depend on those things that never change. Juneteenth-the execution date of Soviet spies. Answer either A or B to each of these 3 questions and discover how spiritual you really are. Explore them with someone else and discover your romantic compatibility. Something else to explore with a beloved or an intended is this: The  Last...

Why don't you get a regular "Mental" like you go to get an annual "Physical"? The secret of achieving robust mental stability and tranquility. The 2 words you should never say. The one job you get to do without any training or qualification. The journey brings more benefits to your life than reaching the destination. The real reason Holland and Ireland are slaughtering half a million cows. The thi...

Could Germany have repelled the D-Day invasion landings in Normandy?  Lessons for us today from how Germany and Japan fought World War 2. Goodbye, Pat Robertson. Frenzied fanatics without an economic base can inflict great damage on a more economically successful nation but they cannot win a war. The money really matters. Today, Boeing takes 10 days to build a B737. In 1944 America was building 10...

This show is not for tennis balls floating down the gutter of life!  This show is for Happy Warriors and Happy Warriors can benefit from being able to foretell the future. This is not prophecy; it is a subset of wisdom. Let your rabbi introduce you to ancient Jewish wisdom's effective techniques for foretelling the future. The secret is in the egg. How South African political turbulence changed th...

Divorce is everyone's business. If your neighbors divorce, it is sad for them and their family but it also reduces your property value and raises your taxes. Teenagers marooned on an island-Survival. Why is Switzerland a nicer place to live than Somalia? In exchange for power and prestige, Socialistic politicians promise gullible voters all the advantages of prosperity and progress with none of th...

In the same way that the belief system of superstitious people steers them toward holding false ideas and mistaken views, the secular belief system of materialism steers its devotees toward the mistaken belief that the Bible is a largely irrelevant piece of ancient literature filled with silly stories, mindless myths, and laughable laws. In this show, your rabbi presents five Permanent Principles...

Why is this about choosing a WIFE and not about choosing a SPOUSE? Is your rabbi a 'sexist'? Is choosing a wife a huge gamble? If you are a single woman, who would you rather marry--a 37-year-old never married single man or a divorced man of the same age? Should a wise man choose as a wife, a woman with no friends? What is more important for a married couple to share—a bed or a bank account? How t...

Shocking but important question to ask: Does mental health covering areas of anxiety, depression, gender dysphoria, eating disorders, and so on, belong as part of medicine or is it an entirely separate discipline? Does mental health and emotional tranquility fit under the Fitness category or under Faith? Is our mental equilibrium a matter of our bodies or of our souls? Our need for connection to t...

Why so many girl babies were aborted (and still are). The value of building a family. Sons carry on your name. What do daughters do that you can't live without? Choosing a spouse. What nobody teaches young people today about marriage. The Lapin Passover Seder. The invention of the Bessemer Steel making furnace. Victoria Falls in Africa. Benefits of a large family. The amazing Longfellow poem, Hiaw...

Mass hysteria is a real thing. Large numbers of people, maybe an entire society swept away by an emotional avalanche. Covid, masks, climate change, overpopulation, evil Russia must be stopped, and many more examples. The French Revolution was mass hysteria and so were the preschool sex abuse cases in the 1980s in California and Massachusetts. The fear that artificial intelligence will get sophisti...

"You can never be too rich or too thin" claimed U.S. fashion magazine "Harper's Bazaar" in 1963. The aphorism may be witty but it certainly isn't true. If one's finances have been won by ruining every other aspect of your life, the other four Fs, Family, Fitness, Friendship, and Faith, then maybe you are too rich.  And regarding being thin, of course, one can be too thin for good health. But how d...

All Happy Warriors know when they are mistakenly BEHAVING on emotions and feelings. In this show we learn how to know when we are THINKING on emotions and feelings. Just as fire can build and destroy, male female relationships can build a strong family-based society and they can also destroy society through casual encounters that cause jealousies and aggressions. Polygamy is widely practiced in mo...

Tension between erotic pleasure and reproduction in marital intimacy. If it is only about erotic pleasure, then reproduction must be thwarted. If it is only about reproduction, then why the pleasure? We used to think of doctors who sterilize young women as war criminals. Today, it is perfectly natural and perfectly normal. Enjoy the pleasure of baking and eating special Sabbath bread called Challa...

The astonishing events that occurred when the communist Sandanistas put 500 deaf Nicaraguan children in one special school in Managua. No, Agatha, I am sorry but Koko the gorilla could not speak.  And Fred, I am sorry but Kanzi the chimpanzee did not ever speak either. How did humans acquire the miracle of speech if it is not found in monkeys, racehorses, or dolphins? Oh yes, they certainly commun...

Your rabbi knows as much about cooking as a clown knows of neurosurgery. But this week he prepared spectacular cod. This remarkable fish nourished Europe for hundreds of years and then provided an economic base to the New England colonies in the 17 th and 18 th centuries. How did the Basque people of Spain and France come to dominate the cod business? What happened to the 200-pound codfish we used...

Who are our friends? Here's a bigger question: What is a boyfriend or a girlfriend? Is there such a thing as casual s*x for women? Watch out for men who have repeatedly broken girls' hearts and watch out for girls who have repeatedly had their hearts broken by men; they're dangerous. Why do earthquakes in non-western countries seem to kill more people than similar events in western countries? If h...

The difference between conceiving a baby and having a son or daughter. Respect for parents: Primitive religious relic or key to education and financial success? How making decisions closes off options. Bad parents want their youngsters "just to be happy".  A child's identity is formed by family, religion, and nation. GICs try to form a child's identity around race, class, and gender.  None of our...

How would you explain the difference between intelligence and wisdom? The story of Chesley Sullenberger. Why men are overrepresented in the top and bottom of the IQ bell curve. Can one's IQ be changed? Why university isn't the be all and end all of life. Is the IQ test predictive of certain things? How do we distinguish between areas that respond to IQ and those that respond to wisdom? Become a me...

How did the pretty five-pointed star become associated with Satanic culture? The surprising impact that money has on women's married lives. Why don't we hear much these days about overpopulation and the Zero Population Movement? The disturbing effect that over preoccupation with death has on mental/spiritual health, and what to do about it. Experts tell us that shrinking population can be correcte...